One of my greatest joys this last year was working with leaders at the American Nurses Association (ANA) on their grand challenge, Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation™. In every category except smoking nurses are less healthy than the average American. Yet nurses are central to our health. They work in hospitals, medical offices, clinics, battlefields, schools […]
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My office is in my home. When my kids were younger they would often come tumbling in to interrupt me and ask me for help of some kind – help with homework, help finding something – it was a bit of a problem. I had my daughter, Ruchi, make a special sign out of a
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What’s overhead and what’s essential? Find out!
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The best time to start getting ready for the year ahead is before it arrives! And a great way to do it is to ask questions that can propel you to a new level of whatever you prize most in life. Coming up with questions is the easy part, so give yourself over to
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I helped build 120 Communities of Practice at the World Bank around the globe. A Community of Practice is a group of professionals who share a profession and work together to raise the bar on their collective and individual performance. In 2016 I will extend my current effort working with CEOs to begin a new
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There are three activities that make the difference for those leaders who consistently rise to the top when it comes to career, salary, and impact. The Magic 3 are Transformative Experience Peer Exchange Strategic Reflection. I have served as an executive advisor to CEOs since 2000 and led my own CEO Peer Groups for six
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Thanksgiving is coming up here in the USA – a time where we reflect on what we appreciate about life. When most people think of miracles, they think of a binary choice. It’s either ordinary, practical or it’s a miracle, akin to magic. What they don’t realize is that there is a continuum with many
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Chris Economos did groundbreaking research in 2001 to learn what it took for a successful national movement. I am applying what she learned to help my leaders turn the world’s toughest problems into their greatest opportunities. My recent article about Chris lists the 10 elements. Find it at http://bitly.com/CEconomos
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When you prime, you are getting ready for another activity. The verb takes its name from a biochemical process in which you use a material to get ready for a polymerization process… like preparing a surface with a primer before you paint it. The idea here is that there is an step that readies for
Take a look at your role models – the people who live their lives in very special ways. They all have quirky things they do that make them both extraordinary and unusual. William Staffor, one of my favorite poets, got up at 4am so he could have time every day to write poetry without interruption.
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