Leadership
Last week I came so close to death
What a day. Thanks to Leadership Atlanta, I find myself striving to experience things that I never would have before. I want need my eyes to continue to be opened wide. And yesterday was the epitome of that. One of my new friends from my Leadership Atlanta class invited me to go on a tour…
Read MoreAdvice for the incoming class of Leadership Atlanta
Yesterday I was an alumni volunteer at the 2014 Leadership Atlanta class orientation at Coca-Cola headquarters. Watching the 80 new class members get their badges for the first time, unsure of where the next ten months would take them, brought me back to my first day of Leadership Atlanta. I’ve shared my Leadership Atlanta experience…
Read MoreThe most overlooked leadership skill #blindpost
HBR has a May article titled, The Most Overlooked Leadership Skill, and I thought that would make a great blindpost. I thought long and hard about this one. It’s hard to find a leadership skill that people overlook. Confidence, competence, the ability to delegate, the ability to get the best of their people…these skills…
Read MoreMy earliest memory of being a leader
It was the second grade. I was the established class clown by then. And I was about to experience my first leadership moment. I was, in fact, the class clown all the way through school, and the thing I always found ironic was that from grade 1 to grade 8, I was constantly in trouble…
Read MoreThe advice I give to anyone that lives in Atlanta to do every year until they retire
Everyone I meet now – that lives in Atlanta – I tell them the same thing: Apply to Leadership Atlanta or Leadership Atlanta’s LEAD program. Do it every year until you retire or get in, whichever comes first. I’m working on a post about just how significantly this program changed my life over the last…
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