A thought leader is a trusted resource; and in an information economy, a trusted resource is extremely valuable. A thought leader can be an individual or company with a mastery of its business, customers and the dynamics of the field. A thought leader has a big competitive edge.
I invite you to see, experience, develop and design your dream, vision, purpose and mission. If you don’t, you tend to get caught up in your personal successes and woes —trying to find more time, trying to deal with the exigencies of life, trying to survive.
Society tends to treat essentially feminine qualities like emotional, sensual, and intuitive as liabilities—traits that should be suppressed and discouraged because they make us appear weak.
As I walked into my boss’s office, my heart was racing with a mixture of excitement and fear. I had worked long and hard for this moment, and now I was about to become the first African American woman to be named an officer of Avon Products.
The pharmaceutical industry is a small world. During my career, I’ve worked with some of the best in the business—people responsible for developing life-enhancing and often life-extending drugs; people I’m proud to call friends.
The most important choice of your life is to choose to be—and then become—the best version of yourself: daring to dream about the best version of yourself and then making that dream come true.
Today I have just three things to say to you – words of advice.
Maybe none of us is a good a listener as we would like to believe we are, but some people truly deserve the title of lousy listener. If you have to interact with such a person regularly, you need to have a few tactics for getting through to them.
Leadership is far less about what you are doing, than about who you are being. If you think about the people who have influenced you most over your career and life, it’s likely that what impacted you most was not what they did, but about who they were being while doing it: genuine, honest, courageous, resilient, real.
When we partnered with the Human Capital Institute (HCI) to study the three sources of employee engagement—employees, managers, and senior leaders—we discovered that independent of one another, none of these groups can sustain employee engagement: all three groups must work together.