Conscious Leader

Category: Leadership

Feedback: Termination

Nobody likes to be fired or to fire someone, and many leaders perceive firing as doing something “bad” to another person. My philosophy about terminating

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Feedback – Redirection

We all need people who give us feedback.That’s how we improve.”Bill Gates When teaching feedback skills in my graduate leadership class, I start by asking

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Organizational Culture

The culture was 1. cut-offs and halter tops,mud fights and partying 2. business suits and high heels,bureaucracy and conformity 3. dressy casual, gregarious,and competitive 4.

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Purpose: Achieving It

In the business and corporate world, achieving purpose is usually described in terms of planning, strategic planning, decision making, and innovation. Sometimes inspiration and passion

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Purpose: The Hype

There’s a lot of hype about living your purpose / passion leading to “happily  ever after”. Not necessarily. Some of our most honored leaders –

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Purpose – Resisting It

You’d think from the huge amount of how-to information / books /workshops about finding your purpose, that everybody is wholeheartedly seeking it. Yet I often

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Purpose & Synchronicity

Carl Jung introduced the concept of synchronicity – meaningful coincidences and events. He theorized all people, animals, plants and inanimate objects were linked through a

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