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Are your emails piling up? Unread text messages got you bogged down? Are you feeling overcommitted? ...I just returned from vacation, I’m halfway through my first day back, and already I feel like I need another vacation. Don’t get me wrong – my vacation was relaxing and helped me recharge. What tir...
Anything less than the World Cup trophy would be a failure. That was the expectations laid upon the United States Women’s National Team (USWNT). The entire country — correction, the entire world — expected the USWNT to win the World Cup. The pressure to perform was substantial. Every opponent was g...
Read Strategic Planning Part I: Critical Items Leaders Must Consider Key Takeaways: Question potential consultants (facilitators): Understand what they’re suggesting. Be transparent: Create trust for the greatest impact. Diversity matters: Include everyone. Have you ever been the recipient of a stra...
Good visions start with good dreams. Visions are important for organizations. A vision implies that the leader possesses and communicates a positive, compelling, and moving goal that followers can connect to group goals, motivating and inspiring followers to achieve excellence. 1 Visions provide foc...
I lead a small team who is charged with providing innovative leadership development experiences to a large number of students. Over the past few years in this role, I’ve found that there are times when we’re creative – cooking with gas, as it were – and other times, our ability to create innovative ...
Coach Urban Meyer describes it as ‘Solving the Mystery’; that sense of enlightenment and mastery when an athlete achieves true appreciation for their teammates. It is that critical point when athletes shed that self-centered, egotistical nature and start competing for their teammates as well as livi...
As a mom with a toddler, the day I’ve been dreading is finally in view – potty training. As I’ve been reading articles, books and psyching myself and our child up for this day, I’ve been reminded of the importance of emotions on outcomes. Let me explain. Most of these books reflect on the need for p...
When we look back to last January, I’m sure a lot of us expected 2020 and the beginning of a new decade to be a lot less volatile. A coronavirus pandemic, the public killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, another hyper-polarized election cycle and the fall resurgence of COVID-19...
Lori Kendall, PhD Dr. Kendall has 25+ years’ experience as a serial entrepreneur and technology executive for venture-backed and publicly traded firms. She is a Silicon Valley veteran in software, hardware, and communications, with a primary focus on both new venture creation and private equity piv...
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. Talent isn’t enough. It helps, but talent alone will not make you a winner or a champion. No matter what you do i...
