What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? Part 6: We’re Back. Now What?

“Situational Awareness is the understanding of an environment, its elements, and how it changes with respect to time or other factors” (per Wikipedia). Now that COVID has ebbed, many leaders have been trying to return to the life they once knew. It’s a natural tendency to seek comfort by restoring old habits.  Seems like everyone … Read more

What are the Impacts? | Part 2: The Dangers of Thinking Information Equals Communication

This is the latest entry in a series of blogs based on the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. All too often, we mistakenly believe that sharing information alone is communicating. (We discussed this in a recent blog post: The Communication Desert.) Technology is feeding self-deception. Our warp-speed technology growth … Read more

What are the Impacts? | Part 1: Invest or Else

This is the latest entry in a series of blogs based on the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. One of the executives I interviewed in The Power of Being All In, Andrew Sewnauth, President and CEO of CDS Life Transitions, had this to say: “I think talent management lies … Read more

What’s Happening to Us? | Part 6: The Communication Desert

This is the latest entry in a series of blogs based off the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. Research has shown that body language and tone can account for up to 93% of communication, leaving only 7% for words.  If that is the case, then most electronic forms of … Read more

What’s Happening to Us? | Part 5: The Outliers

This is the latest entry in a series of blogs based off the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. Webster defines an outlier as “someone who stands apart from others in his or her group.”  In many ways, we are all outliers now. The turmoil of the last few years … Read more

What’s Happening to Us? | Part 4: Can We Hear Each Other?

This is the latest entry in a series of blogs based off the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. Can We Hear Each Other? One of the most transformative elements of our lives now that the world has changed is what our workplace looks like.  For many of us, the … Read more