What’s Your One Line Definition of Leadership?

What’s Your One Line Definition of Leadership?

Peggy McAlister recently asked this powerful question in The Leadership Circle LinkedIn Group (we utilize the Leadership Circle as our online 360-degree feedback tool) and I really liked the responses. I’m curious how you define leadership. Here are some of my...
Instagram Your Life: You Are Your Attention

Instagram Your Life: You Are Your Attention

There’s a feature in Instagram that allows you to diffuse the picture focus, thereby drawing your eye to a particular part of the picture. In doing that, objects seem more interesting, sharper, richer in colour, more interesting and even more artistic.  The fun...
How To Handle Difficult People

How To Handle Difficult People

We all run into difficult people who – like it or not – are there to teach us more about ourselves.  I know it sounds crazy, especially when all you want to do is throw a brick at someone, but people are mirrors of us and through our introspection we are...
2013 Executive Coaching Survey

2013 Executive Coaching Survey

Here’s a very interesting study done by Stanford’s Graduate School of Business on Executive Coaching. Nearly two-thirds of CEOs do not receive coaching or leadership advice from outside consultants or coaches, and almost half of senior executives are not...