Leading Thoughts for December 23, 2021

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Michael Useem on what got you here won’t get you there or reinventing yourself as you move forward: “The factors that led others to select you to manage a team,

Leading Thoughts for December 16, 2021

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi on leadership: “The fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways to shape the decades ahead, not just react to the present, and

The Best Leadership Books of 2021

The political environment in the United States as elsewhere is driven by fear-based narratives. And that feeds our approach in society at large. It leads to short-term thinking. That’s not the way to lead. Leadership is about hope. Former PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi wrote, “the fundamental role of a leader is to look for ways

Leading Thoughts for December 9, 2021

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Michael Dell on success: “Success is not a straight line up. It’s fail, learn, try again, then (you hope) succeed. How successful you are is really a function of how

Speak Your Truth So That Others Can Hear It

WE often live in the dilemma of sharing what’s on our mind directly and truthfully or mollifying and suppressing what we really think. This, however, is a false dichotomy. We don’t just have to share our truth in a toxic way or suppress it. The other choice is to learn to speak our truth effectively,

Leading Thoughts for December 2, 2021

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Amelia Dunlop on Elevating the human experience: “Elevating the human experience is about acknowledging intrinsic worth as a human and nurturing growth through love. Sometimes the person we need to

First Look: Leadership Books for December 2021

Here’s a look at some of the best leadership books to be released in December 2021. Don’t miss out on other great new and future releases not listed here.   Fixed. How to Perfect the Fine Art of Problem Solving by Amy E Herman With Amy Herman’s Fixed., we now have access to what the

LeadershipNow 140: November 2021 Compilation

Here are a selection of tweets from November 2021 that you don’t want to miss: What Jim Harbaugh Did To Get His Players To Believe In Themselves from @JohnBaldoni When Things Get Crazy, Look for Ways To Empower Your Team by Karin Hurt @LetsGrowLeaders The Great Re-Evaluation by @gvanourek It may be more than a

Leading Thoughts for November 25, 2021

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Pastor Will Johns on seeing the world through the lens of gratitude: “Gratitude is a lens that changes the perception of everything in your life. Your world will be transformed.

Leading Thoughts for November 11, 2021

IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Scientist Edward O. Wilson on the unification of knowledge: “The ongoing fragmentation of knowledge and resulting chaos in philosophy are not reflections of the real world but artifacts of scholarship.