I recently asked acoustics expert David Greenberg what the greatest concert hall is. He quickly replied, “For what?” He went on to explain that different venues are better for certain types of performances. When you think about the best way to communicate with your team, ask yourself, “To do what?” Concert halls designed to accommodate [...]
How Leaders’ Communication Styles Impact the Delivery of Results
January 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Fear, Pride, Beaurocracy
October 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I'm on the last legs of a series of workshops in Asia that have taken me to China, Malaysia, Singapore, and India over a relatively brief period of time. All of these countries are doing relatively well as barriers of fear, pride, and beaurocracy are being overcome, managed, or relaxed. Yet, they'd do even [...]
Derek Jeter has a good day
July 10, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Positive Misdirection Instills Confidence
July 6, 2011 By Leave a Comment
There’s a powerful model here in Sail to Prevail's Paul Callahan's moves from event to community to confidence to achievement. Follow this link to read the full article in Forbes. In any new leadership position, this model can be used to secure an early team win. Event Start with an event you can rally [...]
Strategy in Action
May 20, 2011 By Leave a Comment
This week we ran our 25th CEO Boot Camp since CEO Connection started in 2005. Great group of CEOs and speakers discussed transformational leadership, stewardship, human capital, and communication. A couple of themes seemed to cross the modules. The importance of strategy On one level, everyone knows how important it is to have a [...]