Your body is your primary tool for receiving information from your environment and for communicating. Take the time to build and develop peak physique for maximum leadership effectiveness.
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We all have times in our lives when we are called to do something we never would have chosen, some great turning or milestone that comes to us as a fact of life, like the passing of a loved one or an abrupt end to a job, or some other trial that throws us so
General Stanley McChrystal’s book, Team of Teams, remains one of the best books on how to transform your organization so it shifts the focus from efficiency (which remains important but not primary) to adapting to complexity and continuous change. Stories are riveting. Lessons are clearly detailed. Addresses issues that include communication, trust, moving from silos
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When I work with CEOs I use these deceptively simple 4 timelines to map what success looks like.
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Many in my family served in the armed forces and the intelligence community. While I prefer other solutions to our greatest challenges I recognize there are times when nothing less than a military response is required. I am grateful and beholden to those who step in harm’s way, on our soil or overseas, to ensure
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I am always impressed when one of my CEO clients is a facilitation buff. The results they create are consistently great because they know the how of getting people to work together. I put together a primer on facilitation recently. If you would like a free copy, drop me a line and let me know:
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A short interview with Scott Wintrip, author of recently released HighVelocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant, and his manifesto: The Competitive Advantage of a Talent Rich Organization – get your copy here. Reach Scott at Scott@ScottWintrip.com Reach me at Seth@VisionaryLeadership.com
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Peninsula Strategies’ Robbie Kellman Baxter teamed up with Seth Kahan, founder of Visionary Leadership, to co-write this article, one in a series intended to bring timely thought leadership to CEOs and executive directors who must take vision-driven action to impact their organization’s success in the face of turbulent market conditions. Silicon Valley innovators are leveraging
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Fear is probably the chief inhibitor of great performance. It shows up in many ways for a wide variety of reasons. There are two important things to know about fear: (1) It can be an appropriate response to a threatening environment, and (2) It narrows your options, focuses your actions and inhibits both possibilities and
What is most important to you? If you don’t know what you want, someone else will be happy to figure it out for you! My reflections have recently brought me across the work of George Lakoff, an unabashedly progressive cognitive linguist who studies “frame,” sets of inter-related ideas, values and words that literally inhabit our
