by Brad Herbert | Aug 17, 2014 | Development, Recruitment
Deepak Chopra says the ultimate goal of life is love (I’m paraphrasing). Giving love, receiving love, and experiencing love of everything around you (i.e,. appreciation). Sola Fiedler is a superb example of someone getting to spend the majority of her...
by Brad Herbert | Aug 16, 2014 | Development, Recruitment
What’s your life purpose? What do some things just come naturally to you, and are you using those gifts for a broader, noble purpose? I believe each of us is here to love and to share our gifts generously to make the world a better place. When I...
by Brad Herbert | Jul 5, 2014 | Development
“What I have learned, working here, is that smart, successful people are cursed. The curse is confidence. It’s confidence that comes from a lifetime of success after real success, an objectively great job, working at an objectively great company, making a...
by Brad Herbert | May 28, 2014 | Development
Marshall Goldsmith is a very wise Executive Coach who works with the CEOs of the world’s largest companies. He’s also funny and very humble and I find his advice quite smart. Take a look at his blog article on why coaching clients give up. I have...
by Brad Herbert | Apr 28, 2014 | Development, Recruitment
Brian Chesky, Co-Founder of AirBnB, wrote a great piece on Medium recently entitled “Don’t Fuck Up the Culture” and I really love how he explains and celebrates the importance of culture. According to Brian, “Culture is simply a shared...
by Brad Herbert | Mar 17, 2014 | Development
The more researchers discover about our brain, the more we realize we are wired to be social and that – if anything – leaders are radically underestimating the impact on culture and results. Daniel Goleman blogged on LinkedIn recently how leaders’...
by Brad Herbert | Mar 4, 2014 | Development
One of life’s great paradoxes is that the things that annoy us about others are often things we dislike about ourselves. The distance we create when we judge someone colours our perspective, preventing us from seeing the good in others or situations, limits our...
by Brad Herbert | Feb 17, 2014 | Development
McKinsey just published an interesting blog post about why leadership development programs fail. I think it’s an important read for any leader, especially one trying to figure out how to run the business and grow her/his people simultaneously. The metaphor of...
by Brad Herbert | Feb 7, 2014 | Development
I am a corporate culture junkie, so I always enjoying encountering authentic expressions of how things really are. Sometimes that’s via a values statement, but sometimes it’s how companies express what a great leader believes and does. A successful leader...
by Brad Herbert | Feb 3, 2014 | Development
One of the best ways to improve your health is to have lots of loving relationships with true connection and contribution. Please visit The Gottman Relationship Blog, where I really enjoyed this quote: In The Relationship Cure, Dr. Gottman says, “One...
