Tag Archives: Leadership
Blytheco’s Starting 2012 with a Bang!
Here at Blytheco, we don’t ease into a New Year in our pajamas and slippers. We gulp some caffeine, get all spiffy, and hit the ground running, ready to stir stuff up for yet another 365 days. So if you’re
Thanksgiving: A Diary of Cooking and Team-Building Success
Earlier this week I wrote about the importance of team-building activities and about an event that we had in Orange County. Other members of the Blytheco marketing team decided to share their perspectives about their experiences below. I think we
A Chopped Cook-Off: Improving Team Relationships at Work
Who said that team-building exercises were lame and only for those lacking appropriate social skills? Well…actually, I did. In fact, it was something I always thought, and I’ve always considered myself quite the social butterfly. After last week, I can
What is the Sage Leadership Academy Alumni Association?
What is it? Why are we in it? An announcement will go out this week that Blytheco will be participating in Sage Leadership Academy Alumni Association (SLAAA). You may ask, what is this organization and why would we chose to
Managing Risk: The Country Doctor vs. the Specialist
We all remember Dr. Marcus Welby – the ultimate ‘Country Doctor’ (Maybe not and I am just dating myself). He knew all his patients, delivered most of them himself and had the ability to cure someone at the brink of
Do Pilots Make Better CEOs?
For full disclosure, I have been a pilot for 14 years and a CEO for 31 years. So, the answer is clearly YES, from my point of view. Before earning my pilots license, I was very passionate about skydiving and
Positive Transformation, or the Evolution of the Modern Businessman
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein While perusing through more Harvard Business Review (HBR) articles online, I found a 2009 article on Personal Reinvention: Innovation Inventory #10 by Scott Anthony. I
Stimulating Creativity Among Employees: Mission and Vision Statements
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulated progress, giving birth to evolution.” Albert Einstein in “What Life Means to Einstein,” Saturday Evening Post, October 26, 1929, reprinted in “ON Science.”
The You Experiment: Taking Risks on What Others Don’t See
“Creativity is seeing what others see and thinking what no one has ever thought” – Albert Einstein If we think of leadership as a science, we can begin to think of ourselves as creative experimenters who are eager to try
