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March 1st, 2010
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe receive blog updates. Thanks for visiting! There was an excellent article by renowned leadership expert Michael Maccoby in the Washington Post about the upside and downside of “stretch goals”.
The Olympics, a perfect example of watc hing individuals and teams push themselves, motivated by the desire to achieve greatness. What Maccoby suggested is that we need to look at the fine line between going toward a vision that is possible and one that can ultimately turn sour.
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Tags: Accountability, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Events, family patterns, Family-Based Patterns, Fear, Google, Health, History, Leadership, Michael Maccoby, Olympic, Sport, Summer Games, Summer Olympic Games, Team Building, Television, Washington Post
Posted in Coaching, Executive Teams, Family, Health, History, Leaders, Leadership, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Reflections, Team Building, The media, Transformation | 6 Comments »
February 26th, 2010
Stress and anxiety have been at the boiling point for the last year, and depending where you live, the weather has been the proverbial icing on the cake.
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Tags: Accountability, Anxiety, Behavioral Patterns, Blood pressure, Boss, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Diabetes mellitus, Economy, Ethics, Family-Based Patterns, Health, Leaders, Leadership, Mental Health, Neuroscience, pattern aware, Physical exercise, Power, programs, Psychology, Relationships, Safe Stress Zone, Stress, Workplace Relationships
Posted in Accountability, Avoider, Boss, Business, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Family, Health, History, Human Resources, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Media, Money, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Team Building, Transformation | 4 Comments »
February 21st, 2010
 Why all the hoopla for a guy who plays golf? He does not make national or international policy. He does not have a nuclear site being built in his backyard.
He did what so many men and women do….he screwed up!
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Tags: Buddhism, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, Golf, Sport, Tiger, Tiger Wood
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February 18th, 2010
 The following video has gone viral and is lots of fun to watch. It teaches some good lessons about the “first follower” as a leader. These early adapters are visionaries in their own right, and help make a movement happen.
In the video, we are talking about dancing at the beach: lots of fun and freedom and spontaneity. I would like to present a question and would love responses from all who are thinking about the ethics of followership.
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Tags: Arts, Bizarre, Dancing Guy, Dancing on the beach, Ethics, Follow the leader?, Health, Humor, Philosophy, Polarization, Recreation, Sound bite, TED conference
Posted in Accountability, Avoider, Boss, Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Family, Health, History, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Marital coaching, Media, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Psychology, Reflections, Super Achiever, Team Building, The media, default | 2 Comments »
February 11th, 2010
 An important part of what we teach in our Total Leadership Connections Program is that it is an illusion to think we can separate who we are at home from who we are at work. That split causes a multitude of emotional and even physical issues for lots of people.
Even more, we teach that what we do in our present work organization is most definitely based on what we learned in our original organization – the family.
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Tags: Behavioral Patterns, charlizetheron, Communication, Family, Family ties, Family-Based Patterns, Goldie Hawn, Health, Home, Kate Hudson, Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Leaders, Leadership, Parents love, Transformation, Valentine's Day, Workplace Relationships
Posted in Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Diversity, Economy, Education, Family, Health, History, Holiday, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Media, Money, PatternAware, Patterns, Psychology, Reflections | No Comments »
January 28th, 2010
Got your attention? I hope so. The palindrome for you to watch is an important reminder that when we look with new eyes, the context of the world changes in the blink of our eyes. Read it forwards and then read the same words backwards and see what changes occur inside you.
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Tags: AARP, Behavioral Patterns, Communication, Family-Based Patterns, Fear, Health, Leadership, Leadership development, neuropsychology, Palindrome, pattern aware, Relationships, Resilience, Tillit, Transformation, Trust, Visionary, You Tube
Posted in Accountability, Business, Coaching, Communication, Diversity, Economy, Employers, Ethics, Fear, Health, History, Honor, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Money, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Reflections, Transformation | 8 Comments »
January 19th, 2010
 Months ago I posted a blog on why women are so unhappy at work. I am still getting responses, even though most “older blogs” are put out to pasture by the end of the day they are conceived and birthed.
I have been thinking about why there is so much gloom and doom about getting up in the morning, going to a place where we are being asked to roll up our sleeves, produce and create, and then go home for an evening of feeling full and having been useful.
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Tags: Behavioral Patterns, Business, Family-Based Patterns, Health, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership development, leadership programs, Management, Money, neuropsychology, Women in Business, Women Leaders
Posted in Boss, Business, Coaching, Communication, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Employers, Ethics, Executive Teams, Fear, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Management, Media, Money, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Power, Psychology, Team Building | 9 Comments »
January 8th, 2010
 As I was writing my Elegant Leadership blog about the poor choice of language from Michael Steele, of the Republican Party, I was reminded of a powerful scenario from a Leadership in Action program I led years ago.
There was a group of 24 business people from various organizations who gathered together for a week to understand leadership capabilities from an experiential perspective.
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Tags: Accountability, Behavioral Patterns, Coaching, Communication, Conflict, Cultural sensitivity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Family-Based Patterns, Fear, Health, History, Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Leaders, Native American, Native American Indian, neuropsychology, Neuroscience, pattern aware, Politics, Power, Psychology, Relationships, Resilience, Sankofa, Transformation
Posted in Accountability, Conflict, Consulting, Cultural Diversity, Diversity, Economy, Education, Ethics, Fear, Health, History, Honor, Human Resources, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, PatternAware, Patterns, Politics, Power, Psychology, Uncategorized | 16 Comments »
January 7th, 2010
 We can thank Tiger Woods, John Edwards, and all the other guys who have been looking for love in all the wrong places. Or, have they?
Relationships are the most complex, most confusing, and most important part of what it means to be a human being. I am hoping that we have finally hit the wall looking at relationships through a superficial, selfish lens. Perhaps we can begin to look at what really matters in this interesting teen-decade of the century.
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Tags: behavior patterns, Behavioral Patterns, Communication, Family-Based Patterns, Infedility, Interactions, Relationships, Sankofa, Transformation
Posted in Accountability, Communication, Conflict, Consulting, Ethics, Integrity, Marital coachiing, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Politics, Power, Psychology, Reflections, default | 12 Comments »
January 5th, 2010
 I spent some time during the holidays checking out how people either crave new situations, or are almost addicted to repeating patterns from the past – New Year’s Eve is a perfect example. We were on a plane from San Francisco to Albuquerque. I could feel a sense of anticipation as we walked through the mostly empty concourse on our way to the car.
As we moved from passenger only, to the meet and greet side, I heard a lovely woman greet her husband? lover? With “I was afraid you would not get here till after the New Year started.” They still had half an hour till the bells would toll and fireworks began. I wondered if this could really make a difference for their relationship.
Then I noticed I was getting anxious. Our luggage was first off and we got the car quickly. Yet, we still would have been too late for the global peace meditation we wanted to join. So, we got in the car for the hour drive to our home outside of Santa Fe.
Interesting how patterns work. At ten before the witching hour of twelve, we started the countdown. And as the few early fireworks began to light the sky with the full blue moon as background, we pulled over to the side of the road for the hearty ritual of a goodbye kiss to 2009 and a welcoming glad you are here kiss for 2010. It felt good, and in some far corner of my mind, it really did make a difference.
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Tags: Behavioral Patterns, Family-Based Patterns, Health, Leaders, Leadership, Neuroscience, New Year, Relationships
Posted in Communication, Holiday, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Neuroscience, PatternAware, Patterns, Psychology, Reflections, Transformation | 1 Comment »
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