Fostering Creativity
You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Maya Angelou During a recent corporate event, several executives shared their concerns about dwindling creativity. In this company’s case, creativity is paramount to survival and continued success in order to produce new product for their customer base. Their level of anxiety seemed […]
3 T’s for Terrific Communication
In a previous blog entitled Communication 201: Best Practices for Personal and Professional Connections, the LEADon® team detailed specific strategies leaders can implement to improve how their Corporate Family® communicates. At the end of that blog, we mentioned three essential “T’s” for terrific communication, and we’d like to expand on those here. In essence, to […]
Culture of Caring
After a recent blog garnered great interest, the LEADon® team decided to dive a little deeper into the ‘culture of caring’ theme which resonated with so many readers. Indeed, due to the tumultuous events of 2020-21, caring for one another seems an appropriate topic for families to consider, including members of a Corporate Family®. After […]
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,” […]
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 […]