by Patti Blackstaffe | Apr 28, 2010 | Business, Leadership
There are many extraordinary people we witness doing extraordinary things. Take Roz Savage for example, her opening line in her TED talk this April is “Hi, I’m Roz Savage and I row across oceans.” In listening to her talk about choosing...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Mar 23, 2010 | Business, Leadership, Management
Leadership… We hear this word widely used in so many ways the whole concept of leadership has become vague due to the broad and vast understanding of what leadership really means to people and organizations. We are given ‘characteristics’ to emulate, we are...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Mar 4, 2010 | Business, Leadership
Two people I know in the recreation industry were chatting this week and I learned something that gave me a smile regarding the difference in leadership there and in some large corporate settings. Recreation is a different kind of business, it is weather dependant and...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Mar 1, 2010 | Business, Leadership, Training
Occasional complainers are folks who are unhappy about a particular situation and need to share with others how miserable they are. I will stress that everyone goes through a period of their lives where they feel like their power for change has been taken away and...
by Patti Blackstaffe | Feb 12, 2010 | Business, Leadership, Management
Welcome to Erin Schreyer as our guest writer of today’s post. February is Community month at Strategic Sense and last post described an example of a CEO who builds community through his kind actions, this post has a few examples of how community can begin with...