Heart Leadership In Practice Articles

What My Near-Death Experience Taught Me About Life And Leadership

Early one morning just a few weeks ago, I woke up with the intention of starting my day at the gym.  But before I ever made it out of the house, I completely blacked out, fell on a cold travertine floor and broke my ribs. The pain from that fall was excruciating; and...

Gallup’s Profound Discovery: Engagement Is Driven By Good Managers With Rare Talents

“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see.”  – Schopenhauer It’s been nearly three years since Gallup announced its stunning finding that engagement in the American workplace had fallen to crisis levels. In what became the...

These 5 Books Predict The Future Of Workplace Leadership

"The future is already here, it's just not evenly distributed."  – William Gibson A close friend and former colleague of mine recently advised me to “go easy” on my use of the expression “lead from the heart.”  Fully aware that I’d written a book with that title, he...

Why Your Personal Influence Is Far Greater Than You Ever Knew

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means.“ ~ Albert Schweitzer Introduction: Through a series of fascinating studies, Harvard-trained social scientists, Nicholas Christakis and James Fowler, have shown that human beings...