The Six Factors That Drive Confidence in Leaders

For the past four years, the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership has conducted an annual public opinion poll to determine the sector leaders in which Americans have the most and least confidence and the factors behind those confidence levels. The 2009 results have just been released [...]

The definition of success is changing. It’s no longer measured in dollars alone. Success is beginning to be better understood as an alignment between life and livelihood, between monetary gain and an abundance of joy, vitality and good relationships.
It is important to reach professional benchmarks and organizational goals. However, there’s a softer, more difficult to [...]

I think this comes from Hindu wisdom:
The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see its behind.
Climb anyway!

“The difference between try and triumph is just a little umph!”
~Marvin Phillips

Today is the Fall Equinox.

What needs to:
be harvested?
fall apart in your life to make compost for new growth?
root deeper?
rest?
recharge w/new color?

Across the Generations: The feminine edge
Dr. Joni Carley
In this unique time in history, we must capitalize on women’s natural inclinations toward partnership versus dominator leadership styles.

it’s a unique time in history to place higher value on the feminine voice of wisdom
it’s about balance and equanimity, not gender
the only constant is change

Women bring unique values to [...]

You are not here merely to make a living: You are here to enable the world to live amply, with greater vision and with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget that errand. – Woodrow Wilson
And entrepreneurs have always done just [...]

Success is no longer defined in financial terms alone. It’s beginning to be understood as an alignment between life and livelihood, between monetary gain and an abundance of joy, vitality and good relationships. While it’s undoubtedly important to reach professional benchmarks and organizational goals, there’s a softer, more difficult to measure, side to success. Companies [...]

Leaders take extra responsibility – that’s part of what separates them from everybody else. I find, though, that my clients are often just doing too much and it keeps them from realizing the full fruits of their labors. Sometimes it really pays to let some things fall through the cracks – it makes other people step up and it frees you for a higher yielding time investment.

It’s risky, though. I have a client who runs a non-profit organization. He’s incredibly good at what he does and the organization really leans on him. He ends up taking care of too many details and his visionary capacity is diminished. He knows that if he drops something, it may well not get picked up “on time” and his commitment to excellence will be compromised.