Indianapolis, is most known around the world for one thing – the Indianapolis 500, held each year in May on the Sunday of Memorial Day weekend. As an Indianapolis resident, the month of May is really all about one thing: s-p-e-e-d. Drivers team engineers and owners are trying to get more of it. Sportscasters and journalists are
Members of our Remarkable Leadership Learning System (get a sample or a free trial in the right column) are learning about creating Customer Partnerships this month, and as a part of that process had the chance to listen to and interact with Steve Yastrow, author of We: The Ideal Customer Relationship in our Guest Conversation
Twitter, if you don’t know, is a micro-blogging or instant updating social media tool, that is growing at expontential rates (even before Oprah joined the party). I’ve been on Twitter user for over a year and now have over 4100 followers, which probably puts me in the top couple percent of all users. But it
In a casual conversation this morning, Jenny Pratt told about her daughter Madison’s current third grade English assignment, which included writing Cinquain poetry*. Not knowing anything about this type of poetry I was intrigued and thought it might be fun to write some for a blog post. Leadership responsibility opportunity communicating inspiring encouraging Making a
I’ve long loved reading inspirational materials. I find them not only edifying, but tremendously valuable personally and professionally. I truly believe part of our role as a leader is to inspire others through our words and actions. I recently wrote a post called Creating Leadership Inspiration that shares my perspective. Part of that post encourages
Conflict is a topic that often comes up with I talk with leaders. In three separate cases lately I have heard of organizations including conflict resolution in supervisor training programs. A perennially popular topic for training at all levels of leadership development training, conflict is as often misunderstood and mishandled as it is discussed. Consider this view
On 60 Minutes last Sunday, President Obama visited with Steve Kroft for two segments (part 1, part 2). Throughout he talked about the start of his Presidency, the challenges he is facing and much more. One small comment about one of his habits is an important lesson for all of us as leaders. He said
Last week in my Powerquotes Plus email, I shared a snippet from James Clavell’s novel Shogun. “To think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If you leave your mind to itself it will spiral down into ever increasing unhappiness. To think good thoughts,however, requires effort. This is one of the things that discipline –
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