Leaders: What’s Really Important

As a leader, have you settled on what is most important to you? Do you know what makes you and those around you truly happy? I was reading a great article in Success Magazine about Roger Ebert where he shared a quote that really got me thinking; “I believe that if, at the end, according [...]

Hope Actually IS a Strategy

Where to start, where to start.  I have, for the most part, loyally posted a monthly blog for nearly two years on this fabulous and support-my-crazy-blogs site.  But last month?  Nothing. I know… there was no blog post from me.  My shelves were empty, my inspiration went desert, my fun balloon shot around the room [...]

Blankity-Blank-Blank Nerves!!

Nerves! Those blankity-blank-blank nerves! Yes, you heard me.  Nerves.  Those darn nerves!  Always around, never a dull moment: “nerves” have gotten the best of us and promoted the worst of us.  Leadership isn’t leadership without nerves, is it. I have a close relationship with nerves.  My nerves, other people’s nerves, high nerves, low nerves… the [...]

The Exceptional Strength of Followership

This month marks a remarkable time in all of our lives. It doesn’t matter where you live, how you were raised, or which side of any current news-story you are on, these are remarkable times! It seems that we have opened this decade with a torrent of “worst-that-could-happen” news.  In fact, the USA political, social, and economic [...]

The Leader’s Journey: The Fool On The Hill?

During one of my personal contemplation sessions, I was taken away by the Beatles song “Fool on the Hill” which was playing in another room in our house. It’s the Beatles playing, so of course I had to listen to the whole song… A Different Perspective But perhaps because of my state-of-mind or perhaps it was [...]

Katie Couric’s Evolution to Leadership

While tiptoeing through the tulips of online nice-to-knows, I stumbled upon a time capsule of sorts. Er, wait a second.  That really doesn’t do it justice.  Let me try this again. While in search of what seems a nearly impossible task of satisfying my curious and insatiable mind for learning something new (that’s better), I [...]

Future Leaders: Leading Our Most Precious

THREE STORIES, ONE POINT. If we want our students to be equipped to lead in the future, we need to provide them with teachers and counselors who are equipped to lead them today. Story #1 :: A Bad Apple “Sit down! Pay attention!” commanded one of my 8th-grade daughter Courtney’s teachers on the first day of the new [...]

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