People, Purpose
Last week, I was invited to speak at The Ken Blanchard Companies as part of Grand Canyon Universities’ Executive Series. The presentation was called Work On Purpose: 4 Secrets to Connect Who You Are With What You Do. I opened by telling a story about a career-changing event that happened in my car while driving to work one morning. By the end of the presentation, I’d challenged the audience to connect who they were with what they did for a living. Then I took questions. Here was Question No. 1: (more…)
Leadership, People, Purpose
Some time ago, I heard Ken Blanchard talk about intentional leadership. He described the typical scene each morning when our alarm clocks go off. (more…)
Leadership, People, Strategy Execution
We’ve all come across them. Those leaders who people naturally gravitate toward. Though it seems counterintuitive, the magnetic effect these leaders have on people is not because of how people feel about the leader. It’s because of how the leader makes people feel about themselves. (more…)
Leadership, People, Purpose, Servant Leadership
Kevin Monroe, Sheri Nasim, Dr. Tony Baron, and Larry Spears
Last week, I had the pleasure of attending the Greenleaf International Annual Conference in Indianapolis. The conference is based on the teachings of Robert K. Greenleaf who coined the concept of servant leadership in the 1960s. Servant leadership is about reversing the polarity of power. (more…)
Leadership, People
I concentrate better with music playing in the background. I especially enjoy dropping in the name of a song or artist on Pandora Radio and letting it find music with interesting similarities. Pandora happily plays whatever I’m in the mood for while I work away, until . . . I suddenly realize that the music stopped. “That’s funny,” I think. “When did I stop listening?” (more…)
