The line between what is typical, standard and expected and what isn’t is not thin but as wide as ocean.
The difference is the experience.
What, then, constitutes a genuine, authentic, transformational experience?
How do leaders create these experiences?
These are questions that I’ve been tracking on for almost a year as I’ve worked with a group of local leaders to create a leadership workshop for our community.
It is simple enough do a workshop. I get invites all the time to these things.
Recruit some presenters, secure a site, set a date and market it. People show up. The presenters do their seminars and when done we all go back to the office with a pad full of notes.
Then, when asked about the event, participants talk about the ideas on their notepads, not the experience shared. Within days, maybe hours, the urgency of doing something with those ideas is gone. And they begin to look for the next workshop to get their idea fix. Continued…
Launched back in mid 2009 and here’s the story behind the video. This video reminds me of Professor Michael Wesch’s Web2.0 The Machine is US/ing US which was really the standard setter in this genre of video. If you haven’t watched it or A Vision of Students Today, you should! We’ll make it easy for you: Continued…
With New York grappling with enormous problems, some key Democrats were debating whether such a damaged and distracted leader could run the state. (Front page)
Richard Ravitch has been New York’s Mr. Fix-It for as long as anyone can remember. As lieutenant governor under a stumbling governor, he may be in the role again. (NY Region)
James Fields is an African-American Democratic state legislator in a nearly all-white Alabama county that voted overwhelmingly against Barack Obama. Is he an anomaly or the future? (Magazine)
Tachi Yamada, president of the Global Health Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, says “every moment counts, and that moment is lost if you’re not in that moment 100 percent.” (Business – Corner Office)
Tony Hsieh (@zappos) of Zappos has really set the bar pretty high for other corporate CEO’s on Twitter and he’s been doing it for a long time. He originally joined in June of 2007 and his honest, open approach to using social media has gained him nearly 1,700,000 followers. Hsieh has updated his Twitter account a little over 2,000 times and follows nearly 400,000; so while he might follow you back, don’t expect to have him pay too much attention to where you’re going to dinner tonight. If you want to learn from a corporate leader who knows how to use social media, follow @zappos.
President Barack Obama (@BarackObama verified) Okay we know that he doesn’t actually type out his own updates and he most likely doesn’t even know his own password to log in. But he is the President and he derserves our respect and attention so follow @BarackObama for God and country. President (then Senator) Obama joined on March 5, 2007 (the first person in this project who pre-dates me), has nearly 3,500,000 followers, follows 737,321 and has 584 updates.
Earlier today I learned that my friend Carl passed away suddenly last evening. Carl was not a “leader” in the way we too often visualize the term in people like President Barack Obama or GE CEO Jeff Immelt or the Dali Lama to name a few. But Carl always “exercised leadership” at work and in the community and he will be sorely missed by all.
In his honor, I decided to replay part one of Kansas Leadership Center CEO Ed O’Malley’s interview. Ed talks alot about “exercising leadership” and the importance of making things happen and getting things done. Carl was a guy who always got things done.
Ed O’Malley’s original interview can be listened to on episodes 22 (Part 1) and 23 (Part 2).
Editor in Chief Executive's List of "Bad" Words2010/03/12 Sure, you’d think the chief executive officer of a company struggling to emerge from bankruptcy and desperate to salvage an $8 billion buyout-gone-bad would have better things to do than pester his underlings with crazy proclamations. But in the case of Tribune Co. CEO Randy Michaels, you’d be wrong.
The Making of a Minority CEO | Diversity Executive2010/03/09 David Williams, chief executive officer of Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP shares his experiences about mentors, relationship building and leadership.
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