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Our unbound congratulations to Lisa Orrell. Her book, “Millennials Incorporated“, has been chosen as a finalist inForeward Magazine’s “Book of the Year” competition, out of 1400 entries. The winners will be announced in May at BookExpo America in New York. To watch Lisa, you can catch her recent appearance on ABC’s “The View From [...]
The topic of this webinar was leadership, and Jim spoke from his 25 years of research and experience in the field. But first he started with a motto from Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a leader who knew some tough times: “Let unconquerable gladness dwell.” Jim then discussed the importance of leadership in difficult times. Indeed, in a quick scan of historical crises and the leaders who emerged from those periods, the point was made that great challenges provide the opportunity for great leadership. What’s more, by overcoming difficulties we emerge stronger and better than before. Thus, we should be optimistic about the economic crisis we are in now. Leaders arise in times of adversity, challenge, change and difficulty. From there, Jim went on to build our ideas about what constitutes leadership and where we can find it. The surveys he and colleague Barry Posner have conducted in their research closely tracked with the spot polls Jim did throughout the webinar. Continue reading » » The declining economy has brought another unwelcome trend across the U.S.: middle-age baby boomers moving back with their parents. I was recently on ABC’s Bay Area talk show, “The View from the Bay”, discussing it. You can visit my website to view the segment: TheOrrellGroup.com. MORE THAN one-third of retirees have had to help their adult children pay bills this past year. And, the number of multigenerational households has increased from 5 million in 2000 to 6.2 million in 2008. Here’s a basic overview of this growing middle-aged boomeranger dynamic: Continue reading » » Jay Light, the dean of Harvard Business School, is calling for business school education to swing back toward the center: “We lived through an enormous extended period of financial good times, and people became less focused on risks and risk management and more focused on making money.” Christoph Bangert for The New York Times We needed better risk [...] In every life we have some trouble There is plenty of doom and gloom surrounding rising unemployment, free-falling equity values, locked-in credit markets and a housing situation that, well, you know. It wouldn’t be hard to imagine panic, dread and misery being a frequent co-pilot among the millions of mass-transiting, ride-share laneing commuters across the world. But beyond the anxiety over our economic security, are we generally more unhappy now? |
  
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On March 16, Jim Kouzes held a webinar entitled 
