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Yesterday, I was honored to present to a group of 18 Detroit police officers who are participating in the Detroit Police Department Leadership Academy at Wayne State University, Mike Ilitch School of Business. One of the faculty, Sherilynn Perelli, asked me to speak on self-awareness and emotional intelligence. She felt these were crucial competencies for the officers to develop in order to become successful leaders in the police department. In learning about the program, which welcomed its first set of participants …

After three years of presenting 30+ Leaders Connect events on Zoom, I am very pleased to announce that we are returning to live events at Zingerman’s Roadhouse. Due to the continued threat of Covid (for example, my mother-in-law is going home today after spending three days in the hospital with Covid), I will be making some important changes: The starting time will be 8 AM rather than 7 AM (due to the fact that people have gotten used to sleeping in) To be …

Kim Stricker, Founder of Social Motto Even though I’m well past college, September has always been the time for learning.   I’ve always enjoyed the start of school, and even though I’m not teaching this semester, I am learning about myself, the world, science, and art.   Here are a few of the key learnings from September:   – I have learned from Kim Stricker founder of Social Motto that it is possible to make very good short videos by using a video …

Last week I had the opportunity to lead an exciting workshop as part of Leaders Connect. It focused on Developing a Personal Leadership Plan, the video can be found here. We focused on Identifying Your Blind Spots. One of the participants, Larry, described his challenge of being flooded by many thoughts when trying to do his writing. I described a process, which I invented a few years ago. I call it IAN, which stands for I AM NOW (fill in the blank). I am also one of …

Much unhappiness in life derives from overreacting to small slights and inconveniences. When you are distressed by something, and you cannot determine whether it’s a big deal or not, ask yourself this question: Does This Really Matter? Very often you’ll find yourself determining that it’s a small thing and it really doesn’t matter that much to you at all. If so, let it go and spare yourself from getting upset over small shit. What methods do you use to not …

The Leaders Connect community will be gathering tomorrow for the first time since 2020. We have been operating on a twice-a-month basis via zoom, but now it is time to go live. For the past 30 years, Leaders Connect has brought together leaders from various communities: the business sector, nonprofits, universities, government, and young emerging leaders and students.  What do we do?   First, we network.    People move around the room to discuss what they have been doing in …