In my consulting and coaching practice, I often have to manage tricky meeting and conflict management dynamics and coach my clients to do the same. As I’ve mentioned before, many of my secrets are on Amazon.com in the simple and powerful principles of “The PRIMES” by Chris McGoff. These powerful...
The cohort of leaders who will reclaim leadership to achieve great things in the world won't succeed out of idealism, an extreme sense of perfection or personal heroism. We will succeed because we see ourselves and the world for what is and because we master the ability to motivate groups we lead...
"Our" truth and "the" truth may or may not be the same thing, and that's ok. Truth is complicated because we have so much perspective. When you release the need to share your personal truth with everyone else all the time, you free yourself to own what is yours. Your truth can make you powerful....
By: Kunal Modi A response to Anne-Marie Slaughter's article in TheAtlantic entitled "Why Women Still Can't Have It All." For weeks, Anne-Marie Slaughter's recent op-ed in the Atlantic, "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," has ricocheted across traditional and social media. It touched a nerve among...
Last week, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Princeton Professor extraordinaire and former State Department Policy Director, took a break from writing about Syria and US-Mexican relations to write a sincere and heart-felt article in The Atlantic lamenting the reality that as women move into powerful positions...
A simple reality of the working world is that meetings dominate our time, and the higher you go in your career, the more pressure there is to spend every waking moment in a meeting somewhere. I think we should cancel most of the meetings we attend, but what about the ones where you need to be...
When I interviewed Mike Howard, Chief Security Officer at Microsoft, on the subject of leadership, we also had a great conversation about the role he sees gender and diversity playing in modern organizations. I listened to understand Gendership – the partnership of women and men working and...
This month while I’ve been giving my eSeminar to the amazing and brave people intent on developing their own Authentic Leadership Style, I’ve been exploring deep and powerful dimensions of authenticity and sharing them on the blog. One of the elephants in the room when we talk about authenticity...
What does it mean to be a powerful woman? Do we have to be aggressive and domineering, exerting power over others to drive success? Or if you favor collaboration, can you transform the meaning of power? There are two steps to consider when determining how you can be powerful if you desire to be....
When you meet Microsoft’s Chief Security Officer for the first time – a man who spent over two decades in super secret intelligence and law enforcement before taking on one of the most challenging commercial assignments on the planet – you don’t get what you expect. You don’t get a tough,...
Gaining Power In Your Career: A Guide to Getting Promoted at Every Level
October 2024 Leadership Development Carnival
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