Earlier this week I spoke with Pat Farnack, WCBS New York City news radio’s daytime host, about how Eliot Spitzer appears to fit the profile of the lonely leader. Since the interview, several other political leaders around the world have confessed to extramarital sexual encounters including Spitzer’s successor. Listen to this interview to find out what is often the root cause of this behavior and how it affects employee engagement when it comes to leaders. Here is a link to the lonely leader interview.
Category Archives: Media Appearances
Make every employee a part of your team
GUEST: Michael Stallard
TOPIC: What are you doing to make sure your employees are engaged? Michael Stallard joins Jim to talk about how to make our team members feel that they actually have an important stake in the direction of the business.
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Free EBook at Changethis.com
Changethis.com has posted my new downloadable, free EBook entitled The Connection Culture: A New Source of Competitive Advantage. For all of those individuals you know who don’t have time to read Fired Up or Burned Out or who want to investigate further before purchasing a copy, this is a perfect introduction to the ideas of E Pluribus Partners including why we need to create Connection Cultures. Help us spread the word by forwarding a copy to everyone you know who needs to read it.
CausePlanet.org features Fired Up or Burned Out in March
CausePlanet.org selected Fired Up or Burned Out as its featured book summary for March. CausePlanet.org is an organization that provides nonprofit executives and their board members from the business sector a one-stop source for news, articles, and recommended published works. The book summary includes nonprofit applications and interpretations. Nonprofit executives will get fast information about how the book is applicable to the nonprofit world and why they should buy it, as well as an author interview. After readers have screened the summary for its relevance in their respective professional stations, they can click on a link to purchase it.
Family Spirit
GUEST: Michael Stallard
TOPIC: How important is having a family spirit in your business? Michael Stallard talks with Jim Blasingame about how a family spirit culture in your business improves employee engagement and becomes contagious with customers, too.
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Leadership bloggers praise “Fired Up or Burned Out”
Positive buzz by leadership experts about Fired Up or Burned Out has spread on line in recent months. Here are links to what’s being written:
BNet.com
ThreeStarLeadership.com
GenuineCuriosity.com
CEO Learnings
David Zinger
800-CEO-READ
Life Hack
weleadorg-book-review
Weathering the downsizing storm
Downsizing, whether it’s from a business slow down, efficiency improvements or merger, is stressful on employees. Encouraging open conversation and human connection is critical to maintaining employee engagement and organizational health during such periods. Click here to read an article I wrote about it for Customerservicecrossing.com.
Alone No Longer
Four years ago this month, I learned that Katie my wife had advanced ovarian cancer. I set my work aside to focus on helping Katie and our daughters through a difficult season in life. During that period, I spent a lot of time with people. As a result, I learned that I am an “achievaholic” and because of it I had been missing the joy of developing relationships in life beyond my family and close circle of friends. Amazon.com recently published my essay entitled “Alone No Longer” about what I learned during the years Katie battled cancer. For a free download, click here.
Should we separate our personal and work lives?
More people today want to be genuine at work. They feel it is unhealthy to “put on an act” at work in order to fit in and be more promotable. Instead, they want to work at companies that celebrate individuality rather than at companies that force individuals to conform to a corporate stereotype. I once thought that I needed to maintain a certain distance from co-workers in order to be promoted. Experience has taught me otherwise. To read an article on this topic that I wrote for CustomerServiceCrossing.com, click here.