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Fear & Risk: Trust Your Gut About Choosing a College That’s Right For You I’ve enjoyed writing my latest book, “iAware: Becoming Self Aware and College Bound“, in collaboration with two high school students, Lauryn Humprheys and Ali Houmani.  We wrote this book as they were going through the college application and decision process. Read an excerpt from the book below: During the college application process, Lauryn anxiously awaited decisions from the colleges she had applied to. She had thought …

The co-authors of my new book for teens and young adults, “iAware: Becoming Self Aware and College Bound”, asked a few University of Michigan students for advice on preparing for the college application process. Below is an excerpt from the book where a 21 year old senior college student wrote a letter to their 17 year old self with advice for college: Dear Younger Me”: There are four things you need to know. 1. Where you go to college will …

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According to Kim Stricker, “there are over 500 million LinkedIn users, making it one of the mmost essential tools for every CEO and Executive.” At the Leaders Connect Breakfast on March 15th, Kim, who is the Founder and Strategist of Social Motto, gave Leaders Connect members some practical advice about LinkedIn: Create a buyer-centric profile Share and post effective content Engage and build your network Utilize LinkedIn as a prospecting tool Here are some tips for creating a buyer-centric profile: Profile photo – use a current photo; LinkedIn …

Forget Trying to Control People Leaders worry themselves to death over how to get people to do what they want them to do. My book, Conversations with My Old Dog, is a series of poems about the “talks” I used to have with my aging yellow lab Lucy. The poem “Control” includes these lines: We people spend much of our time on the illusion of control– we order our lives and try to order the lives of others. However, we learn–as with …

When an organization is a “learning organization,” it dedicates itself to a continual process of learning new things, learning from mistakes, and learning from objective data. It’s an ongoing process of sharing and learning in which feedback is crucial. It amounts to a continual practice of reading, learning, evaluating and altering what you do according to the feedback you get. Google is a great example of a company that is constantly churning the waters, trying new things, launching new products, …