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 […]
Empathy’s Impact on the Bottom Line
A Wall Street Journal piece recently emphasized the positive impact empathy can have on individuals, especially in terms of improving relationships (see May 3rd, 2016 for the article It’s Worth Learning to Be More Empathetic). And while few would disagree with a professor like Susan Kuczmarski from the executive education program at Northwestern University’s Kellogg […]
A LEGO-like Lesson on Corporate Rebuilding
Like many organizations that have endured the ups and downs of the economy since 2008, the Danish toymaker LEGO had to make some major adjustments in order to survive. According to an article by Martin Lindstrom (see LEGO engineered a remarkable turnaround on its business. How’d that happen?), LEGO’s problems may have begun as far […]