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Leadership Alert: We Have A Pattern Spill!!!

Friday, June 18th, 2010

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In “Don’t Bring It to Work” I discuss the 13 behavior patterns that follow us from our original organization, the family into our work organization.

 

The BIG, I mean BIG question is “Why do we keep doing the same things over and over and over and over and over“?

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Coca-Cola Faces Anger

Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

Coca-Cola Faces Anger From Shareholders About Use of BPA in Cans [UPDATE]

BY Dan Nosowitz Today

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Real Leaders Practice Safe Stress ™

Friday, 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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Leadership and Early Adapters

Thursday, 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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Valentines for Moms

Thursday, 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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Tillit and Other Palindromes

Thursday, 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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Unhappy at Work

Tuesday, 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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Cultural Sensitivity

Friday, 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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Elegant Leadership

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

 

I am so delighted to introduce you to my new blog “Elegant Leadership” that will be posted at http://blog.ceoptions.com/ after the New Year. Since I love to write I will have a more personal blog at www.sylvialafair.com to include thoughts and ideas about relationships, health, and education, as well as business.

 
Elegant Leadership will include all my newest research concerning leadership. I will suggest the best books, articles, and unique individuals I can find to help you on the difficult daily journey of being the best leader you can be.

 
Why did I choose the title “elegant leadership”? I honestly think it chose me. I woke up with the term, like a drum beat, repeating over and over in my head. Maybe I had a dream about it, not sure. All I know is,  I love the word “elegant” as it is used in scientific realms. In nature elegant signifies finding the simplest and most precise way of responding.

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Connecting the Dots of Leadership

Monday, December 14th, 2009

 

This end of the first decade of Century 21 is a time of searching more deeply for leadership skills that go beyond simple cookbook “become a great leader in one minute” solutions.

 

General Electric Chairman and CEO, Jeff Immelt, offered some great suggestions in his speech at the West Point Distinguished Leader Series. What struck me was his comment that we “must become systems thinkers who are comfortable with ambiguity”. You can read the entire speech at the GE web site.

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