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 Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? | Part 4: What If Our Culture Could Change?

This is part of an ongoing series of blogs based on the latest Level Five Associates book, The Power of Being All In. What Will Effective Leadership Look Like in the Future? Part 4 — What If Our Culture Could Change? “If we are to preserve (our) culture, we must continue to create it.” — Johan … 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

Mosaic Team, Part 3: Making ‘Modeling Curiosity’ The Norm

This is part of our series of blogs on the “Mosaic Team” concept. “Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever.” – Gandhi Carol Dweck, a professor at Stanford University, is widely recognized as the developer of the “growth mindset” based upon the belief that people can … Read more

The Future of Leadership, Part 2: Leadership Mindsets

 “The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.” – John C. Maxwell A well-known author and speaker, Jacob Morgan, has been studying the future of leadership, and he provides us with some thoughtful insights as he describes the four “mindsets” of the successful future leader: Global … Read more