The People Equation

In her 30 Day Blogging Challenge Sandra Martini asserts that to move your business forward, you have to “get in the habit of doing one ordinary thing each and every day.”  Well, that seems simple.  Or is it?  The online Merriam-Webster’s definition of “ordinary” is the regular or customary condition or course of things.  So [...]

During my 30 Days of Tweeting Experiment in May, I jumped into Twitter with both feet and very low expectations. As it turned out, I loved Twitter. One of the delights of tweeting was discovering the blogsphere and its many opinionated, generous, insightful writers contained within. Before I knew it, I had set up a [...]

Like most people, I’m constantly looking for ways to stay on top of current issues in my profession and the general business world at large.  So I was delighted to discover the blogsphere’s “carnival” format.  Essentially, a blog carnival is a compilation of blog posts connected by a common thread. Carnival topics that interest me [...]

In a recent blog post, Mary Jo Asmus asked, “What are the stories we tell ourselves?”  It was a simple question, yet one rich with possibility.  In my years of creating leadership development programs, one of the “stories” that continually surfaces with leaders is the story of “I need to do X for my direct [...]

Are you a nosy person? I wouldn’t typically describe myself this way.  On any given day, I go about my work, mind my own business and basically try to respect people’s right to privacy.
Except that doesn’t seem to apply to my social media use.   At what point did I turn into Mrs. Kravitz? (You know, [...]

We were at the dinner table the other night and my husband tossed out a word that was new to me: twitterpated.  He assured me it was a real word and made reference to the Disney movie “Bambi“.  I thought he was mocking my Twitter use, so I looked it up.  Sure enough, the online [...]

This weekend marked yet another milestone in what has unwittingly turned out to be the “Year of Trying New Things” for me.  The tough economy (and we’ve had it pretty rough here in Michigan) has had an interesting effect—it’s pushed me to try new things.  Rather than hunker down and try “business as usual”, I’ve [...]

How to prepare for the coming recovery by turning caution into action
By Guest Blogger Dave Schrader
 
As the recession wears on, I’ve begun seeing a pattern in some clients that may cost them dearly in the near future: fear and caution are silently working their way deep into the organization’s psyche.  And those feelings are quietly [...]

Lessons from a Teenaged Underachiever
On his Lead Change Group blog, Mike Henry Sr. ruminated on the circumstances under which it would be OK to tell a “white lie” at the office. He posed the question “If no one knows you lied, are you a truthful person?”  That question sparked a memory of a leadership lesson learned [...]

Professionalism in the Web 2.0 Era
It all started with a t-shirt.  When I posted the results of my 30 Days of Tweeting Experiment last month, I sent an email to my colleagues announcing the blog.  The email contained a photo of me wearing a navy t-shirt (courtesy of the Ellen Shop) that boasted “My Tweets [...]