Archive for Edge

The Absence of Leadership

The Absence of leadership is often felt by a company, but not recognized. I was recently talking with a friend in a high up position with a national non-profit and she is stuck in an environment that is demotivating, where everyone is playing in their own sandbox and not interested in helping out the team

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Teleclass for Monday, July 14 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern: EDGE: A Leadership Story: The Future of Business From the Minds of Ten Top Professionals

Teleclass: EDGE: A Leadership Story: The Future of Business From the Minds of Ten Top Professionals
Date: Monday, July 14
Time: 7:00 P.M. Eastern
What happens when you get ten top professionals on a call together to discuss the future of business and leadership? You walk away inspired to change the way you think, live and operate in

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Leadership is calling a spade a spade

The buck stops with the leader. Ultimately, they are accountable for the performance of the entire system.  When something is not working, people often make excuses or  avoid taking responsibility and just try to push through, typically leading to further delays in productivity and to results. This is not a luxury the leader has. So

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Leadership is seeing the better solution

You’ll see from a few posts ago that we were having major issues with our online shopping cart. Our design division director was working hard to learn what he needed to learn to create a working shopping cart that enforced our brand. Try as he did, programming is not his focus by profession. He

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Ten Critical Questions to Answer to Drive Innovation

Radical innovation is going to be a critical component in a leader’s toolkit in the future, and this does not mean that you “try to innovate” over a week-end brainstorming retreat. True innovation happens by disrupting the current environment, challenging old assumptions and even turning the culture upside down so that you can take a

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Sometimes…!

I recently had the pleasure and privilege of spending three days with a book client who, of her own volition, flew in from back east to work with me because she wanted to devote some seriously focused time to her project. We spent a grand total of over 36 hours brainstorming, talking, oohing

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Jack Fields Wins N.C. Amateur

My son, Jack, won the N.C. Amateur yesterday, and I want to say “Congratulations Jack. You have worked for a long time to make this happen!” He showed true leadership, and we are all very excited for him.
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Jack will be playing golf for

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How do I stop myself from losing my edge when every day I feel like I’m trudging through quicksand?

I have never met a true leader who is not concerned about losing that leadership edge that is so necessary in today’s world. Technology, education and the global economy are changing with lightning speed and moving forward so quickly. It’s often hard for a leader to know whether or not to go left,

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Upcoming Teleclasses for July

We have a great list of teleclasses coming up in July.
Check out the full list here.

My 360 Degree Challenge Story by Bea Fields

A little less than one year ago, my coach, Sue MacReynolds (who by the way is one of the best executive coaches in the country) asked me if she could perform a 360 Degree Review on me by talking to some of my friends, colleagues, vendors and clients.  I agreed to do so, yet I have

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