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Curious Leadership: Answers from the Experts

By the Turknett Team Curiosity has always played an important role in leadership and in business. But curiosity is not often talked about, despite being so critical. What is the importance of having curious leadership? Why also would it be so important to have curiosity embedded in the organizational culture? We decided to turn to […]

August 9, 2021 View Article

What I’m Reading: The Business Case for Curiosity

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder & Co-chair, Turknett Leadership Group Harvard Business Review The Business Case for Curiosity. by Francesca Gino September, 2018 Why is Curiosity Important For Leaders? I find it incredibly hard to come up with a succinct answer to that question – I think curiosity is core to being human – but if […]

July 29, 2021 View Article

Tino’s Corner: Childlike Curiosity

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO What do children have more of than adults? It’s curiosity. Brixley, my grandchild, just turned four. Her mom and dad told her they were very sad that she was not staying three. She responded, in all seriousness, with “it’s too late, I am four now”. Brix is a […]

July 21, 2021 View Article

What I’m Reading: Build Your Reputation as a Trustworthy Leader

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder & Co-chair, Turknett Leadership Group Harvard Business Review Build Your Reputation as a Trustworthy Leader. by Ron Carucci June 11, 2021 Over twenty years ago I read a journal article by Linda Trevino and colleagues entitled Moral Person and Moral Leader: How Leaders Develop a Reputation for Ethical Leadership. That article had […]

July 7, 2021 View Article

Tino’s Corner: Rules, Respect, Trust, and Mental Health

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO Naomi Osaka is a 23-year-old tennis star, currently ranked second in the world. She is also the highest paid female athlete, earning over $37 million dollars annually. Playing on clay, as I understand it, is not where she generally excels. Osaka is also a human being and, in […]

June 22, 2021 View Article

Building Trust: 3 Practical Tools for a Newly Promoted Healthcare Leader

By Viktoria Abelson Senior Consultant – Healthcare We talk a lot about building trust in healthcare. Trust is one of, if not the most important characteristic that a provider, physician group, or hospital must embody. Patients must have trust in order to follow medical advice or put themselves in the care of medical providers. Trust […]

June 22, 2021 View Article

The Trust Factor: Tale of Two Managers

By Susan Hitchcock Founder & Host Emerita of Women in Leadership This is a hypothetical tale but with real examples of how trust can be built or torn down. Since trust is gender neutral, Managers 1 & 2 could be male or female. It doesn’t matter. What’s important is this: they both begin their careers […]

June 22, 2021 View Article

Change is a Wild Horse

By Carolyn Mahboubi Life Coach When did the word “change” become a negative thing? George Bernard Shaw famously said, “Those who cannot change their mind, cannot change anything.” Yet, so many of us fight, resist, and are adverse to change in ourselves and others. Helping my clients enrich and improve their personal relationships is front […]

June 8, 2021 View Article

The Case for Simplicity: When Less is More and More is Overrated

By Susan Hitchcock Founder & Host Emerita of Women in Leadership In my younger years, I wouldn’t have been caught dead talking about this topic. But with each passing year (and decade!), I’m turning into a huge fan of the concept of simplicity. (Ok, maybe Martha Stewart suggested it a long time ago, but she […]

June 4, 2021 View Article

Change the People or Change the People

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO Change the people or change the people. That was the theme that I adopted when running the Chicago YMCA. When I accepted the role to lead one of the largest Y’s in the world, at age 39, I was both anxious and desperate to make my mark. My […]

May 21, 2021 View Article