Vaccinations and Social Connections
While 2020 might be a year many people would like to forget, recent events have highlighted an essential component of the Corporate Family® experience that leaders would be remiss to ignore. In January of 2021, people from all walks of life not only began to receive COVID vaccinations but also experienced critical social connections which […]
Successful Foresight Requires Strategic Hindsight
“Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Hyperion (1839) The old saying “Hindsight is twenty-twenty” no doubt sends shivers down some of our spines. After enduring the unprecedented events of the 2020 global pandemic, many of us would like to forget that ill-fated year and move swiftly into […]
Generational Differences
“My mother and I had a generational smackdown this past weekend,” the young woman shared with a smile. “She didn’t like the way I responded to a question, but it’s really her fault for raising me with so much confidence, right?” As a Boomer, I didn’t know exactly how I should respond to this “overshare,” […]
Fighting Fires: Part II
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. Ralph Waldo Emerson While climbing up the popular tourist site of Dunn’s River Falls in Jamaica, one member of our family began to struggle with the slippery rocks and steep ascent. A man just ahead of our group suddenly […]
Fighting Fires Part I
“Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.” Seneca Wildfires are raging across the west in the United States, and on the heels of a harrowing fire season in Australia, the team at LEADon® reflected on the firestorms that we have survived in southern California during the past two decades. Thousands were displaced and countless families […]
Cultivating Courage
“There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.” Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz The Cowardly Lion, sojourner with the legendary Dorothy, bears one of the most oxymoronic monikers in literature and filmography. After all, lions are known […]
PIVOT: 5 Keys to Thriving in Tough Times
“One common reason to pivot a business is difficulty generating sustainable revenue.” Little did Chuck Cohn realize when he wrote these words in a 2015 Forbes article how meaningful they would be five years later. 2020 has become an extremely difficult year for many businesses to generate let alone sustain revenue due to the COVID-19 […]
Endurance: Necessary Fitness in Leadership
At first, hiking Cathedral Rock Trail seemed like a terrific way to spend a spring afternoon while vacationing with family in Sedona, Arizona. Little did I realize the “short, steep ascent” the guide casually mentioned would be steeped in leadership lessons that I would not soon forget. Actually, several of those lessons have been extremely […]