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Is the Word “Resilient” an Oxymoron for a 33-Year-Old Company?

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO The answer is no, and I am going to prove it. Well, at least I will tell the TLG story. Before I begin, I want to point out that I fully understand that pretty much every company has had to do things differently in 2020. Some did it […]

December 17, 2020 View Article

Another Perspective: Resilience

By Bill Dickinson Socrates, the classical Greek philosopher once wrote: The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. For many of us, and in a multitude of businesses, change is a constant. And whether a business is pivoting for relevance, roles are expanding […]

December 17, 2020 View Article

Stoics & Resilience

Stoics From https://www.bakadesuyo.com/2020/04/pandemic-ritual/ By Lyn Turknett TLG Co-founder & Co-chair Expect everyone to be difficult and disagreeable, and you will be pleasantly surprised by flashes of kindness! As the great Stoic Epictetus said: “The true man is revealed in difficult times. So, when trouble comes, think of yourself as a wrestler whom God, like a […]

December 17, 2020 View Article

Quick Thoughts on Healthy Resilience

By Robert (Bob) Turknett TLG Co-founder & Co-chair Want to become more resilient during these unprecedented times? Then give up stubbornness! Being stubborn means clinging to my way of thinking to a fault. During these times, one of the best antidotes that we have to successfully weather this coronavirus crisis is the giving and receiving […]

December 17, 2020 View Article

Disruption

By Anne Quiello TLG Senior Consultant & 2021 Women in Leadership Coordinator Excerpts from 12-11-2020 Women in Leadership Fireside Chat Speaker Kathleen Edge- EVP Ops Southwire The following are excerpts from our last Women In Leadership Seminar, featuring Kathleen Edge, EVP of Operations for Southwire. She was asked to speak on the topic of Disruption. […]

December 17, 2020 View Article

Whole Brain® TEAM Thinking – 40 Years of Brain-Based Global Research and Scientific Validation

By Marty Gupta TLG Vice President Strategic Services Three million individuals have used the Herrmann Brain Dominance Instrument (HBDI®) to understand thinking preferences and harness Whole Brain® thinking. This intuitive tool has also been used by teams to improve communications and decision-making, resulting in increased diversity and inclusion, team effectiveness and productivity. Building on ‘left […]

November 13, 2020 View Article

Building Relationships of Alignment and Commitment through Everything DiSC®

By Anne Quiello MS, PCC Several years ago, my husband and I had the good fortune of sitting with former President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter at a small gathering. We took this rare opportunity to ask the President how he was able to negotiate the famous peace agreement between Anwar el-Sadat […]

November 12, 2020 View Article

Creating “Win-Win” Agreements for Team Conflicts

By Chris McCusker TLG Senior Consultant We are all experiencing, and witnessing, heartfelt reactions to recent events in politics. Each day seems to be a new episode in a highly rated, binge-worthy, docudrama reality TV series. And this political drama has played out in the stressed-out context of COVID-19 and violent protests of racism […]

November 12, 2020 View Article

Tino’s Corner: Great Leaders Overcome Personal Adversity

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO Not every great leader has faced personal adversity and, of course, not everyone who has faced their own trials and tribulations becomes an exceptional leader. All things being equal I have always given additional consideration, when I think about greatness, to those that have had to overcome significant […]

October 13, 2020 View Article

Interdepartmental Conflict Impacts Customer Satisfaction

By Bob Turknett Co-founder & Co-chair TLG At one technology firm, Research & Development and Sales were at war. Each department saw its customer and organization view as the “right” one, and they viewed each other as lazy and incompetent. This new company was experiencing rapid growth, and their challenge was trying to create one […]

September 9, 2020 View Article

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Is the Word “Resilient” an Oxymoron for a 33-Year-Old Company?

Another Perspective: Resilience

Stoics & Resilience

Quick Thoughts on Healthy Resilience

Disruption

Whole Brain® TEAM Thinking – 40 Years of Brain-Based Global Research and Scientific Validation

Building Relationships of Alignment and Commitment through Everything DiSC®

Creating “Win-Win” Agreements for Team Conflicts

Tino’s Corner: Great Leaders Overcome Personal Adversity

Interdepartmental Conflict Impacts Customer Satisfaction