Authenticity: Stay True To Yourself By Following The Money! A short time ago, I was having a phone conversation with my very dear friend Shawna, We were discussing my favorite topic of late…authenticity. While we were discussing, it was clear that authenticity means that you live a life in alignment with your values. Shawna asked,…
Great Leadership is not a reward for performance … it’s a calling. Many times we find good performers who were promoted to a leadership role even though they lack the skills, talent, or most importantly, the desire to be a leader. In most companies leadership is a reward for great performance. We take our top…
How Often Do We Show Our Authentic Selves? This past Monday was Halloween and for the first time in over 20 years I was one of “those” people who didn’t pass out candy. Instead, I shut off the Malibu lights killed all the lights in the house and went out to dinner. I guess you…
I’ve learned that integrity is not about staying on the straight and narrow path 100% of the time. Your integrity is defined by the actions that you take when you’ve stepped off the path and need to get back on. Regardless of how painful it may be or how you may or may not be…
My brother Billy is an extraordinary man. For years I have watched as he’s bumped up against and then pushed through the mental challenges that he was given at birth … you see Billy is developmentally challenged. Growing up we had other words for people who are now referred to as “special needs” and because…
“You can’t always get what you want … But if you try sometimes … well you just might find …You get what you need!” The Rolling Stones Ever had the thought that you weren’t getting what you wanted? Sometimes we focus so much on what we don’t have that we lose sight of the fact…
When we are not living in alignment with our authentic selves (who we are at our core) the symptoms can show up in a number of ways in our lives. It may be boredom, burnout, depression, job hopping, relationship hopping, or simply being dead @ work. Our authentic selves are not the facade or the…
Okay so it sounds like an absurd question? And yet I was asked to answer it … today! I was filling out a survey in order to do some work with a woman I consider to be a master speaker and coach (all of us need coaches). As part of the process, I had to…
Change Can Be Hard As a consultant I have come to the realization over the years that not every company who says that they want change, really does. The reasoning varies and here’s just a few of the reasons I have observed. 5 reasons I believe that organizations don’t change: Leaders are not willing to…
We all have those times in life when you feel like you get a couple of curve balls thrown at you that brush you back from the plate and get your attention. Adversity shows up in many different ways and through a variety of situations. I try not to make these blogs personal and yet…