What I Learned from My Clients Last Week You can limit yourself by thinking too small A good friend is one who encourages you to pursue your dream If you listen to people’s words, they will tell you what is really important to them The fight or flight response often determines how willing we are to engage in conflict Often just “because it’s fun” is as good a reason as any to do what you want to do Being a …
On the morning of January 18th, the Leaders Connect Breakfast members met to honor the great civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The panel was facilitated by Sonya Jacobs, Chief Organizational Officer at the University of Michigan. Click here to watch the discussion. Below is a summary of some key take-aways: Sonya Jacobs shared that although she was born after MLk was assassinated, her father, who had helped organize “the Great Walk” in Detroit, instilled in her a need for …
When I first heard Martin Luther King deliver the “I Have a Dream” speech in 1963, I was on a ladder in Detroit, painting a house and listening on my transistor radio. Later that fall, when I was a senior at Ferndale High School where race riots were breaking out, I remembered the powerful speech. As I felt compelled to take some action, I decided to bring together student leaders from both races to talk to one another about what we could do to relieve the tension and resolve …
For most of my life, I’ve used a simple goal-setting method that I learned from a colleague as a young man. I write my goals on index cards using this format: What? The specific, measurable goals that I want to achieve and the date that I set them. (No vague dreams.) By when? The date for achieving the goals. (Research shows that 90-day goals can be most effective. Longer-term ones tend to get lost; shorter-term ones come to resemble to-do lists.) Why? The …
Doug Schneider, a good friend of mine, recently sent this LinkedIn post to me. Doug Is a very wise man, whom I have seen, over the past 20 years, rise from the ranks to become a successful CEO of a software company which he took public in 2013. I got to know him when he was an executive in charge of innovation at Thomson Reuters in Ann Arbor. His advice in this piece is spot on. I hope it encourages …