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Tino’s Corner: Being a Connector

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO I am honored to have been selected as a finalist for the Atlanta Technology Professional’s Connector Award. This inaugural award is being given to honor the legacy of Dan Webber posthumously. The award will be presented at the ATP Awards Gala 2022. Dan was the quintessential connector and […]

November 7, 2022 View Article

Ode to the Boss Man

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO Bye-bye boss man, you’ve overstayed your welcome. Even before the industrial revolution, you were the man in charge. It was your way or the highway. Fast forward to a more recent time – the “Boomer” men were trained to be in charge and taught that we were weak […]

October 26, 2022 View Article

Gender Equity in the Workplace

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO Women leaders have everything they need to meet or surpass leadership roles in corporate board rooms and in the C-suite. Yet despite some progress, the gender equity gap looms large. According to 2022 research from FactSet data, only 6.1% of companies in the Russell 3,000, a market-capitalization-weighted equity […]

October 12, 2022 View Article

Fear of Failure: Performance Standards

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO This article is adapted from Tino’s For What It’s Worth Video Series Fear of failure can be the enemy of innovation. Fear of failure can be the enemy of change. Performance standards can be the enemy of both innovation and change. And I’ve always been a believer in […]

October 4, 2022 View Article

Tino’s Corner: Advancement – It’s Not Always Fair

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO It’s a better than 50/50 bet that the best person doesn’t always get the promotion. This applies to the quiet, the loud, the bold, the shy, the remote worker, the poor dresser, the smartest person in the room, the one with little executive presence, the woman or man […]

September 26, 2022 View Article

Making Development Personal in a Tech-driven World

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO Prior to the pandemic, leadership development was always very personal. Most of our services were done in-person, and almost every client came to our Atlanta office. When Covid-19 hit, we had to quickly pivot. All of our services, including coaching, had gone virtual. As the pandemic has wined […]

September 8, 2022 View Article

Empathetic Leadership in STEM

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO When you think about Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM), what is the first word that comes to your mind? I bet that none of you thought “empathy”. On Friday, August 26th, we greeted eighteen ninth-grade ladies from the Innovation Academy, a new Fulton County public magnet STEM […]

September 8, 2022 View Article

The Winner Effect

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO How do you give people have the best chance to win? And by win, I mean being successful at their job. I was listening to something by Darren Hardy, it’s called “Darren Daily”. He produces a message five days a week and periodically I listen to him. Recently, […]

August 19, 2022 View Article

Tino’s Corner: Why We Should All Adopt an Enterprise Mindset

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO C-Suite executives generally encourage, evaluate, and reward functional leaders for exceptional performance within their span of control. Then, because they have done a great job building their piece of the pie, they are promoted and asked to “focus on the whole”, or in other words, focus on the […]

August 17, 2022 View Article

Healthy Living and Happiness

By Tino Mantella TLG President & CEO The Atlanta Business Chronicle (ABC) is a recognition machine, holding nominations throughout the year to recognize individuals and organizations in numerous categories, including 40 under Forty, Best Places to Work, and the HR Excellence awards, to name a few. Turknett Leadership Group (TLG) was recently recognized by the […]

August 3, 2022 View Article