Your First Success Tip For Innovating in the Workplace

on March 19, 2025

Young Adult and Next Gen Leaders Often Forget This!

There is one thing you need to learn and state at the outset of any project or plan. What does success look like? It’s a common, clarifying question – so much so that it’s a little ubiquitous and meaningless at times. But stay with me. When you are assigned a project, or are trying to come up with a new product or solution, what’s the first thing you want to do to ensure success? As a storyteller, I know that there’s the story you see (action in the plot) and the story you feel (the emotional character arc). Knowing this, I always work on 2 areas to get alignment about success before jumping into design. And it’s not just so…Read More

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Leading The Way When There Is No Leadership

on January 16, 2023

How not to be Sucked Up by a Leadership Vacuum!

Phew! Take a breath. I just picked a really big topic for what was meant to be a short blog! The Vacuum of Leadership What do you do when you are in a job where there is a vacuum of leadership? When your leaders are so MIA, that people don’t even show up for work and no one notices. When the shop has not been minded for so long that the shelves are empty and even the employees are starving! This is what I’m going to talk about in my first blog after my book writing absence. Take another deep breath. All right let’s get into this. Identify immediately: Is this a transitional change or just how things are done?…Read More

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