Beth Armknecht Miller is a Vistage Chair in Atlanta who provides a great role model of leveraging social media to create a personal brand around being a Vistage Chair. She does a great job using social media tools to amplify her message as a Vistage Chair in her community. One of the blogs I follow [...]
Category Archive for ‘leadership best practices’ 
Why do most companies keep recreating the wheel?
I had an interesting conversation at a presentation yesterday at one of my clients where we were working on performance management improvement. The topic of knowledge sharing came up. Various managers, staff, and field techs keep coming across similar problems and resolutions, yet it doesn’t get shared. I’m curious how other organizations “institutionalize” or “formalize” [...]
What is Tribal Leadership? An Executive Summary
Mark Taylor, a Vistage Chair, wrote a great book review of the book, Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization on his CEO NYC Blog. Mark summarized the book with some of the following comments: Twenty plus years ago, the authors recognized “strategies failed 70 percent of the time.” (p 211) [...]
Employee Engagement - Inside the Mind of a CEO
David Zinger is another of my favorite bloggers with great insight to improving employee engagement, culture, satisfaction, and commitment. He writes a Blog titled “David Zinger Employee Engagement”. In a recent blog posting, David writes about Adam Bryant’s weekly column in the Sunday New York Times called “Corner Office”. Adam interviews various CEOs and Presidents [...]
What's your version of HR Insanity?
Image via Wikipedia Evil HR Lady is one of my favorite blogs to follow. Suzanne Lucas, the funny and sometimes frank HR Guru behind Evil HR Lady, recently wrote on her blog asking for samples of Your Favorite or Least Favorite Policy. I almost doubled over in laughter reading some of these Dilbert-ish comments. What [...]
How Do You Stand Out in a Crowded Field?
How can you stand out in a crowded sea of other leadership or experts in your field? How can you establish your brand as unique? How do you differentiate yourself to the point where CEOs and executives look forward to your postings since they are so different from all the other generic stuff that everyone [...]
