Last week I was fortunate enough to meet President Obama and I am excited to blog about my experience! I will keep it personal not political and as I share my story, I will weave in 4 lessons on effective engagement. The lessons are about: the power of face-to-face meeting; how questions are key to […]
I recently attended a Q&A session with General David Patraeus at The Chicago Council of Global Affairs and wanted to share an interesting point he made regarding a lesson he has learned that apply to the private sector. One of the 1,800 people who attended asked him to define strategic leadership. He answered the question by explaining how he approached the Afghanistan […]
This model can lead to some great conversations by shifting leader’s attention from actions and structure to identity and tone, the inner two aspects of the flame model. Several companies have spent large sums of money bringing in consulting companies to address process improvements, only to discover after years have past and millions of dollars […]