Category Archives: Leadership Skills

March 26, 2021

“You Gotta Understand”

I hate it when people tell me, “You have to understand that…” My immediate visceral response is “no, I do not have to understand….(that you think your position is the right one and that all the others, including mine are wrong…)” It’s one of my language “pet peeves.” I was listening to President Biden’s first press conference yesterday, in the car, when he corrected himself in regards to this particular language faux pas. A reporter had asked him a question...

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October 26, 2020

Your Mission Moment

I proudly serve on the Board of the Women’s Center and Shelter here in Pittsburgh and at each Board Meeting, our CEO shares a “Mission Minutes” where she tells us a story of the good work done by our staff and the success of a client who overcomes enormous adversity that helps put her life back on track. We each could do well to share our own Mission Minute about the work we are doing and how it is impacting...

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September 11, 2020

Jane Fraser, The New CEO of Citibank: A Model of Leadership Development

Jane Fraser will be the next CEO of Citibank. She is the first woman chosen to be the CEO of a major money-centered bank. A remarkable accomplishment that is well overdue given the remarkable experiences she’s accrued over the course of her career While we will all watch how she meets the challenges of banking in a pandemic and post-pandemic world, it is clear what has prepared her for this role. Her portfolio of experiences. As my co-author Michael Couch...

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June 18, 2020

The Secret Life of Meetings

If you are sitting in a meeting right now on Zoom or Teams, the odds are that there is a secret life going on among you and your colleagues that everyone knows but no one wants to admit.  It doesn’t take a lot to have a secret meeting life and the truth is that most of us are engaged in it because it helps us be more productive. One part of the secret is about how we are able to...

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August 08, 2019

The Career Success Formula

Strategy Driven Leadership: The Playbook for Developing Your Next Generation of Leaders, I shared with you our “Career Success Formula.” In short, your career success is made up of all your Key Developmental Experiences (KDE’s), such as rolling out a new product and  where you learned the essential skills or  ]“Key Leadership Competencies” (KLC’s) that were needed to complete the job, such as getting everyone on board and behind the new product. Learning from the experiences is enhanced by regular reflection...

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