BARKINGS ON LIFE, LEARNING, AND LEADERSHIP...AND ALL STOPS IN BETWEEN!

Tapping into my inner-Hap

2012-04-24T05:53:48-05:00

Fast forward to April 20, 2012. I am sitting in a conference of amazing women leaders in Chicago. The theme was resilience. Truth be told, I wasn't feeling especially resilient that day. This...

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Are you an elevator or an escalator?

2012-04-08T17:31:05-05:00

There are always going to be problems, decisions, conflicts, issues that are bigger than you. You will have to take them up the food chain. But in doing so, you can be an escalator (escalating,...

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Resistance, Resilience or Reinvention?

2012-03-04T07:00:00-06:00

I've written about my own reinvention--which was literally triggered by a clicking noise 18 months ago. But this got me thinking about the clicking noises we all hear and the choices we make to...

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2012: In ALL CAPS

2012-01-06T10:34:48-06:00

So this year, as I enter the marketing phase of this book project, my “just ask” expands to something bolder around BE COURAGEOUS. That phrase just begs to be in ALL CAPS, doesn’t it? Maybe that’s...

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Influence: Five things that build it; Five things that weaken it

2011-11-28T17:26:00-06:00

Influence is a hot topic. The #1 most asked question I get as a consultant, coach and instructor is, "How can I get people whom I have no authority over to do what I need them to do?"

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Seven communication assumptions that are killing your credibility

2011-11-15T17:04:09-06:00

So, here’s how it goes. You are moving fast and you assume: They know. They don’t know. Somebody else already told them. They don’t need to know. I’m the one to tell them. I know how to tell them...

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Partnerships at Work: The final installment--Don't wait for them!

2011-10-25T10:50:31-05:00

Too often I hear people say that that their partner isn’t partnering, so they themselves are unable to partner, or feel it would be a waste of time to attempt to partner. This is the biggest mistake...

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4 things writing a book about "the matrix" taught me about my own matrix

2011-10-14T12:18:10-05:00

For the past 12 months I have been immersed in researching, writing and now marketing a book on matrix organizations--those complex maze-like apparatuses that so many of us have to work through to...

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Partnerships at Work, Part Four: Be willing

2011-07-27T05:00:00-05:00

This is the fourth in a series of posts on partnerships at work, although this is focused on matrix roles, partnerships and the mindsets behind them are crucial in all types of work roles. The five...

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Partnerships at Work, Part Three: Be Open

2011-07-24T06:00:00-05:00

This is the third in a series of posts on partnerships at work, although this is focused on matrix roles, partnerships and the mindsets behind them are crucial in all types of work roles. The five...

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