How Can Photography Help You as a Leader

How Can Photography Help You as a Leader

Recently addressing a group on leadership, I borrowed from an excellent MIT Sloan offering, and a subsequent innovation@work blog I contributed to along with the faculty.  The blog offers insights between “making” a photograph (no, not a picture), leadership, and what value coaches can potentially bring to their clients…


Chatbots Keeping Leaders Well?

Chatbots Keeping Leaders Well?

“Hey There! So glad you reached out” is the warm and inviting greeting I encountered recently when connecting via my mobile device. My spunky “friend” continues, “Let’s get started, I’m going to tell you a little about how I like to work with humans.” Do you want to work with me?  

A Different Approach

A Different Approach

...For simplicity sake, lets take a typical morning commute.  Drivers are weaving in and out, seeking to gain a car length lead.  Cutting you off, making you spill your latte on your favorite suit, and having the last parking spot taken as you come around the corner. Then there are the “dirty” looks and “creative” hand gestures that are shot directly at you with pinpoint accuracy...

Picture. Photograph. You.

Picture.  Photograph.  You.

...One of the most important differences is the “eye,” the awareness, the presence, the visualization of the possibilities brought by the person behind the camera.  “Picture” you behind that camera but in a different state.  You can now realize the totality of the soon to be captured “picture,” and leverage that awareness to perform at a higher level in order to produce a photograph...