All Entries Tagged With: "How To Be A Positively Powerful Person"
Open source for the mind on Culture & Tribes.
Why should culture be important to you? Because it’s the invisible glue that holds a group of people together – a business, an organization, any group, your family, your online community, etc. Culture is the system of agreements, the experiences, the beliefs, values, attitudes, that are subscribed to, that are bought into. A group so aligned is a “tribe” (aka community). Here’s open source knowledge for the mind – a free audio book on “Tribal Leadership” about organizational culture.
How to land on your feet when your company downsizes and you’re forced to exit.
“Layoffs attributed to business demand factors (especially slack work or insufficient demand) accounted for more than 500,000 worker separations, the highest annual level on record.” Those are the statistics and stats aren’t people. The numbers don’t communicate how people feel and what they do to handle this “separation”. How do people rebound from being fired [...]
Wise Words for Wannapreneurs
Wannapreneur: A person who talks about organizing and managing enterprises, esp. businesses, usually with considerable initiative and risk, but never actually does. If you’ve decided the answer to your economic situation is to move from government or corporate work to become an entrepreneur but haven’t taken the plunge, you may be a wannapreneur. Here’s a [...]
Lorena Valencia 2010 Positively Powerful Woman Entrepreneur
Lorena Valencia, President/CEO, Reliance Wire & Cable is selected as this year’s Positively Powerful Woman Entrepreneur Award Recipient for her business success and leadership of nonprofit organizations especially The Grand Canyon Minority Supplier Development Council. She is the GCMSDC Council MBEIC Chair and national MBE co-chair of the upcoming National MSDC Convention. Lorena’s motto is [...]
Debbie Paine, First Positively Powerful Woman Nonprofit Executive Winner
Debbie Paine, Executive Director, Arts & Business Council of Greater Phoenix is the first Positively Powerful Nonprofit Executive Award Recipient for her vision and programs that bring together art, artists, and businesses as well as her organization’s “Business On Board” program that prepares diverse executives to serve and lead boards of directors. Debbie, mother of Brian, [...]
The Winner’s Summit: All that and more.
Enthusiasm. Passion. Engaged. Informative. Caring. Business-like. Connecting the dots. Collaborative. Customer service. Use of social media. These and many more accolades go to the event producers and planners who get it right. As a speaker, I experienced this most recently at The Winner’s Summit produced by Deborah Hardnett. The audience was prep’d and ready for my message “Transformation’s In The [...]
Mellody Hobson: Financial Genius, Heart & Smarts
Dr. Kay Lovelace Taylor Phoenix Chapter President of the Links and John McAuliffe Executive Director Business Development Officer Western Division of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney linked up to bring Mellody Hobson to the podium and it was a great event. Mellody is the financial phenom. She’s President of Ariel Capital Management, LLC, the only (and first) African American-owned money management and mutual fund company [...]
What does Diversity look like today?
This is a pause for the cause – a different way of viewing the dimensions of diversity. Diversity, it has often been said, goes beyond race and gender. It includes generations, race, gender, organizational diversity, nationality, culture, recreational habits, personality and more. At the heart of it, regardless of their dimensions, is a human being [...]
Trapped by History-Think Positively About the Future
Once Transformation occurs what proceeded it loses its significance and it becomes History. Instead of participating in the transformation, or change, many of us focus on the history leading up to the actual event, mesmerized by the telling of the story. We are not suggesting attention not be paid to history but rather we recognize [...]
Promises are tools that build dreams.
You’ve got a dream, a vision, a goal and you make a promise that by such and such a date you’ll do this or that action to make it happen. You either do it or you don’t. If you don’t for what ever reason, procrastination, fear, etc. you now have either your reasons, stories, rationalizations, [...]
