RealTime Leadership

Zuckerberg, EQ, Chopra and Benjamin Franklin

Sean Murray — Wed, 09 May 2012 22:31:45 +0000

How Mark Zuckerberg has grown into his role as CEO of Facebook. Emotional Intelligence as a predictor of success. Video of my friend Jit Chopra addressing a group of executives on the creative process. If you like my post on “start with the bad ideas first“, then you’ll love to hear Jit tell the story about [...]

Understanding by Design

Sean Murray — Mon, 07 May 2012 21:39:22 +0000

The Understanding by Design (UdB) framework was introduced to me by John Hart of Marriott. John is a former middle-school teacher and he is applying the UbD framework – originally developed for K-12 – to corporate training. It is all new to me, but from what I can tell, I think the corporate training world [...]

RealTime Performance Resource Round-up: Communication

Sean Murray — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:51:04 +0000

The RealTime Performance Resource Round-up is a new series where we highlight recently published articles, videos, books and blogs on various subjects. This first post includes 6 resources on Communication. Whether it’s the CEO or an individual contributor responsible for customer service, communication plays a critical role in any organization. Effective communicators contribute to an organization’s success [...]

Employee Engagement: More Than a 9 to 5 Job

Sean Murray — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:40:48 +0000

Although it’s more than 30 years old, the movie 9 to 5 is still ranked the 20th highest-grossing comedy film of all time. It’s no surprise why: the storyline resonates with anyone who has ever been dissatisfied at work. Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton inspire even the most disgruntled among us with their [...]

Powerful Presentations

Sean Murray — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 18:55:58 +0000

We all remember presentations that had an impact on us. They could have been delivered by a politician, business leader or even our own manager. It might have been a message so strong that we wanted to immediately convey that same message to others. Or, a story that had such an impact that we re-told [...]

John Wooden on Success

Sean Murray — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 21:24:39 +0000

As a young high school English teacher in South Bend, Indiana in the 1930s, John Wooden, the legendary former coach of the UCLA men’s basketball team, was not satisfied with the prevailing definition of success. The conventional wisdom was (and still is) that success is the accumulation of possessions and power. This definition was unsatisfactory to John, [...]

5 Steps to Business Impact

Sean Murray — Fri, 13 May 2011 22:33:19 +0000

I will be speaking at the 2011 ASTD International Conference in Orlando (May 22nd – 25th) on how to achieve business results from training. The following is a description of the presentation and learning outcomes for the event. Those of us who have been in and around the learning industry a long time know that the [...]

The 8 Most Important Qualities of Leadership at Google

Sean Murray — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:50:06 +0000

For most of Google’s history, and especially in the early years, it took a laissez-faire policy toward leadership. The company hired smart engineers, promoted the most brilliant into leadership positions and then pretty much left them alone. The assumption was that they were smart and would figure it out or ask questions if they needed help. [...]

How Effective Leaders Deal with Information Overload

Sean Murray — Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:00:45 +0000

Information overload is not only a productivity killer; it can also lead to low morale, anxiety and mistakes. The U.S. Military has identified “information overload” as the underlying cause of several major mistakes in the war in Afghanistan, and is taking steps to address the issue. A recent article in the New York Times explains [...]

How Technology is Impacting Leadership

Sean Murray — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 06:22:06 +0000

The wonders of technology are all around us. Smart phones, ipads, kindles, email, apps, GPS, blogs and twitter to name just a few examples. But step back for a moment and consider the impact of this technology on leadership. There is a famous essay in the the Atlantic titled “Is Google Making Us Stupid“. The author, Nicholas [...]