In this post, our questions from WID Leadership Summit participants are all about minding the gap. Here’s the questions … How do I move from glorified secretary/assistant role into a leadership role? How do I get promoted as a non-engineer in an engineering command? How do I effectively lead a diverse group of men and [...]
News media, particularly over the past decade, tends to suggest leadership failure as the norm. Reporting blunders, from foolish faux pas to serious ethical breaches, invites us to believe that great leadership is so rare as to be hardly attainable. When things go wrong, we see the painful outcomes in print, broadcast on television, and [...]
A whopping 87% of Amazon reviewers give authors Ken Jennings and John Stahl-Wert five stars for The Serving Leader: Five Powerful Actions to Transform Your Team, Business, and Community. Numerous CEOs have embraced the insights, embarked on transforming their leadership teams, and shared the book throughout their organizations. The book has been so successful over [...]
On October 5th, 2014, I attended my very first live professional football game, between San Diego’s Chargers and the New York Jets. At the time, I had pink extensions in my hair—a gift from an exceptional service provider. Earlier this month, I chose to “go pink” again, sparking a recent conversation on the ways we [...]
In his recent LinkedIn post, Ryan Holmes, CEO of Hootsuite writes about optimal team sizes. The number to manage scaled growth successfully at Hootsuite is 10. But not just any ten. Holmes advocates for investing the vetting time to identify the right team members. In a prior organization, our leadership team came together to honestly assess [...]
(c) 2014 Kathryn Bingham All Rights Reserved Part 1 of Just WHO are YOU in the Midst of Now introduced the concept of knowing your purpose. A core purpose or mission offers a filter for deciding life and work priorities. In today’s post, we’ll begin analyzing the data you collected data on [...]
(c) 2014 Kathryn Bingham, Montreal photo with Sketchguru filter Mission and Purpose Recently, I’ve been pondering the synchronicity of a set of questions related to “purpose.” First, while planning my dissertation proposal, my committee chair and I discussed, the “what do I want to do with this” that helps shape my study. [...]
Life isn’t—and perhaps shouldn’t be—about absolute perfection. Setting and striving for ambitious goals offers a certain joy in the journey and anticipated achievement. And yet, sometimes, we face roadblocks, interference and struggle. We’re not operating in “flow.” Our plans go awry. “The best laid plans of mice and men” should read, “the best laid plans [...]
The meaning we assign to words reflects myriad images and snippets of information we associate from prior exposure and reading. Our assigned meaning influences our choice of words when we set about to communicate. The question then arises, what underlies my selection of “destiny” to include in various elements of the blog and website? In some stories, we might [...]
