Accelerating Leadership Performance — Dec 15 Rochester Workshop

High performing organizations know excellence begins with leadership – it is essential for creating an achieving organizational mission, improving organizational performance, and creates an environment for innovation and intelligent risk taking, achievement of strategic objectives, and delivering consistently positive customer experience.  But leadership requires process and structure as well as relational skills – the head, [...]

2023-07-25T23:47:19-05:00July 25, 2023|

Excellence is About People, Part 2: Achieving Personal & Professional Happiness — PEN April 2019

In case you missed it, last month I shared 14 insights, tips, and best practices that leaders can do to create an environment that ensures workforce engagement, team effectiveness and productivity.  This month, as part 2 of the of the blog (the proverbial other side of the coin), I’ll share 14 more strategies that we [...]

2019-04-18T01:55:30-05:00April 18, 2019|

The Key to Sustained World Class Performance: Deliberate Practice — PEN July 2018

Everywhere you look, standards are rising.  In business, in sports, in education, in healthcare – really in all aspects of human and organizational achievement – what is considered world class continues to increase.  For example…   It used to take 72 hours by plane to cross the Atlantic (1913); it now takes just over six.  [...]

2018-07-23T22:10:24-05:00July 23, 2018|

Lessons in Leadership & in Life: What Puerto Rico Can Teach Us All – PEN May 2018

Imagine living without power for eight months.  That’s 241 days.  Or 5,784 hours.  I get cranky if we lose power for eight hours, let alone eight months!  But that’s what our fellow Americans in Puerto Rico have endured since Hurricane Maria, which struck the US territory September 20, 2017.  And many have endured so much [...]

2018-05-23T02:45:42-05:00May 23, 2018|

The Power of Positivity: 15 Ways to Reduce Stress & Improve Optimism, Effectiveness – PEN Mar 2018

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another,” William James, American philosopher and psychologist, 1890.  I wonder what James would think about today’s society and the mounting stresses we all face.  Little stresses, like traffic jams (didn’t have those in 1890, unless maybe you were fighting for a spot [...]

2018-03-25T20:22:02-05:00March 25, 2018|

Lessons from Uber: Leadership Always Beats Innovation

I love Uber.  Haven’t taken a cab in about three years.  The amount of innovation coming out of this entrepreneurial, rapidly growing company – and the significant and profound shift in business model for the human (and maybe non-human) transportation industry it inspired – is impressive.  Much like Amazon is transforming retail, Apple is transforming [...]

2017-06-28T18:31:12-05:00June 28, 2017|

When Great Leaders Become Good

No, this isn’t an article about the recent presidential election, though I suppose it could – maybe should – be interpreted through that lens.  It’s about the difference between good leaders and great leaders – and the imperative for us all to strive to be both.   I read two great articles on leadership recently, [...]

2016-11-29T02:57:15-06:00November 29, 2016|

The Secret Sauce of Leadership: 9 Traits that All Good Leaders Have

Leadership matters.  It’s what separates the good organizations from the bad and the great organizations from the good.  Good leadership is critical for optimizing resources, maximizing employee engagement, aligning organizational activities, and achieving and sustaining high performance.  In fact, research shows that leadership is the number one driver of superior organizational outcomes.  Or, said another [...]

2016-05-26T14:10:02-05:00May 26, 2016|
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