Tom on Leadership  

Four of the top experts on Procrastination, in four 15-minute interviews - how to spot Procrastination, diagnose it, beat it, and help others out of it. Guests include:
Dr. Toni Galardi, Ph.D. of LifeQuake Enterprises
DeAnna Radaj of Bante Design LLC
Rita Emmett of Emmett Enterprises, Inc.
Dr. Jayme Albin of Ask the Cognitive Behavior Therapist

My first guest is Marc Lesser, CEO of ZBA Associates LLC. He is developing and teaching a leadership program at Google called "Search Inside Yourself." Marc was a resident of the San Francisco Zen Center for 10 years and is the author of Less: Accomplishing More By Doing Less, and Z.B.A. Zen of Business Administration: How Zen Practice Can Transform Your Work and Your Life. He has an MBA degree from New York University. My second guest, George Hedley, owns a $50 million construction and real estate development business as well as HARDHAT Presentations. He speaks to 50 business groups a year, and will bring us his insights into Effective Delegation. He is the author of "Get Your Business to Work."

Leaders need accurate knowledge, and since Shakespeare's Henry V they've used anonymous surveys and other tools to get it. We talk with John Russell of The Russell Consulting Group about employee surveys, customer surveys, how to use them and how not to.
My second guest is the many-talented Francie Dalton of Dalton Alliances, Inc. and author most recently of the book Versatility.
Anybody who cares about employee retention and customer loyalty will want to listen.

Top performing leaders almost invariably have a formal or informal group of advisors and mentors, a sort of Personal Board of Directors, with whom they share their problems and from whom they seek advice and counsel. How can you create or improve your Personal Board of Directors? What should you be looking for from such a group, and how do you maintain it?

Our first guest is Jack Bergstrand, CEO of Brand Velocity and author of Reinvent Your Enterprise, endorsed by The Drucker Institute.

Our second guest, Richard Levick, Esq. is the President and CEO of Levick Strategic Communications, the largest crisis communications firm in the world, and author of three books including "STOP THE PRESSES: The Crisis and Litigation PR Desk Reference". He is a frequent contributor to BulletproofBlog.com—the nation’s top crisis communications blog and his fourth book will be titled "Profit of Courage".