It Takes The Pedal To Get You To The Medal

(continued from yesterday)
Barb was already in coaching when she came to the realization that her career trajectory needed to change course. She’d been wandering through her organization like a five year old in a puddle, yet didn’t understand why she wasn’t getting anywhere.
I told her, “If you don’t know where you’re going, how will you [...]

Courage is a decision we make every day.

To be more precise, it’s a decision we make every moment.
There are actually two kinds of courage: instinctive and deliberate. Instinctive actions are, well, instinctive….. like rescuing a child from a burning building or helping a disabled person who’s confronted by a mugger.
Deliberate courage, on the other hand, is an attitude or a frame of [...]

Home-Grown Leadership

Somewhere along the parenting path I picked up the idea to ask my children two specific questions every night as I was tucking them in:
1. What was the most fun for you today?
2. What are you most looking forward to tomorrow?
The intention behind the questions was for them to remind themselves about at least one [...]

THE CONTRACT: When to Bill it? When to Bite it?

Recently I had, shall we say, a ‘difference of opinion’ with my satellite television company (the one I won’t mention by name because my attorney warned me not to). Although I had a legitimate reason for canceling my service, they were unwilling to adjust or waive the $300 cancellation fee.
Which brings me to a rant—Cable [...]

Calling For Manners

First I left a voice mail, then an email a few days later, and then another voice mail. And so it went for three weeks while one of my major (and, dare I say, favorite) clients, failed to respond to an increasingly urgent request to connect. Did I mention that she actually needed to have [...]

A Hard Pill to Swallow?

Today my nine-year-old daughter made her first attempt at swallowing a ‘grown up’ pill. The sting that sealed her eye shut necessitated the antibiotic, and she swore she was old enough to give up liquid ‘baby medicine.’ She and I had an orientation of sorts—me giving her step-by-step instructions on how to effortlessly swallow a [...]

Taking the Lead During Crisis: Great Leaders Must Think About What They Think

Everyone needs to just calm down! You have probably noticed that, as a country, we are collectively spiraling into an emotional depression. You have probably noticed that we are simultaneously working our way into hysteria, each day’s fear mounted on the back of yesterday’s. This, of course, generates even more fear that, guess what, breeds [...]

Price vs. Values: What Does Your Integrity Cost You?

I was trained in the school of “what goes around comes around” or, in the vernacular of the moment, “The Law of Attraction.” It‘s a philosophy that has always worked for me in my personal and professional life, and it is one that I share with my coaching clients, during keynotes and just about any [...]

Ain’t Misbehavin’…… Oh, yes you are!

We can be an embarrassing lot, us Americans. We confuse sex with intimacy, romance with relationship, lies with leadership and democracy with….. well that’s for another blog.
I have a fierce love and loyalty for my country. I have a loathing for the scandals that now occur more than once in a while. While I’m in [...]

Passion or Profit?

I recently returned from an international women’s conference where I met with one of the nation’s top marketing strategists. During our meeting I outlined my current business objectives with her. The Cliff Notes version: I am utterly devoted to helping women empower themselves; to helping them step into their own unique style of leadership.
When [...]

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