by Constance | Oct 3, 2019 | Leadership
It is common and even popular to be cynical about business and what it takes to progress in one’s career.Far from what is depicted in Dilbert cartoons, I have the privilege of working with leaders and talented people who are driven by a desire for achievement. Of...
by Constance | Jul 25, 2019 | Leadership
The word vulnerability is used and bandied about in a manner that assumes it is a universal good. It isn’t. When a leader is vulnerable in a way that is honest and appropriate, it is powerful and often constructive but, when vulnerability is not mediated by boundaries...
by Constance | Jun 14, 2019 | Business Growth, Leadership
People think professors are smart but often impractical – and sometimes that’s true. The best teachers simplify the complex and help us see how to use knowledge in pragmatic ways. Dr. Frances Frei does precisely that. She is a professor at Harvard Business...
by Constance | Apr 4, 2019 | Blog, Leadership
The business news is filled with stories of failed mergers or acquisitions. Recently, the dramatic loss of value of General Electric was blamed, in part, on a string of ill-advised acquisitions. Estimates of the rate of failure (failure to deliver the value described...
by Constance | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog, Leadership
We are now just over a week into a new year and, already, many have found their resolve waning. No matter what the resolutions, it takes little time for the barriers that we thought were speed bumps to loom large and cast a shadow that creates doubt. That said, most...
by Constance | Nov 8, 2018 | Leadership, You Mean I Must Change?
Why Vulnerability Isn’t A Universal Good Most everyone has experienced a colleague or boss who shares too much. Three lanes outbound, one lane inbound. How about the colleague who loops around the same beltway, over and over and over but can’t keep the process to...
