Monthly Archives: January 2012

Maril MacDonald of Gagen MacDonald and creator of Let Go & Lead

Survey Says…

In the Let Go and Lead community, we know that, in the last decade, digital and social technologies have reshaped the meaning and expectations of leadership in some fundamental ways. For that reason, we chose to focus our annual Employee Engagement study, which Gagen MacDonald conducts with our friends at APCO Worldwide, on the influence of social media on employee Continue Reading →

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There’s No Crying in Baseball

There’s no “I” in “team.”  There’s also no crying in baseball. The latter refers to a scene from the 1992 film, “A League of Their Own,” starring Tom Hanks as a down and out former professional baseball player coaching a team of female baseball players hired to keep the sport alive while the men were off to fight World War Continue Reading →

Chandler Goodman of Gagen MacDonald

A Homecoming Story

As an Ohio State football fan, I wanted to relay a recent observation I’ve had about the ability of personal narratives and authentic storytelling to power dynamic, inspired leaders. For those that don’t know, it’s been a very rough year for Ohio State football and its fans. An NCAA rules violation and related cover up cost us many of our Continue Reading →