Archive for the 'Leadership' Category

Announcing Our New iPhone App

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

Dear Friends, When I was working in the Czech Republic last year, I met a young team of application developers who loved our Spirit@Work® Cards so much they offered to develop an app for the iPhone and the iPad. It has just been released and is available in the iTunes store for just $2.99. There [...]

Fixing Healthcare

Thursday, April 26th, 2012

This week I was a surgeon’s patient in the hospital (great job, mending well, nothing serious). Usually, I am advising hospital CEOs and leaders how to transform their cultures, create inspiring systems, identify and realize strategies and build efficient organizations. So this was quite a different perspective - and one that generated fresh insights. If we want [...]

Inspiration and Leadership in a Jail

Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012

America has become the world’s largest steward of felons with 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the world’s jailed prisoners – some 6 million people under “correctional supervision”.  According to Fareed Zakaria in his article in Time Magazine, ”In 2011, California spent $9.6 billion on prisons vs. $5.7 billion on the UC system and [...]

The Growing Challenge in Corporate America

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

During a conversation today with senior leaders of one of America’s once great companies, I learned of their plans to cut costs during the next fiscal year. After several years of budget cuts, sales declines, sinking employee morale, stress and burnout, and the theft of personal passion and inspiration, the solution for these leaders is to [...]

Inspire Someone Today

Sunday, March 11th, 2012

Here is a simple idea: If each of us commits to being more inspiring, and we invite all our friends to do the same, and millions do it, we will change the world.  Simple, right? Will you make a commitment today to be more inspiring in your meetings, your e-mails and phone conversations, your communications [...]