Condoleezza Rice: Session 2 – The Leadership Summit

Former U.S. Secretary of State, Professor of Political Science at the Stanford Graduate School of Business ?    Former Stanford University Provost—responsible for a $1.5 billion annual budget and the academic program for 1,400 faculty members and 14,000 students ?    Author and co-author of numerous books, including: No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in […]

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Global Leadership Summit – Bill Hybels

Founder and Senior Pastor, Willow Creek Community Church – South Barrington, IL ▪    Founded The Global Leadership Summit, now in 200+ U.S. sites, 260+ cities worldwide, and 85 countries ▪    Committed to developing and mentoring leaders worldwide, including those in some of the most difficult, overlooked and under-resourced countries ▪    Best-selling author of more than […]

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Global Leadership Summit Begins

Hey everyone! Today and tomorrow I’ll be blogging live from the Willow Creek Association Global Leadership Summit.  I apologize in advance for the unusual number of posts but I promise the content is going to be great! Be sure to follow the twitter feed of the team I’m blogging with today! @JustinWise @TonyMorgan @TimSchraeder @LauraOrtberg […]

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Are You Abandoning Your Staff?

It took me years to discover this negative leadership trait in myself… Abandonment. The more I trusted one of my team members the more I tended to abandon them.  It wasn’t that I was disinterested or didn’t care, it was that I had such faith in their ability that I would abandon them in order […]

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Global Leadership Summit 2012

It’s time for the annual Global Leadership Summit! I’ll be heading there next Thursday and Friday to be a part of the blogging team for the event.  You know us leadership junkies love an opportunity for a couple of power-packed days of leadership content! Will you be joining us for the Summit? It’s not too […]

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Winning Teams & Personal Defeat

Like most of you, I was glued to the television last night watching the USA women’s gymnastics team trials.  Every Olympics I marvel at how young these girls are. The pressure.  The stress.  The focus.  The maturity.  So much for such youth! (Pic source) But something else got my attention last night… The encouragement.  The […]

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Winning Teams & Personal Defeat

Like most of you, I was glued to the television last night watching the USA women’s gymnastics team trials.  Every Olympics I marvel at how young these girls are. The pressure.  The stress.  The focus.  The maturity.  So much for such youth! (Pic source) But something else got my attention last night… The encouragement.  The […]

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Born, Made or Gifted?

In a recent interview, I was asked, “are leaders born, made or gifted?” My answer? All of the above. I do believe that great leaders are born with natural instincts and personality traits that equip them for leadership, but I also believe that leadership has to be developed.  A Fast Company article posted today said […]

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It's Your Job to Coach!

While I’m not a parent myself (other than to my Border Collie whom you non-dog-loving folks won’t count as legit), I do have a great group of little friends who I adore spending time with.  These are my little buddies that I take out to see the latest Disney movie, bake cookies with, get manicures […]

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It’s Your Job to Coach!

While I’m not a parent myself (other than to my Border Collie whom you non-dog-loving folks won’t count as legit), I do have a great group of little friends who I adore spending time with.  These are my little buddies that I take out to see the latest Disney movie, bake cookies with, get manicures […]

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