As I have gotten older, I have recognized that knowing what you don’t know… admitting it and...
Leadership topic - engage
Engage is step one of the empower framework: leaders who engage lead in clear communication throughout their organizations. Leads with questions, with an open personal presence and outstanding communications skills. Communicates a compelling and inspired shared vision or sense of core purpose; Creates a climate in which people want to do their best; Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings; one-on-one, small, and large groups;
Roadblock – Always thinks they have the right and only answer; focuses on the answer, always the smartest person in the room
Start with Positive Intelligence, Change or Preparation, then see how it plays out across the Eric Clapton series.
engaging Preparation
If you are involved in the latest thing in IT development, you have probably heard the term...
Persistent engagement
Now that you know the Team, there are still a few stories that are worth spinning around my tour...
engaging the Promise…
Our group was "Advanced Technologies," doing cutting-edge work with the Promise of Object...
Can Change renew?
Our offices in Crystal City were magnificent, with my boss having a great view of the city. It was...
What Thanks engage you?
Leaving something is never easy, particularly when I hadn't actually looked for a job in over 13...
Change execution…
The whole concept of LeadingWithMusic is to talk about using the power of Music to Change the way...
The Change of wonder…
Today's story starts in a Maryland suburb with a kid graduating from high school and started at a...
What does Change observe?
So at this point, we were trying to get a staid Federal manufacturing facility to become "lean"...
Change partners…
If you ever are asked to work a business show, my advice would be say NO. You stand in a booth...
Do you manage Change, or….
Being "different" was a core competency of not just me, but my boss for this season, and probably...
SO… engage with Change?
As you might have guessed from last week, despite saying we would never move to DC, by the Summer...
Hopeful engagement…
Our little card was starting to get some notice across IBM, and for our little team, I was...
engaging with Fun…
Where does Fun begin?We were into our second week of touring Europe with the kids. I realized...













