Social Distancing: Shortcomings and Solutions
For the past few months, the LEADon® team has been fielding an oft-repeated question: “Is social distancing sustainable for our teams long term?” The simple answer is no, absolutely not. The rationale is equally as simplistic: as humans we are interpersonal creatures, and despite the greatest technology, people need contact and interaction with others in […]
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 […]
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 […]
To the Moon and Back: NASA-Based Lessons on Virtual Problem-Solving
“Uh Houston, we’ve had a problem.” Many people remember this shocking statement uttered by astronaut Jim Lovell about Apollo 13’s status. Others are simply familiar with this iconic announcement, which is still often used to signify the gravity of a particular situation. In April of 1970, the status of Apollo 13 couldn’t have been more serious, […]
LEADing with Hope
“The reflection of my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.” When he penned these words in 1776, George Washington couldn’t have known how applicable they would be to 21st century leaders. No matter what […]
The Corporate Family® Approach Works!
What do Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Mark Wahlberg have in common? Many people might assume very little—other than both being U.S. citizens. And that would seem sensible given that they both live and work in completely separate environments. Yet interestingly enough, 2018 revealed that they both share a common bond: the belief in […]
Olympic Attitude toward Leadership
As the Summer Olympics of 2016 unfolded, the successes of athletes from around the world made international headlines. And no matter what country, team, or individual you were rooting for, those athletes all had one thing in common: Coaching. Think about that for a few seconds. Contestants in the Olympics don’t make it to that […]