Is Your Leadership Creating or Destroying Value?

Building Resilience in an Environment of Change – Stories

Today we have a guest post from Maria Polak, one of our associates and also faculty member at Otterbein University and Franklin University. Almost every day provides information on external changes to organizations and systems that can affect us in many ways.  Market demands in the private sector have already affected those organizations, with resilient [...]

Mike Sayre – Leading with Purpose

In our ongoing series of blog posts about Inspirational Leaders, this post features Mike Sayre talking to a Capital University MBA class. Mike’s sense of vision and professional integrity has long provided a role model for many in the community. He is a regular speaker in my MBA class sharing his experiences with these emerging [...]

End of Year – What Next?

As we approach the end of the year and you do your end of year analysis, look at the balanced scorecards, look at the trends for performance of various sorts – how did you do?  Did you meet your goals?  Exceed your goals?  Were your goals even relevant at the end of the year or [...]

Gratitude Improves Performance and Resilience

Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday to remind us that a gratitude practice can be very powerful tool for improving health and well being as well as mental clarity.  This practice is so beneficial it is part of my daily practice, just like healthy eating.  It is an important part of building resilience.   Advanced research at theInstitute of HeartMath and [...]

Nando Parrado at World Business Forum 2010 – Crisis Management and Living Life

Nando Parrado spoke at the World Business Forum 2010 about Effective leadership amidst chaos: The Miracle of the Andes. Fernando Parrado is one of the survivors of the airplane crash of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 in the Andes in 1972 – one of the greatest survival stories ever. After the accident, he helped publish [...]

James Cameron at World Business Forum 2010 – The power of Innovation, Creativity and Passion

James Cameron is a renowned film writer, producer and director whose films have blazed new trails in visual effects and set numerous performance records both domestically and abroad.  He shared his experience of creating the block buster movie Avatar at World Business Forum 2010. His story illustrates many of the points that speakers over the [...]

AG Lafley at the World Business Forum – Becoming a Creative Culture

A.G. Lafley is the former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of Procter & Gamble, the world’s largest consumer goods company.  He spoke at the World Business Forum about customer centric growth. In response to the question, what would you recommend we do tomorrow when we go back to work, Mr. Lafley [...]

Carlos Brito from World Business Forum 2010 The Power of “Dream, People, Culture”

Carlos Brito talked to the World Business Forum about – Building a Performance Culture.   Better than you: How to Building a Cohesive Team of High Achievers.  Carlos is the CEO of Anheuser-Busch InBev. During 5 mergers and acquisitions we continually asked: why is it that our performance is better than these other companies.  We found [...]