Communication

Last week I had the honor to be a leader of a 19-member team during the Women in Leadership Conference in San Francisco. We gathered every day for a couple of hours to digest the day and to begin the process of looking at leadership from a personal perspective as well as to use the […]

I have a physician friend who in the past has worked in a small group practice, and is now part of a very large practice with management of a CEO and Vice Presidents. As we caught up over lunch, he expressed concern over the challenges of not only creating behavior change within an organization, but […]

This week I am getting ready to make my annual trip to the Global Institute of Leadership Development (GILD) in Palm Desert, and I have a wonderful group of leaders I will be coaching, as I do each year, as part of the Institute. In today’s post I want to quickly discuss leadership in general, and […]

In my last post I talked about the Open Door Policy as a way to create more availability and connection. I suggested that the “drop- in” meeting might not be the best way to foster the connection that creates high performance and leadership. Today I would like to talk about meetings that are regular and […]

As I continue to write and to talk with leaders, I am struck by the continued bafflement about how to move from being reactive to proactive which is what has inspired today’s post. I have heard many executives define the culture of their organization as reactive vs. pro-active.  They have expressed a desire for more […]

Our last blog post, Is Collaboration Worth the Time and Effort? elicited some great comments. My initial intention was to discuss partnership and collaboration as a means for creating greater success, both in implementation of current strategic plans and in innovation for expansion. In the comments that I received people spoke of joint writing projects […]

Recently, an executive in a global business said over dinner, “I hate collaboration”! If you have said that and have felt held back by the need to work with another when it seems that things would move more quickly if alone, then this is for you.

As I speak with leaders in different business arenas there is much discussion about increasing results, particularly with sales, and concerns about how to get there. There is still a tendency even in the new business climate to encourage competition as a way to increase high performance even at the executive level. Instead of using competition […]

As you know everyone is so busy now. Every day is filled with things to do, complete and accomplish, and a day can be over in a flash. How often do you look back and say, where did the time go, or, I did not get to what I meant to do today?