Peggy Grall - The Change Coach
Some interesting ideas about Crisis leadership have come from researchers at the US Army Research Institute who spent ten months observing the Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland, a world-renowned urban facility that treats more than 7,000 patients each year with severe, often life-threatening injuries. They wanted to find out which leadership strategies fared best for teams working in “highly dynamic and stressful situations”. The Shock Trauma Center was the perfect petri dish.
When Seal and Heidi Klum called it quits earlier this year, they reported having “grown apart’, a common theme among Hollywood power couples; they come together in a storm of romance, and beat a hasty retreat at the first sign of trouble. They gu…
more...The great industrialist Henry Kaiser once said, “If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.” He would know. From building giant warships during World War II to helping found one of the largest, most efficient healthcare providers in the wo…
more...New ideas, new ways of doing things, new products, every day brings with it the chance for dynamic change. Staying ahead of that change requires hard work, intuition, a bit of luck, and most of all creativity. But, how can you be creative? Is there a…
more...With a view towards providing increasing value to my loyal readers, I’m excited to announce some changes that you’ll soon see happening with this blog space. Starting today, this blog will become a landing place for ideas, inspiration, and ad…
more...Change initiatives bring out the best – and worst – in all of us. From senior leaders to front line staff. What others need from us to make their transition successful is often very different from what we would naturally do ourselves.We see t…
more...Good to GreatJim Collins (Good to Great, Great by Choice) was a keynote presenter at the Women President’s Organization annual conference in Atlanta this past month. Mr. Collin’s books are always a good read, and he was in rare form presenting in …
more...I boarded Direct Air flight #5915 on March 5th for a flight to the sunny south, fully expecting that the airline would fly me safely home again 10 days later. Ah – no! Six days after my departure, the airline went bankrupt and I was left to fend for my…
more...Time is interesting; we watch it, occasionally we waste it, grab it while it flies past us, and sometimes we even kill it.The ancient Greeks had two words for time. The first, chronos, refers to chronological or sequential time. It’s the…
more...I love sixty’s music! Yup, turn up the Rock & roll for me! I was listening to Classic Rock on TV today and heard Simon and Garfunkel singing, ‘I am a rock, I am an island’ That song takes me back to darker times in my youth, when I’d been hurt by s…
more...I’m sitting on the porch of my mother’s home in Folsom California as I write this. My mother was eighty-six on her last birthday, and is slowly being swept into the sometimes present, sometimes gone experience that is dementia. For the past couple of y…
more...What will matter?By Michael JosephsonReady of not, some day it will all come to an end.There will be no more sunrises, no days, no hours or minutes.All the things you collected, whether treasured or forgotten, will pass to someone elseYour wealth, fame…
more...I’m the lucky Grandmother of three delightful granddaughters. Yeah…I started young, and it’s paying off now!Not being the traditional Grandmother of yester-year, who rocked on the porch with hoards of grandchildren at her feet, I only occasionally ge…
more...I’ve just been perusing the papers, and the economic news is dismal – heck, most of the news is down right depressing right now. So, I’m going to tell you a story on this bright and breezy summer day, in case you need a smile.Picture Charlie Brown, the…
more...This weather we’re having is crazy, isn’t it? It seems like the whole world is being caught in tornados, hurricanes and floods of Biblical proportion. Here in Ontario, we’ve gone from freezing our petudies to flipping burgers on the Bar-B-Q overnight. …
more...On March 11th an earthquake of 7.2 magnitude rocked the Tokyo area, followed by a tsunami of Biblical proportions, and just this past week ‘super tornados’ (966 in the Month of April to be exact) rained down destruction on southern …
more...Charismatic leaders operate in a state of continuous evolution and change. New roles, new positions, new corporations: change can take many forms. These leaders are men and women with executive presence — and they really get around. By definition, ch…
more...Canadians will head to the polls, in a few weeks, to elect a new leader, or reaffirm the one we have, and south of the border CNN is already scampering after any whiff of 2012 election gossip. Both countries seem to be laboring under the same misconcep…
more...In the past few weeks, unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve been witness to the single largest turnover of power the modern world has ever seen. Not since the defeat of Hitler have we witnessed dictators humbled in such dramatic ways. Just ask Z…
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