I will be presenting Golden Lion Cannes Award-winning Director Corydon Wagner February 27, 6-8pm. As a successful entrepreneur who leads projects with billions of dollars at play, he will present what business leaders can learn from directing and producing film. Sign up here. Below is the announcement text with a link to Wagner’s page. Business today forces leaders to form and lead teams under difficult conditions, even where few team[…] Keep reading →
[This post is part of a series on people who succeed despite adversity. If you don’t see a Table of Contents to the left, click here to view the series, where you’ll get more value than reading just this post.] Continuing my series on people who succeeded adversity, I’ll start with deaf football player in today’s Superbowl, as shown in these two videos. and Person Achievement Adversity Derrick Coleman First[…] Keep reading →
Nearly everyone I know wishes their boss or manager led better or at least differently. They act like they are powerless to motivate or influence their boss. Motivating and influencing your boss is one of the main things I work on with clients. It’s also one of the most empowering things they experience. Yes, dealing with a hard-to-deal-with manager can be encouraging, not discouraging. I’ll give a top-level overview of[…] Keep reading →
Do you see your colleagues more as people or do you work and relate with them more based on their place on the organization chart? Over and over clients come to me with similar perspectives and challenges. Often they see their managers as people to please, whom they want to learn about but never do because they don’t feel it their place to get to know him or her… as[…] Keep reading →
Many of my clients tell me they want leadership positions. Come to think of it, many of them are already in what most people would call leadership positions. They manage people, direct them, decide on bonuses, hiring, and firing, and so on. But they aren’t satisfied with their current positions. They don’t know why. They just think they’ll like things more when they are higher on the organizational chart or[…] Keep reading →
The article “Do Women-Only Initiatives Really Help Women?” began Recently I’ve noticed an uptick in “women-focused†pitches in my inbox. It seems in the last year there has been a lot of momentum in the “women-focused†space. Women accelerators, women incubators, women crowdfunding sites, women angel funds. We’ve covered some of those initiatives here and here at Nibletz, but I have to admit I’ve been a little ambivalent about doing[…] Keep reading →
Want to motivate people more effectively? Come to my January 18 seminar, “How to Lead People So They Want You to Lead Them Again,” with the Columbia Business School Alumni Club of New York, which will be held at NYU-Stern, conveniently located in Greenwich Village. Past attendees of this seminar rated it very highly. Below is the text from the CBSACNY announcement: Effective leaders motivate people from the inside –[…] Keep reading →