How Vistage Got Started and the Concept of the Peer Group
Here are the different kinds of Vistage groups and the differences and the benefits between them.
Read MoreDoes a Vistage peer group make sense for you?
What’s Vistage? It all starts with a group. Put 12-14 high performing business executives in a room and the potential is enormous. A Chair ensures that every bit of that wisdom and experience is a applied in the meeting. An expert guides the meetings. I’m a facilitator, guide and coach. I help stimulate thinking, frame issues,…
Read MoreBeing an Executive or an Entrepreneur Can Be Isolating
When you’re a key executive, chief executive or entrepreneur with complex roles, it can be lonely and isolating. Here’s my perspective on having important conversations with those in your circle as you go through the leadership development process.
Read MoreSeason’s Greetings
Wishing you a wonderful holiday season and a very happy New Year!
Read MoreQuarantine sucks! Time for a laugh…
Watch Viggo’s heartfelt one-minute dog rant on the virus, maintaining social distance and missing his Seattle Vistage peers. I do miss you,Kevin
Read MorePerspective is Key During these Surreal Times
“For a small amount of perspective at this moment, imagine you were born in 1900, to parents or grandparents who fought in the civil war. On your 14th birthday, World War I starts, and ends on your 18th birthday. 22 million people perish in that war. Later in the year, a Spanish Flu epidemic hits…
Read MoreHow to help Seattle hospitals
Calling on all Vistage members (and non-members) – Seattle hospitals need: In order of priority: Surgical and N95 or comparable masks Face shields Plastic gowns Of equal priority: Ventilators Questions – who has the: Manufacturing expertise and capacity? Insight into the supply-chain? Ability to follow-through? My contacts – I know Vistage members: With manufacturing “design and…
Read MoreWe Got This!
My Seattle Vistage leaders (peer group members): culture isn’t a place. Culture resides in the heart. You are doing an amazing job leading into the new normal caused by COVID-19. Keep connecting. Promote action.We have each other’s back.
Read MoreA 2020 Wish for My Tribe
What if the present moment is the only guarantee? “Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry — all forms of fear — are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of non-forgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”— Eckhart Tolle What if…
Read MoreDo You Play on Drama Triangle: Victim? Hero? Villain? How to Get Off…
Are you in Karpman Drama Triangle? Read this short Wikipedia article to find out. “…[D]rama-based leaders can instill an organizational culture of drama. Persecutors are more likely to be in leadership positions and a persecutor culture goes hand in hand with cutthroat competition, fear, blaming, manipulation, high turnover and an increased risk of lawsuits. There are also victim…
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