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My good friend Catherine Ryan Hyde, bestselling author of Pay It Forward, inspired our very popular “Inspire Change” coins. Now she has written another tour de force, this time about first love, a modern-day rendering of West Side Story born on a New York City subway car and nurtured under the windmills of the Mojave [...]
I lead two lives. One is dedicated to coaching and mentoring leaders and transforming organizational cultures so they become inspiring places for employees, customers, suppliers and communities. Thirty of Fortune’s Most Admired Companies and 11 of Fortune’s Best Companies to Work for in America are our clients. And I speak to audiences all over the [...]
Window In The Skies Video Clip [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9UNMePNOmk[/youtube] Those familiar with the work of the Secretan Center will know we are passionate about many things, two of which are: Mastery – Undertaking whatever you do to the highest standards of which you are capable; and Inspiration, and, I have argued, models that set the standard may [...]
The following has been contributed by Gregg Thompson and Susanne Biro . They frame together this interesting idea in their book “Unleashed! Expecting Greatness and Other Secrets to coaching for Exceptional Performance“: Dangerous Conversations How often do you engage in the kind of conversation that stimulates changes in performance? Reflect on the few significant conversations [...]
My wife and I have been noticing a growing decline in civility – not so much in the big things (although in that too), but in the little things – like opening doors or holding them open for others, giving up seats to seniors, helping people into cars, saying thank you or sorry, inviting others [...]