You Are Awesome
By: Neil Pasricha Reviewed by: Susan MacKenzie The Premise: This is a book about resilience. I read “You are Awesome” for the first time sitting on a tropical beach. Shortly
June 29, 2020
Roundtable Talk Blog
#leadershiptruth Video: Job Expectations are Like Quicksand
Do you know what your boss’s expectations are of you? Does your team know what you expect from them? In this #leadershiptruth video, I share a quick, easy expectations grid
June 26, 2020
Mentoring Matters – Jennifer Smith
Roundtable Member, Jennifer Smith, Director of Sales & Marketing Operations at Johnson & Johnson Medical Companies shares her tips for navigating a complex leadership environment to keep projects on track.
June 24, 2020
Mentoring Matters – Kaitlynn Furse
Roundtable Member, Kaitlynn Furse, Director of Corporate Communications at CAA Club Group shares her tips for navigating a complex leadership environment to keep projects on track. “We all have many
June 24, 2020
#leadershiptruth – Job Expectations are Like Quicksand
Welcome to the VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous) world. Gotta love that an acronym developed by the US military has now gone mainstream as a way to describe today’s
June 23, 2020
#leadershiptruth Video: Never Underestimate Your Worth
Did you see Tuesday’s #leadershiptruth? Dig in as I explore why we downplay our strengths, what we’ve accomplished, and all of the knowledge and skills we’ve acquired over our years
June 19, 2020
#leadershiptruth – Never underestimate your expertise.
My Dad had a saying ‘never believe so-called experts’. His point being that most of the time people advised him to do things with a degree of ‘authority’, when their
June 16, 2020
#leadershiptruth – You can’t drink half a cup of poison
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to be collaborative. I don’t know about you, but every time I’ve waffled on a decision that I feel strongly about in my gut because people
June 9, 2020
#leadershiptruth – Knowing is easier than doing
It’s one thing to know what to do. It’s a completely different exercise to actually do what you need to do. Every year I meet many people who know that
June 2, 2020
The Alter Ego Effect
By: Todd Herman Reviewed by: Liyana Johan The Premise: Todd Herman is a high-performance coach for ambitious people who want to achieve outrageous goals. He’s coached athletes, entrepreneurs, leaders, and
May 28, 2020
#leadershiptruth – 99% of us do it wrong
Are you a leader that’s adept at balancing both results and people? You easily drive the bottomline without burning people out? Your results scores are as high as your engagement
May 26, 2020
#leadershiptruth – It doesn’t matter
There’s an expression that goes treat everything as if it’s the only thing that matters, knowing that it doesn’t matter at all. How often do you carry situations in your
May 19, 2020
#leadershiptruth – Question routine
So how many meetings do you go to each week because they were in your calendar from the time you moved into your job? How many things do you do
May 12, 2020
#leadershiptruth – Park your preferences
We all have a preferred way of doing things. You may prefer that your colleagues proactively come to you with problems. You may prefer to think through answers rather than
May 5, 2020
Forged in Crisis: The Making of Five Courageous Leaders
By: Nancy Koehn Reviewed by: Shelby Gobbo The Premise: Harvard Business School Professor Nancy Koehn highlights the profiles of five remarkable leaders and uses their profiles and stories to produce
April 30, 2020