I facilitate an exercise in my Leadership Development Program where I ask each participant to identify the best leader who he/she has ever known. This leader can be from the past or present, be real or fictional and can come from any walk of life (business, sports, politics, community, religion, etc.). I next ask participants [...]
Janice Marturano, in her excellent book Finding the Space to Lead...A Practical Guide to Mindful Leadership describes the mindful leader as one who "embodies leadership presence by cultivating focus, clarity, creativity and compassion in the service of others. Marturano writes that "mindful leadership does not ask you to change everything and everyone around you. It teaches [...]
In the brilliant book, The Whole Brain Business Book, authors Ned Herrmann and Ann Herrmann-Nehdi do an excellent change describing why it is so difficult for individuals, teams and organizations to change. In the must-read chapter Making Change Work, the authors cite the following reasons why changing people’s mind is so difficult: Mindsets are powerful [...]
