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Designing Courageous Leadership
Designing Courage There is a direct correlation between your success quotient and your courage quotient. Sony Corporation believes customers want choices, so they design many options. Other organizations such as 3M and Disney instill daily “gray shade attributes” to seek and stimulate creative design. Creative people such as artists understand this abyss. They know inspiration hides in the paradox that
Leadership in Reactive Times
It’s better to be a crystal to shine for a moment and risk getting shattered to bits than live a hundred years as a tile on a roof. — Chinese saying DURING PROACTIVE TIMES, leaders generally become advocates of the causes they deem critical and then design the objectives to achieve those goals, such as implementing knowledge transfer programs, pushing innovation and
Courage to Confess
If you have been reading my courage blogs I have featured a variety of topics, such as “Times of Indecision,” “Permission to be BIG,” “Who Controls Your Life?” and “Awakening Your Voice to Courage.” In this courage blog I ask you, “Do you willingly confess your shortcomings, mishaps or missteps?” By confessing, I don’t mean your “sins.” For example, how
Times of Indecision
Most people, particularly women, seem so surprised when I share that only 11% of women perceived themselves as courageous out of over 750 survey forms distributed nationally. Why? Women are more inclined to see it in other women than have the capability of defining it, much less claiming courage in ourselves. One woman said, “I don’t feel my parents, much
Courage to be BIG!
Maybe it’s time to be the real you. No one ever went to their grave joyfully embracing all their accumulative regrets! Be courageous! Give yourself permission to be BIG. Why is it so hard to be all that we can be? We rarely seem to remember those moments when we were “BIG”—not arrogant, but full of “true self”—when inner purpose
Who Controls Your Life?
What consumes your time? In an O, Magazine issue, Oprah wrote: “How you spend your time defines who you are. I try not to waste time—because I don’t want to waste myself.” Does it seem that everyone but you runs your life? A coaching client shared that she feels her life seems to belong to someone else. She said, “Many
Sandra Walston Advises Women to Own Courage!
By Jill H. Lawrence Courage coach, Sandra Ford Walston, totally understands why the Cowardly Lion in the 1939 classic film, “The Wizard of Oz,” was so desperately searching for courage. “We all dream of Oz. Courage is a valuable commodity,” Walston points out. “Those who own courage and recognize it in themselves operate at the next level. This makes life
The Queen of Courage Coaches Women to Reign Over Their Lives
By Jill H. Lawrence Sandra Ford Walston is the personification of courage. You can hear courage in the fervor of her voice, you can see the courageous determination in her eyes, and most of all, you can feel the courage of her heart. She’s the real deal. Does this mean that she’s some kind of mythic heroine who has slain
Changing the Face of Courage: Author Wants Women to See Their Strengths
By Cate Terwillinger, The Denver Post, May 14, 2000 Count Sandra Ford Walston out when it comes to joining the fan legions of “Xena:Warrior Princess.” It’s not that Walston doesn’t appreciate the kick-butt-and-takenames-later approach of television’s most visible warrior woman. It’s more that she views Xena as an essentially male notion of female courage in drag—of the bustier and buskin
Enterprise Author Preaches the Value of Courage
Denver Business Journal, April 21, 2000 edition, “Small Business Insights” by: Lyn Berry A local entrepreneur who has steered herself successfully through multiple and varied careers is opening a new chapter in her life to explore the publishing business. Sandra Ford Walston, a nationally known speaker, trainer and executive coach, has written and published a book that explores the characteristic