Tag Archive: leadership

Be Right Here, Right Now, to Create an Innovative Work-Life Merge

Digg DiggEvery Monday Work Life Nation features a guest post from an expert on the work-life merge. Today we hear from Jennifer Sertl – a speaker, author and thought leader in the emerging field of corporate consciousness. She is the president of Agility3R ~ an organizational effectiveness company which focuses on executive leadership and employee…

Leadership value of the “Golden Rule,” a memento from #SOBCon

Yes, there are giant corporations where the almighty dollar trumps such a human value. But I’m happy to say that slice of perennial wisdom was alive and well at #SobCon 2010 this year.

Lessons culled from Hillary Clinton’s resiliency factor

Author Rebecca Shambaugh chronicles Clinton’s resilience factor in her new book Leadership Secrets of Hillary Clinton (McGraw-Hill 2010).

Authenticity as a competitive advantage in a global marketplace

But what if our authenticity was looked upon as the competitive advantage? No pressure, but to be authentic in the way we do business as human beings with integrity. CV Harquail PhD is an organizational psychologist who blogs at AuthenticOrganizations.com.

The competitive edge of a better corporate culture

Here’s an illustration from the trenches of a nurturing corporate culture.

A call this morning from a colleague revealed a conundrum. This person had just returned from a leave of absence and found her cubicle had been messed with by the numerous freelancers who had covered her leave.

Quantifying Career Chaos in Recession

Everyone and their brother is writing about, talking about, blogging about – job security. Are the job numbers a harbinger of “the worst is yet to come?” Whether they are or not, if we get caught up in the glass half empty approach, we’re bound to manifest some chaotic episode in our careers or in the workplace

Work/Life Transparency From the Top Down

Wouldn’t it be great to know if your boss was hightailing it out of the office, if it wasn’t frowned upon, and in fact, was an openly acceptable behavior for all – on occasion? A recent study by Deloitte, suggests that kind of transparency might actually improve employee productivity and engagement.

Raising Your Business Profile with an eBook

We’re all scrambling for new ways to boost our business profile in uncertain economic times. One sure fire way to raise some eyebrows is to write an eBook. So says, Mary Martin Ph.D.

Leading with Wisdom

In 2002 an initiative called the Spiritual-Based Leadership Research Programme was launched in Europe by the Global Dharma Center to explore the emerging consciousness of spiritual-based leadership in the workplace and business.

The fruits of this labor is Leading with Wisdom, a book written by Peter Pruzan, Professor Emeritus at the Copenhagen Business School and his wife, Danish journalist – Kirsten Pruzan Mikkelsen.

The Office: A Reminder of What NOT TO DO

The salacious and galling character, Michael Scott, returns in the season premiere of NBC’s comedy, The Office. Played by movie actor Steve Carell, the scandalous boss reminds us of how bad the workplace can be under the thumb of a narcissistic know-it-all who really lacks the smarts to sit in the corner office in the…