I talk with CEOs almost every day who appear to have two people residing in their bodies: The Fearless Leader and the Fearful Manager. When the Fearless Leader is in charge, she has a clear vision of the company’s future and plans to get it there. She knows she will need to invest time, energy, human resources and money to
“People don’t buy WHAT you do, they buy WHY you do it.” ~ Simon Sinek Business leaders and advisors who have worked with me know that I believe that they need to be crystal clear about their answers to three questions: Who do you work with? (Who are your customers/clients?) What do you give them
I’ve been inspired to write this today by my daughter, Madeline. I just posted it to Facebook. While there are people who don’t want to know about all your trials and tribulations, Madeline told me, there are also people who would feel badly if you excluded them from the important things in your life—good or
Image credit: Pixabay Leading and managing have become so synonymous with each other in our language that an employee might refer to his boss as either. But the two terms are not interchangeable. RetailerNow offers succinct definitions for leaders and managers: leading serves as the heart, they propose, while managing acts as the brains.
This month, I began working with the advisors at a national financial institution under an exclusive agreement which limits my ability to take on new financial advisor clients. I will be finishing up my work with current advisor clients and will not be taking on new advisors. I will continue to work with CEOs and professionals in
Let’s talk movies. My father loved the “lone hero” characters played by Gary Cooper, who faced off with all of the bad guys virtually solo in the 1952 movie High Noon. To my dad, Cooper represented the idea that action heroes had to find their way by themselves. Dad believed that strong, successful people don’t
