The Power of the Written Note
You've heard it your whole life, and your mother probably taught you too.  Handwritten notes are important and say something about who you are and your sincerity in regards to the message in the note.You heard it again with thank you notes after interviewing for jobs.  You've heard it as a key "strategy" in networking and building relationships.All of it is true, and yet, I observe fewer and fewer people doing it.

The Cost of Distrust
I'm working on training materials for a Client - materials that I will deliver next week.  As I prepared some notes on trust - a topic I have facilitated learning on many times - I was thinking about the opposite of trust (distrust) and was reminded of this quotation from Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Our distrust is very expensive."Knowing that part of what I am going to teach is that trust is, in part, a verb (something that we do), it made me want to personalize Ralph's thought."My distrust is very expensive."Thinking about distrust as a verb and in the first person puts the responsibility where i

Five Approaches to Being More Proactive
At a 10-year class reunion, four friends gathered to visit. Tina and George reflected on the differences in Steve and Angela after they walked away."They were both so smart and outgoing when we were in high school," George said. "Yeah, they were both voted Most Likely to Succeed, remember?" Tina added."Then why have their lives gone so differently in the last ten years?" George mused. After a conversation and discussing several factors, Tina and George determined the biggest difference.Tina seemed to summarize the conversation: "

#LEADERSHIPtweet by Kevin Eikenberry
The title hopefully gives you a tip as to the construction of this book. It's about leadership (which you might expect), and it's somehow related to Twitter - the blazing-hot social media tool.In short, my newest book is a collection of 140 thoughts about leadership, each 140 characters or less.I shared each of the nuggets (or tweets) on Twitter as I wrote the book. And then, I organized them into four sections:Leaders as Le

A Leadership Litany - Reasons for Leaders to be Thankful
As leaders, we have many reasons to be grateful and to give thanks.  I've written alot about gratitude and giving thanks over the years, but on this Thanksgiving morning, I am thinking specifically about my role as a leader and all I have to be thankful for. It is written in first person on purpose.  Please read it as if you wrote it, rather than casually observing