Leadership topic - Sammy Davis Jr

What helps you Perform and authentically lead teams, particularly when the choices are not easy or straightforward?

There are many times that everyone will turn to you as a leader and look for you to…. what? How can you prepare now before that look inevitably comes your way? Some musings on how the ultimate Entertainer navigated a few questions in his own career, and what we might learn from them for us.

Born to Vaudeville dancers in Harlem in 1925, there was really no career choice available to Sammy Davis, Jr., when you engage your first audience at 3, and the performance brings the house down. On the road for most of his life, he later admitted he never learned to read… and yet, his command of a room, a song, and a dance step are great examples of what we now call “executive presence” workshops. His catalog is the perfect soundtrack to a discussion of Perform.