How to Give a Briefing that Impresses the Boss

Let’s say you have to brief the boss on the status of a project. How can you do it best? Here’s a five-step process you can use for a meeting, an email message or a stopped-in-the-hallway request for an update. This process will help you make it obvious to the boss that you’re on top […]

Your Personal Path to Better Leadership

What You Can’t See There are innumerable resources on how to be a more effective leader, but what if you asked the people you work with – what advice would they give you? Would they tell you to take your greatest strengths and run with them? Or Would they suggest some areas to work on? […]

Leadership Inspirations – The Right to Consume

“We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.” George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics

Recommended Resource – The Black Swan

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb Black swan events are by definition unpredictable, catastrophic, and retrospectively believed to have been fully predictable and by extension less impactful. About the Reference In his book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Dr. Nassim Nicholas Taleb illustrates the […]

Leadership Inspirations – Avoid Absolutes

“It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.” Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) Anglo-Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist, and philosopher Remember to avoid using absolutes…

Have You Earned the Right to Lead? Ten Deeply Destructive Mistakes That Suggest the Answer Is No (and How to Stop Making Them)

There are people in every organization you know whose titles indicate they are leaders. Often, and unfortunately, their employees beg to differ. Oh, they don’t say it directly, not to the boss’s face, anyway. They say it with their ho-hum performance, their games of avoidance, their dearth of enthusiasm. Leaders – real leaders who have […]

Recruiter-IZE Your Resume and Finally Get some Interviews

A friend of mine was angry. After a decade of writing screenplays with no success, after reading books on writing and submitting and formatting, her mantle was not only Oscar less, she had no mantle. But what got her mad was meeting a woman in her SPIN class who worked for a household name film […]

Leadership Inspirations – Endurance and Indecision

“Endurance is frequently a form of indecision.” Princess Elizabeth Bibesco (1897 – 1945) English writer

How to Think like a Visionary

I was riding in an airplane a few years ago when Richard Branson, CEO of Virgin, plopped down in the seat next to mine. Imagine that! We talked for a while, and then Branson hurried off to visit a few of his friends on the other side of the plane. I should mention, by the […]