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Workforce Resilience NOW

By Lyn Turknett TLG Co-founder & Co-chair (Excerpts from HR Executive) Resilience and change are on the lips of everyone. From Erica Volini at HR Executive: The COVID-19 crisis thrust the workforce into rapid change and the workforce responded in kind. During the pandemic, we have seen workers quickly assume new roles, contribute to opportunities […]

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

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

The Task of a Leader: Balancing Respect and Responsibility

By Bob and Lyn Turknett Leadership can come from anywhere, but wherever you see leadership emerge, we would argue that you will see what we call the “fundamental balance” – the balance of respect and responsibility. Anyone in Atlanta on Aug. 20, 2013 saw that balance demonstrated for the world to see by a school […]

August 13, 2020 View Article

The Dynamics of Inclusion

This panel discussion from 2017 is still extremely relevant. Panel members at that time were: Rock Anderson: Cox Automotive (currently SVP HR Auto Nation) Joe Garcia: Home Depot Senior Director, Talent Management and Organizational Effectiveness Jo Anne Hill: AFLAC (currently Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion at Piedmont Healthcare) Facilitated by Lyn Turknett I’ve been […]

July 7, 2020 View Article

Letter from the Founders

This article was written in June of 2020, shortly after the death of George Floyd on May 25th, 2020. This seems another open casket moment – a time when we cannot look away. We grew up in the segregated south, and one of the acts of quiet courage that changed history was Emmett Till’s open […]

June 11, 2020 View Article

An Experiential Case for doing Individual Development with Executive Teams

By Bob Turknett My wife and business partner, Lyn, often quotes Frances Hesselbein, whose guiding philosophy is: “leadership as not a matter of how to do, but rather a matter of how to be.” Hesselbein transformed the Girl Scouts and later ran the Peter F. Drucker Leadership Institute. Drucker, often viewed as the founding father […]

May 13, 2020 View Article

Three Big Things I’ve Learned about Teams – from Research, from Experience, and from Fran.

by Lyn Turknett May 2020 This month’s newsletter is focused on teams, and I love thinking about teams. Indeed thinking about teams has been my life’s work – how leadership teams function best, why teams fail, and, more recently, what agile teams tell us about the future of enterprise. But as I try to finish […]

May 13, 2020 View Article

Who are Heidi and Howard and Why Does it Matter?

Lyn Turknett, Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Heidi Roizen was a Silicon Valley venture capitalist – one of the first women in a field still dominated by men. In 2000 she was the subject of a business school case. She was confident, competent, and successful. Confidence does not come so easily to many women. Katy Kay […]

January 9, 2020 View Article