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Archive for the ‘Reflections’ Category
Friday, July 16th, 2010
 Leadership Theory After spending days looking at the media frenzy around Mel Gibson and Lindsay Lohan I must admit I could not even look at the rash of media mentions around Levi and Bristol and Sarah Palin. I needed some deeper nutrition and found it in Ron White’s article about leadership theories. I was just wondering what would happen if we stopped obsessing with celebrities that keep us feasting on cotton candy and really all began to dig our teeth in the work of people with substance. And yet, I am still curious to know why so many spend so much time discussing the antics of those who behave badly. In any case, take a few minutes and get some healthy reading under your belt today.
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Tags: Biology, Evolutionary Psychology, Great Man Theory of Leadership, Leadership, Leadership Theory, Levi, Lindsay Lohan, Mel Gibson, Organizational Behavior, Ron White, Sarah Palin, Theories of Leadership, Trait Theory of Leadership
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Leadership, Psychology, Reflections | 1 Comment »
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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Tags: Attention, Book, Communication, Don't Bring It to Work, Haiti, Jon Gosselin, King Wawa, Lindsey Lohan, Making a difference, Media, Mel Gibson, Mikayla Lev, News, Perez Hilton, Total Leadership Connections
Posted in Accountability, Behavorial Patterns, Communication, Creative Energy Options, Ethics, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Patterns, Power, Reflections, Story, The media | No Comments »
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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Tags: Behavior, Coach, Coaching, Consulting, Don't Bring It to Work, Exploration, Jon Gosselin, Journey, Leadership Coach, Leadership Development Program, Leadership Program, Life Coach, Patterns, RadarOnline, Reflection, The media, The Wall Street Journal, Total Leadership Connections, Workplace Relationship Expert, Writing
Posted in Accountability, Behavorial Patterns, Children, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Consultation, Consulting, Creative Energy Options, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Media, Parenting, PatternAware, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Reflections, Story, The media, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Trust, Truth, Workplace Relationships | 3 Comments »
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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Tags: behavior patterns, Communication, Dina Lohan, Divorce, Don't Bring It to Work, Drama, Family, Insanity, Lindsey Lohan, Media, Michael Lohan, Patterns, Positive Change, Siblings, Sylvia Lafair
Posted in Accountability, Behavorial Patterns, Children, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Creative Energy Options, Family, History, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Media, Money, Neuroscience, Parenting, PatternAware, Patterns, Psychology, Reflections, Story, The media, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Truth | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010
 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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Tags: Behavior, Bravehart, Communication, Don't Bring It to Work, Family, Father and Son, Hutton Gibson, Mel Gibson, NBC, Original Organization, Past, Patterns, Ransom, The Patriot
Posted in Accountability, Behavorial Patterns, Children, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict resolution, Diversity, Environment, Family, Fear, History, Innovative, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Money, Parenting, Patterns, Reflections, Story, The media, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Truth | No Comments »
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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Tags: Collaboration, Communication, Fourth of July, Freedom, Holiday, Jon Gosselin, Leader, Leadership, Patterns, Reinventing, Relationship, Success. Self Reflection, Sylvia Lafair, Total Leadership Connections
Posted in Accountability, Behavorial Patterns, Coaching, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict resolution, Creative Energy Options, Family, Holiday, Innovative, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Patterns, Reflections, Story, The media, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Trust | 1 Comment »
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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Tags: Authentic Leadership, Judge, Judging, Leadership, Leadership development, Self Reflection, System
Posted in Communication, Conflict resolution, Consultation, Consulting, Creative, Diversity, Executive Coaching, Executive Education, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Patterns, Psychology, Reflections, The media, Transformation, Workplace Relationships | No Comments »
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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Tags: Change, Human, Kansas, Leadership, The Country Place, Tornados, Total Leadership Connections, Victim
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Business, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict resolution, Creative Energy Options, Diversity, Executive Coaching, Explorer, Family, Health, History, Honor, Innovative, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Patterns, Power, Psychology, Reflections, Story, Total Leadership Connections, Truth, Victim | 2 Comments »
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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Tags: Communication, Communist, Courage, Knowledge, Speaking Out, Speaking Up, Tension, Total Leadership Connections, Truth, Truthtelling, Work issues, Workplace conflict
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Business, Children, Communication, Conflict, Environment, Family, Fear, History, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, PatternAware, Patterns, Reflections, Story, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Truth, Workplace Relationships, Youth | 1 Comment »
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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Tags: Build and Give, Communication, Conflict, Family, Men, No, Ouch!, Soccer Dads, The Country Place Retreat, Women, Workplace
Posted in Behavorial Patterns, Business, Children, Collaboration, Communication, Conflict, Conflict resolution, Creative, Creative Energy Options, Executive Teams, Family, Human Resources, Innovative, Integrity, Leaders, Leadership, Leadership Development Programs, Marital coaching, Parenting, PatternAware, Patterns, Reflections, Story, Total Leadership Connections, Transformation, Trust, Tweets, Workplace Relationships, Youth | No Comments »
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