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Reinventing the Corporation: A Talk with John Mattone
I first met leadership consultant and best-selling author John Mattone about a year ago when we were both invited to be keynote speakers at a corporate event in Mexico. The topic was talent development. Both John and I have similar experience and background in talent...
Finding Your Purpose: A Talk with Margaret Keane
It’s been over 30 years since we first started using the term the “glass ceiling” to describe the shortage of women in corporate leadership roles. Thirty years later, despite all our efforts to create more opportunities for women, we’re still woefully inadequate in...
Building a Virtual Leadership Team: A Talk with Tiger Tyagarajan
Imagine you’re the CEO of a business with employees all over the world — 66,000 employees in 25 locations, to be exact. You can’t possibly be in every one of those locations in person to maintain open, honest, and trusting communication with your people. How do you...
How to Measure Your Brain-based Leadership Potential
We’ve been talking about equality in the workplace for thirty years now. We’ve been talking about diversity and race relations. We’ve put Band-aids on a lot of issues, but maybe we need to rip some of those Band-aids off so we can finally understand our bias, where it...
Stress Management and Resilience for Business Leaders
If you haven’t figured it out by now, the greatest competitive advantage your organization has is its people. And understanding what makes your people tick is the key to a successful, sustainable organization. As part of my series of radio interviews with experts in...
You Are Biased — Even If You Don’t Know It
We used to shy away from talking about bias, certainly in business settings, because it’s such a controversial topic. But the truth is, we all have biases, whether we’re aware of it or not. Sometimes biases come from places in ourselves we don’t understand. And...
A Talk with Phil Dixon: It’s All About People
Something I saw on the news recently really disturbed me. Walmart, one of the largest companies in the world, is giving pay raises to its managers and employees. It’s improving working conditions by relaxing dress codes, playing better music on its PA systems, and...
Getting It Done and Making It Better: A Talk With Suhail Bin Tarraf
What does it take to lead a top-notch organization? What do great leaders do that sets them apart? On my radio show, iLead: The Leadership Connection, I’ve been talking with heads of top companies around the world, trying to find out how they consistently manage to...
Love Them and Lead Them: A Chat with Jim Kouzes
When I think about the greatest leaders I’ve ever worked with, they’ve always been people who were interested in me, took a chance on me, gave me advice when I needed it, and reached out a hand to help pull me up. In essence, they were people who were about others...
A Chat with Leadership Guru Marshall Goldsmith
Can we change how we do things and become better leaders? Of course! Will we do it, though? That’s another question. On a recent episode of my Voice America radio show, I talked with best-selling author and leadership expert Marshall Goldsmith about strategies for...
