Prelude:   Each Monday LSI presents a VIP profile…focusing on contributions

and the leadership strategy that led to success. Each post concludes using an equation that was initially presented in my book, The “I” of the Hurricane: How to generate and focus corporate energy. The following will help you understand the conclusion summary...

We deny ourselves and fellow workers one of life’s most pleasurable

experiences when we side step opportunities to laugh heartily.  I’ve noticed myself responding with a polite chuckle or silent grin, to situations that left unchecked would double me over.  Political correctness has sent a misguided “ life is not to be laughed at” message...

Market analysis, branding, strategy formation, planning, managing cash

From the moment of birth, humans have an insatiable appetite for recognition.  As herding creatures, we are programmed to support and be supported by one another.  The primal instinct to belong and be valued is so powerful that fear of rejection can cause mental and physical trauma.  Our evolution into a productive group member began with mother...

Looking “out there” for a source of energy and happiness—to another

Researchers claim that happiness, beyond the accommodation of basic needs, is not influenced by education, social standing, or income.  Joy, they suggest, comes from an individual’s capacity to extract pleasure from both special events and routine activities associated with daily living. Psychologist and philosopher Eric Fromm, a holocaust survivor...

Before the age of five, we learn most of what we need to survive.  We

learned the essentials not by listening, but by watching what the adults in our life (the people who had  power over us) were doing.  Prior to developing our verbal skills, we didn’t understand what Mom and Dad were saying, but we discerned much from their tone, body language...

unsung but amoung the very bestExecutives who are not extroverts by nature

can learn much from Omar Bradley’s leadership style.  Unlike Generals Eisenhower and Patton, this leader has been relegated to  sidebar status in the annals of WWII. Jim DeFelice in his new book,  Omar Bradley: General at War  labels Bradley “the man who won WWII”.  ...

Success stories (large or small) provide positive examples of ‘living

the culture’.   Everyone learns and integrates new behavior more easily when real situations are used to illustrate. Employees identify more easily with the possibility of their own success when they have a chance to resonate with what others have done.  Identifying with...

executive signalingCoaching the CEO’s of Fortune listed companies was

a component of major change initiatives facilitated by Achieve.  It involved the clarification of values, helping the client focus a vision of the preferred future, and promoting the benefits of process-discipline over personal-authority.  Getting CEO’s to support and participate...

Physiologists call it being ‘centered’ and athletes refer to it as

entering the ‘zone’.  There are other names for this special state of being—where a person or a team thinks, feels, and performs beyond their usual skill level. Inspirational-leadership is what fosters the normalization of breakthrough performances.  With discipline, consistency...

Leadership (not position) is the motivating force that drives self and

others to leave the status quo and strive for higher levels of performance.  Inspirational-leadership involves heart, not just the head and hands—it’s an act of creation, not control.  Positions don’t create or inspire…people do.  If you want to be a leader, you’ll...