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It’s Time for Leaders To Follow

With the Social Age clearly at our door step – 1.2 billion people use social media and 4.6 billion carry mobile phones – it is time for leaders to rethink leadership.

Why you ask?

For good reasons:

  • In the industrial Age, organizations got bigger in order to become more profitable;   In the […]
By |October 25th, 2012|Leadership|1 Comment

The New Collaboration Generation

I attended my sons graduation at University of Pennsylvania this week, and the President of the school, Ann Gutmann, announced that the old model of leadership and governance was outdated and needed to be overhauled.

In her speech to the graduating class of 2012, she noted that when the printing […]

Using Social Technology to Pay it Forward

It was Labor Day, 2009, and I stepped out of my car in NYC to see the US Open.   As an avid tennis player and a member of a nationally ranked doubles team with my oldest son, we had had a good summer on the national father-son tennis […]

Who’s the Man in the Mirror?

We have all become very used to seeing ourselves in the mirror. Every morning, we look for small signs of aging and hope that other blemishes already tagged as possible aging signs have disappeared from yesterday’s viewing displeasure. When these tagged blemishes are spotted again, we mutter something about […]

By |December 23rd, 2011|Leadership|0 Comments

Kindness Matters at Work

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. –Plato

On Average, Americans spend nearly 50 hours a week working — among the highest number in the world. But if you are on a fast track, or working to keep your job, build your business, or embrace today’s […]

Lost Meanings

As Marshall McCluhen said years ago, the medium is the message. Money is our medium of value and the language of money is layered with meaning. However, many times we have lost the true understanding and meaning of the medium and therefore the message of what really matters – […]