How to Lead in a Failing World ( Without Losing Yourself)
Truth: I’m using AI Also Truth: I wrote a book 10 years ago about leadership and having a powerful personal presence. Now I’m rewriting it. With the help of AI to research, update my language and add the current ideas about inclusion and human flourishing.
Leadership today isn’t about climbing ladders—it’s about building bridges.
When everything around you feels uncertain, your values become your compass. Influence begins by leading yourself with clarity and character.
What’s one value you won’t compromise, no matter what’s happening around you?
From Fearful to Fearless:
Every confident speaker once shook in their shoes.
How to Answer “Tricky” Questions
When you stay calm, clarify with repetition, and bridge back to your core ideas, you guide the dialogue rather than chase it. The result? You come across as thoughtful, credible, and persuasive exactly the qualities clients and colleagues remember.
Presumption
Etiquette requires the presumption of good until the contrary is proved.” ― Emily Post, Emily Post On Etiquette
No work
What is more perfect on Labor Day than no work? No washing and drying of too many dishes and silverware Fancy napkins or not Making it pretty too! Seems the best way to make it pretty and no work is to use paper everything. Paper plates are a good starting place. But...
Business Slow
Business is Slow - now what? Be tender with yourself during the slow times in your business. I panicked all the time – Too much business – get it done, get it done, do it right, get it done. I panicked when there was too little business. Get more work, get more...
Hopeful, tender and dedicated
Hopeful Tender Dedicated.... “To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.” Rebecca Solnit is an American writer. She has written on a variety of...
Tender
Be Tender Being tender does take a little practice. I would recommend you practice stoicism. Stoicism It is an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. The school taught that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge, and that the...
Outcomes
Outcomes Outcomes vs. activity. When the activity of practicing the violin matches the outcome of having a seat in an orchestra. Goal accomplished. But when business owners are so easily distracted by activity, and miss our goal and to wallow in the sea of...
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