by Leap Leadership | Oct 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Lily Kelly-Radford It’s only October, but 2021 can’t come soon enough. Yet even in this most unkind time–toxic politics, social injustice, an insidious pandemic—we can learn much about becoming more kindly leaders. As the world started hunkering at home last...
by Lily Kelly-Radford | Sep 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Lily Kelly-Radford Sometimes it seems we’re stuck in the 19th century with its Great Man Theory of leadership. When you’re sitting through a presentation about leadership and the PowerPoint slides display quotes and case studies of white American men, exclusively,...
by Leap Leadership | Sep 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Lily Kelly-Radford Leaders have to go where no one has gone before. That’s what Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute president Shirley Ann Jackson did when she enrolled at MIT. Dr. Jackson told MIT’s Technology Review that she stayed on after earning her...
by Leap Leadership | Aug 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Lily Kelly-Radford The remote workplace – at first, we had to do it. Entire staffs went home and set up shop on their kitchen tables or in spare bedroom offices. We improvised quickly. Now we know remote work is going to continue. Even as the pandemic resolves, we...
by Leap Leadership | Aug 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
By Lily Kelly-Radford Work has never been more “self-serve” than it has since the pandemic lockdowns started in March. It’s an entirely new environment for most people. This calls on workers to demonstrate responsibility in fulfilling their duties remotely, which...
by Leap Leadership | Aug 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
It took a funeral to be reminded that humility is a cornerstone of effective leadership. At the service for Congressman John Lewis from the historic pulpit of Ebenezer Baptist Church we heard three distinctly different leaders empathize with a divided nation, weary...
Kindness endures as a strength in our culture
Straight Talk: Replacing cringe with graceHave social media and popular culture made us so cynical that we enjoy the “cringe” and the judgment when people fall on their face in the workplace? […]
Straight Talk: The Capacity PersonThink of being a capacity person like a “superpower for good” and assess every context for how much is needed so it’s never for “not-so-good.” […]
“Persevere” – Celebrating the first African American woman on the Supreme Court
Right To Disconnect? Should US companies adopt the European trend?The idea is the head off burnout and simply reduce over-work.Probably a wise move, when retaining talent is getting harder. Not to mention being at a time when so many are working from home, blurring the boundaries of work and life. […]