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Self Care Series: Love Yourself and My Ill-Fated Return to Facebook
In a world that seems flooded with rampant narcissism, it seems a bit much to suggest that the first step in self-care is simply to love yourself. So, let’s first take a look at the difference between self-love and narcissism. Narcissism isn’t really self-love, it is...
Cultural Intelligence: Because Culture is King
In a virtual workspace and an increasingly multi-cultural workforce, the importance of cultural intelligence is become much more acute. There is already ample research that shows a workplace that is respectful and diverse is the most productive. You can help to create...
Grow As a Leader – Featured in Go Solo
Honored to be featured in Go Solo, a digital magazine by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs. What's your business, and who are your customers? My business is all about building great leaders and teams by discovering and developing the natural talents in people. I...
Benefits of Cultural Intelligence & Free CQ Assessment Link
In my previous article about Cultural Intelligence, we looked at what culture is and what cultural intelligence is. To recap, cultural intelligence is a person’s ability to identify and adapt to cultural customs. As a leader and as a team member you encounter people...
Cultural Intelligence
What would you do..? Imagine that you are an expatriate manager on a team that included two South Africans. As other team members floated their ideas, the South Africans condemned them repeatedly (and loudly) as ill-conceived, problematic, or worse. How you...
The Real Me?
I toured in bands for many years and performed in numerous bands over the years. Even now I play in a local rock band, though my musical past includes, jazz, ragtime, marching, concert, orchestra, Army, country, rock, oldies, classic rock and even Chinese pop. As a...
What Happened to Sextilius?
In my last letter, I mentioned that the month of July was named for Julius Caesar. Will you be the next leader to have a month named in your honor? Here’s what you are up against… Julius was the great uncle of Gaius Octavius whom we now know as Caesar Augustus. Young...
Leadership Lessons from Julius Caesar: Rise to the Top
Discover How to Lead with the example of Julius Caesar Did you know that the month of July is named after Julius Caesar? You’ve got to be pretty special to have a month named after you. To be fair, Julius Caesar was pretty special, and a very gifted leader. Here are...
Strengths & Weaknesses 3: Your Character Structure
Ready to look at the fourth reason your greatest strength may show up as your greatest weakness? We already looked at Ignorance, Lack of Development, and Emotional Hijack. The fourth reason our strengths may not show up as a strength is that our character structure is...
Embrace Your Weakness and Uncover Your Strength : Part 2
Personalized Approaches to Addressing Weaknesses Welcome back! In this series, we are tackling the “greatest strengths is my greatest weakness” paradox. There are 4 main reasons why this may be true: ignorance, the strength is not developed into a true strength,...
Navigating the Intersection of Strength and Weakness: Part 1
I can’t count how many times I have heard that “our greatest strength is our greatest weakness.” If it is our greatest weakness, then it probably isn’t our greatest strength, it is more likely still in talent mode. In order to avoid a tangent into the semantics of...
Implications of the Word, Leader (Part 3): If People Can’t Say “No,” You Aren’t a Leader…
…you are a dictator. In this series about the assumptions inherent in the word Leader, we explored that leaders are “in front,” either physically or cognitively, while others are following. Also, leaders have a destination in mind, a desired future reality. Today we...