Category Archives: Leadership

Debunking Myths That Stall Women’s Careers

Posted on March 12, 2015 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Shellie Karabell, leadership writer for Forbes, helped debunk some myths about female leadership this week in her blog about female killer whales.  Apparently if the male killer whales fretted as much as male and female humans about whether females should … Continue reading →

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Would You Like To Be More Persuasive?

Posted on September 5, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

I’ve started my persuasion and negotiation classes with some important key points about both.  Among these is the one discussed at Big Think.  When we prepare to persuade, we often consider what we want to achieve and then decide the … Continue reading →

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Learning Leadership from Warren Bennis

Posted on August 2, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

This past week my colleague Warren Bennis passed.  He was an exceptional scholar, a generous mentor, an excellent teacher and speaker, who taught by example and scholarship what it means to be a true leader.  Two paragraphs from the University … Continue reading →

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Are Real Leaders All That Tough?

Posted on June 27, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Common wisdom is that they’re tough when they need to be.  “Don’t let this sweet face fool you,” was one of my favorite, slightly humorous warnings now and then throughout my career.  But there’s a difference between being tough and … Continue reading →

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Maya Angelou on Courage

Posted on May 29, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

In a blog on Big Think today, I looked at the challenge Maya Angelou took up herself and passed on us.  According to Angelou, “Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any … Continue reading →

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Persuasion Shortcut Using The ACE Method

Posted on May 1, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Today’s blog on Big Think, is “A Shortcut to Successful Influence” using the ACE Method, which I originally described in my first book, Persuasion in Practice.  There are a host of skills required to be an effective persuader.  Sometimes we … Continue reading →

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Persuasion Often Relies on Habits of the Mind

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

That’s what my blog on Huffpo today is really about — habits of mind that we neglect to question.  We devote an insufficient amount of time educating ourselves and our children to recognize when we and they are being handed … Continue reading →

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At the Intersection of Leadership and Politics

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

I posted this comment in response to a post by Jon Currie on the new Linkedin group Wholehearted Leadership.  Thought I’d share it.  The post was: We need more common sense and less rule structure to truly be leaders. Boundaries, … Continue reading →

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Leadership Tutorial II (for women): To Be Nice or Not To Be

Posted on March 21, 2013 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

Last night I was reading chapter 3 of Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg.  Like prior chapters, there’s good information within it.  Much of it has been known for some time, but Sandberg has a way of communicating her ideas conversationally. … Continue reading →

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Are The Red Sox Suffering from Political Pathology?

Posted on October 1, 2011 by Kathleen Kelley Reardon

You’ll rarely find me writing about baseball, though I love the game.  But here it goes.  I would be truly surprised if the Red Sox aren’t suffering from an increasing case of pathological politics.  If you’ve read Comebacks at Work … Continue reading →

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