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Center for Values-Driven Leadership: June 2013
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Wow - You're Different! Recognizing Differences as a Way to Launch Insight. It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. I was reminded of this recently in a conversation with my financial advisor. I was describing some of the work I've been doing in consulting and coaching and he said the most critical lesson he'd ever learned was that people really are different. Dr Kathryn Scanland is the president of Greystone Global LLC, a consu...
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Center for Values-Driven Leadership: April 2013
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The Campsite Theory of Coaching and Firing. The number one rule for any respectable. Leave the campsite better. Than you found it. When my children were young, family vacations were often spent at campgrounds within national parks, where one rule prevailed: leave the campsite better than you found it. The idea, of course, is to respect the natural environment by not just picking up your own trash, but by picking up rubbish others have left behind as well. BerylHealth is a Dallas-area health care customer...
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Center for Values-Driven Leadership: August 2013
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Winning Hearts and Minds: The Battle for Diversity and Inclusion Needs Authentic Leadership (Here’s Where to Start). Kathy Hopinkah Hannan, KPMG’s national managing partner for corporate responsibility, diversity and inclusion. As a diversity and inclusion executive, I’ve watched many initiatives waver, stall, or at worse, completely fail. What brings about these downfalls isn’t strategy – the ideas are usually sound. The missing ingredient is visible, Authentic Leadership. One Leader’s Story. Fortunatel...
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Center for Values-Driven Leadership: Taking Busy Off Its Pedestal
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Taking Busy Off Its Pedestal. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen. Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Thoreau's Cabin on Walden Pond. That’s a question I get asked frequently. It's part of the culture of owning a small business and/or being self-employed. And I do the same; I ask my business friends "Are you busy? It's a status symbol.
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Center for Values-Driven Leadership: September 2013
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Taking Busy Off Its Pedestal. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen. Henry David Thoreau, Walden. Thoreau's Cabin on Walden Pond. That’s a question I get asked frequently. It's part of the culture of owning a small business and/or being self-employed. And I do the same; I ask my business friends "Are you busy? It's a status symbol.
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Center for Values-Driven Leadership: October 2013
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Keep, Cut, Change: How to Get Culture Fit with Clients. Walraven (center) with Syncroness employees. They know I have their backs," he says. Landing a $2 million dollar contract is a big deal in a company the size of Syncroness. A Denver-based engineering consulting firm. CEO Mike Walraven was delighted when a new client signed Syncroness to provide research for a technology feasibility study. Walraven made the ethical choice. What this client found was that Syncroness was a good culture fit for their or...
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Center for Values-Driven Leadership: What's Your Metric for Success?
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What's Your Metric for Success? Would your strategy change if you changed. Your definition of success? Photo credit: Flickr via CompFight. I could lose everything and truly be okay with it. Tony Hsieh, billionaire and CEO of Zappos. Pleasing a very specific and small group of constituents? To be on the winning side? Doing what's best for the most people? But it certainly did cause me to ponder the question: What's my highest metric for success? And, how much is my ego driving my metric? I honestly believ...
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Center for Values-Driven Leadership: July 2013
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How Not to Sabotage Your Training Program: Learning Experiences that Work Across Generations. Every time we visit my grandmother, who is an octogenarian, she hands me a newsletter she gets from a women's club in which she's been an active member since 1950-something. The newsletter is two sided, copied on canary yellow paper with dense text interrupted by clip art and the occasional hand-written edit to a typo. Because the medium is too dated to be worth my time. In communication, modernity matters.