Lead Change Group

Join us for the January call / webinar: Lead Change – Past, Present and Future.  We’re trying some new things.  We’ll be doing a webinar because the calls are getting a lot of participants and leaving an open conference call was getting confusing.  We’re also going to do the same presentation at two different times [...]

A friend of mine has recently launched a blog with an interesting purpose. Don Shapiro (LinkedIn Profile, @DonShapiro1) came up with an idea to pursue the decisions people make with a blog called Life Is A Fork In The Road.  The premise is that our life is made up of several, maybe even hundreds of [...]

The original idea for the Lead Change Group was launched on March 30, 2009. It rose out of my desire to develop as a leader and build quality leaders. I prefer action to inaction, so rather than hoping someone else would do something, I began the group. My goal was to act on my belief [...]

Shared vision takes time. First you must appreciate other contributors.  Shared means shared.  If you supply the team vision, others must adopt it.  You can’t pick the level of effort needed for them to adopt your vision. You don’t decide how hard or easy it will be to get them to fully share and appreciate [...]

Roy Atkinson is one of the cool people I’ve met on-line during this past year.  He’s @royatkinson on Twitter and a member of the Lead Change Group on LinkedIn.  He’s passionate about leadership and technology and hails from Maine.  I’ve even referred to him as the CHO of the group (Chief Humor Officer) because of [...]

In America, our founding fathers built and shared a great vision that people could govern themselves.  The vision was very complex as was the government that they established. Their great vision marked-out their greatness both individually and as a group. Do you have a great vision? If you’re a leader, you probably do.  Even if [...]

Dr. Eli Sopow will be the presenter on the November Lead Change Conference call.  The call is scheduled for November 16th at 5:00 PM Eastern. Systems theory illustrates how one small change can make a huge difference by using the metaphor of a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil. Ultimately that flap of a wing [...]

We have seen the enemy… Do you ever get tired of going through the motions? You know what I mean. In a bit of passive aggression, we give less than our best because our heart is just not in the activity.  We do what we have to and no more.  Can you think of times [...]

In a discussion a few days ago, Mandy Vavrinak made an observation that I promised to write about. She has a knack with words and can typically apply precise wording to a particular effort or idea. She said I was “at war with apathy.” The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines apathy as: A lack of feeling [...]

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been talking about strengths.  This is the final post in a 5-part evaluation of Strengths. Strengths are the combination of Energy, Talents and Passions. But strengths without achievement are nothing.  Achievement, significant, material, long lasting, world-changing achievements seem to always result from the application of strengths. Therefore I suggest the [...]