Unplanned Leadership… and an Offer for you Leadership isn’t always planned. In fact, the lack of planning is the essence of our business – people development. I am always reminded of this when we begin with a new client. There are many things in life we plan for – education, purchases, meetings, vacations, family gatherings, [...]
Unplanned Leadership
September 12th, 2011Tags: business, cantor fitzgerald, client, day, development, education, essence, example of leadership, experience labor, family gatherings, howard lutnick, manhattan resident, odd coincidence, offer, remembrance of september 11, september 11 2001, subway rider, tragedy, travel, way
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Paying Attention
August 8th, 2011Paying attention – served simply… It was a simple idea and had competitors saying “wow, I wish it were us.” Very simple, not particularly expensive, no need for huge bells and whistles or a BIG idea, just simply focused on catering to individual needs and making lives a bit easier by anticipating needs, or simply [...]
Tags: aka, Assumptions, audience base, bells and whistles, catering, customer, date, desires, hopes and dreams, idea, klm, need, paying attention, stunt, trajectory, tweets, way, YouTube
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On Excellence
July 28th, 2011On Excellence: It doesn’t always need to be perfect. Sometimes the act of striving for ‘the best’ turns into a recipe for the worst. I hear all the time how we need another such and such, like the success of such and such. But really, there’s but just so many of those such and suches [...]
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Deepak is deep.
April 1st, 2011A couple of months ago I had the fortune of sitting in on a talk that Deepak Chopra was giving while promoting his new book, “The Soul of Leadership.” This is not the first time I’ve had such pleasure to experience an inevitably calm discussion with Dr. Chopra. The first time was way back in [...]
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No, you can’t… go it alone
March 23rd, 2011No, you can not – succeed… alone. There’s just no way, to go it alone. I tell this to folks all the time. I remind myself, all the time. Everyone contributes skills & competencies to creative projects, and all involved should challenge each other, & be the push for growth. All the while, enabling opportunity, [...]
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