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7 CEO leadership styles and how to discover your own
(This article was originally posted by Francine on Vistage.com) Vistage Chairs John Baines and Francine Lasky spent years honing their leadership styles as Vistage members before becoming executive coaches to help others cultivate their own management approaches. They remind CEOs that styles have to be both authentic to the leader and also useful to the teams they’re leading. “People in organizations deserve clarity, and leadership styles can provide that,” Lasky said. “Try on different styles and find the […]
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Fishfood – Serendipity
FRANCINE’S FISHFOOD – A goldfish’s growth is limited only by their environment, is yours limited by luck? How can you bait serendipity’s hook? What does the first new blue dye in 200 years have to do with how to get LUCKY when asked “So, what do you do?” Also discover my favorite pizza, a new card game & 7 lucky products discovered by accident.
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Fishfood – Self Compassion
FRANCINE’S FISHFOOD – A goldfish’s growth is limited only by their environment. It’s not woo-woo therapy. It is all about realizing that we can only control so much. We do the best we can, with the resources we have.
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Fishfood – Family
FISHFOOD – A goldfish’s growth is limited only by their environment.
With the holidays + COVID, some business leaders are frustrated and feel powerless balancing family and safety at this perilous time. Here are 3 great articles that may help.
Schelpping Tsuris . . . lean into discomfort
My Bubbe Florence often spread Yiddish words in conversation like schmaltz (chicken fat) on toast. The recent protests led me to begin unpacking the word “racism.” Here’s how . . .
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All Women Leaders are Imperfect
I bet you can name 10 movies about damaged, highly successful male leaders: Steve Jobs (Ashton Kutcher), Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg), Ray Kroc (Michael Keaton), etc. How many women do we see on screen as less-than-textbook leaders? Um, ones that win in the end?
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Vistage made my business successful. The four reasons I left anyway.
The life-sized cutout of Mr. Spock in my Star-Trek themed Denver hotel room focused his logical stare at me as I hung up with my brother. He had just given me his blessing to leave the family business I had helped build for the last 25 years and led for the last six.
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