Dennis “Chip” Wilson is out as chairman of Lululemon Athletica, the highly successful entrepreneurial venture he founded. And it’s all because he said something stupid. Brian Hutchison of The National Post argues that he “isn’t dead yet … he’s just resting.” A funny choice of words when you consider they were originally used to describe […]
Below is a re-post from David Kalson’s blog, introducethenew.com. In the movie “Lincoln,” President Lincoln is portrayed as a leader who understood that the historic moment to eradicate slavery was upon him and on his generation. The opportunity, he believed, was now or never. Lincoln also understood that his followers had to lead as well, so […]
Let me tell you a secret: I am a workaholic. I tend to become so focused on (and controlling of) my work that I fail to realize there is a whole other world out there. I assumed that good leaders set good examples by making the office and their careers high priorities. The reality is […]
The first time I made an investment in the stock market I was a young man in August of 1987. It was exciting to pick stocks and mutual funds that I thought would help grow my asset portfolio over time. Unfortunately the biggest stock market crash in history occurred on October 19, 1987. So it […]
Visionary risk-taking and pragmatic thinking define the leadership of Virginia Rometty, IBM’s first female CEO. “Really early, early in my career, I can remember being offered a big job,” she said. “Right away I said, ‘You know what? I’m not ready for this job.” When she told her husband, he asked “Do you think a […]
Over the years, leadership training conferences at ProActive Communications have proven to be essential opportunities for energizing our business and creating new concepts and innovations in client services as well as new business applications. “Grow Forward” is the theme of the 2011 Summer Leadership Training Week at ProActive Communications. This year over two-dozen staff members […]
At any age, we are never too far away from childhood. Even as professionals, we require repetition, repetition, repetition of basic principles in order to grow. Ironically, applying a constant situational analysis approach to decision making can get you mired in inefficient details and behavioral dynamics in the workplace. Instead, try reinforcing “principal principles” every […]