Archive for the ‘Media’ Category

Leadership, Living Dangerously, and Mel Gibson

Thursday, July 15th, 2010

 

Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson

Why is there so much razzle-dazzle blah, blah, blah about Mel Gibson? He is only one of a long line of individuals (female as well as male) who make nasty comments on the phone with lots of four to seven letter words that are bleeped out on the television.

 

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What Do Coaches Coach?

Thursday, July 8th, 2010

 

This past week has been fascinating in terms of learning how the media works. It is not so much having something written about me, that has been done and it is always fun to see a book review about “Don’t Bring It to Work” or an article like the one in The Wall Street Journal a month ago.

 

That is so different from what has happened this week. I was asked to do an interview with radaronline.com. It is not the usual place you will find me. However, there I was talking with a reporter about one of the participants in our Total Leadership Connections program.

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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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Leadership Alert: We Have A Pattern Spill!!!

Friday, June 18th, 2010

 

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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Need for Leadership

Tuesday, April 6th, 2010

The torment for the parents of the young suicide victim, the children who are accused of causing the horrific situation, the parents of all these children, the school officials, in fact, all children, parents and teachers in the school are in this together.

Phoebe Prince

Phoebe Prince

 

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Playing OUT Patterns

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

Sandra Bullock and Jesse  James have put Tiger and the other philanderers on the back page. Soon their story will be replaced by another couple that can’t make it (i.e. the relationship) work.

Sandra Bullock
Image by John Griffiths via Flickr

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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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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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