Archive for the ‘Integrity’ Category

Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

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Looking for Love

Looking for Love

Since I began doing leadership coaching with Jon Gosselin, I have become more sensitized to the role of “celebrity” in our culture. It creates both the addiction to being known and noticed all the time, and increases the dark side of depression and disappointment when the lights stop flashing.

 

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Leadership Strategies: Better to Make Headlines or Make a Difference?

Monday, July 12th, 2010

 

Last week the buzz about Jon Gosselin participating in our Total Leadership Connections program was over the top. The fact that I am presently outlining a yet to be names book with him drew lots of attention.

 

Jon and I talked about what the pull is to check out his every move. I became intrigues with the types of media comments from folks who picked up the initial article and put their own spin to it.

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Sylvia, Jon, and Asking Questions

Friday, July 9th, 2010

 

I am fascinated by the fact that there are so many words being written on the web, and yet, there are so few real questions being asked. Yesterday I was fortunate to talk with a reporter from TodayShow.com and what a difference!

 

We had a dialogue! Now, that is not something busy people do anymore. Dialogue is not debate. Debate is when there is a winner and a loser. It was not just plain conversation. Conversation is more about how the hot weather is bothering, or not bothering you, how the folks are, with an answer of “Fine thanks”. It is not even discussion. Discussion gathers points of view and bundles them into groups.

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Lindsey Lohan: Patterns that Repeat

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

 

Why do we do the same things over and over and expect different results? Einstein called this the definition of insanity!

 

I was deeply saddened to see that Lindsey Lohan is going the route that leads to a dead end path. Better if she could be helped to get to the root of what is driving her. It will not happen in jail or in traditional rehab. Her father Michael went that route and, as he said on Larry King Live, it didn’t get to the root of his personal issues.

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Battling Women and Windmills

Tuesday, July 6th, 2010

 

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

In our Total Leadership Connections program we teach participants to go beyond the obvious, that leadership in any field requires deep thought; superficial considerations are merely not enough.

 

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Pay Attention

Thursday, July 1st, 2010

 

This is a time to really, really look at the meaning of success, of relationship, and in honor of the Fourth of July, of freedom.

 

Please go to Examiner.com where I am a writer and check out the blog I did about Jon Gosselin who is in our Total leadership Connections program. Jon lives in Pa. and has been on the reality series “Jon and Kate Plus Eight” where we all had the opportunity to watch sextuplet and twin Gosselins grow and flourish.

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To Know You is to Love You

Monday, June 28th, 2010

 

Hey, take a minute and look in the mirror. Not to judge, just to look. Now, what do you see?

 

Most of us will start with what is wrong. Sad but true. We live in a sort and judge, sort and judge world. We come from a fix and hide, fix and hide society. Think about teeth; how white is white enough? Why should teeth be super white anyway?

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Leadership and Change: Ready on a Moment’s Notice

Friday, June 25th, 2010

 

I must really be getting old! I remember when tornadoes were only meant to happen in Kansas. In past years most of us watched “The Wizard of Oz” and went along with Dorothy on her journey, yet it was just a story, right?

 

While tornadoes indicate sudden change and danger they were “out there” in pockets of the country. They were meant to be in Kansas, not Connecticut. Well, not until this week anyway.

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Workplace Conflict Can Be a Good Thing

Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010

 

We are deeply into the second session of our 44th Total Leadership Connections program and I am still amazed when the dots between our backgrounds and work issues become clear.

 

In the present group is a young woman who grew up in a communist country and we had the privilege of hearing a first hand report of the tests and trials her family had to endure.

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Workplace Conflict, Men, Women, and the Family

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010

 

Yesterday I talked about the tension at work where men are searching for ways to navigate that tough middle road between being a great employee or business owner and a father who is present for his children.

 

I saw this dilemma first hand at an off-site with a national sales group. Picture the scene: the team of 22 from a sales organization was at The Country Place Retreat Center to have some fun on our outdoors team challenge course and to take advantage of our new program called “Build and Give” where they would put some two wheeler bikes together that would then be donated to charity.

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