Posts by Paul Curci
Stories of APPRECIATION – How One Person or Idea Can Change the Trajectory of an Organization
Story #1 I once facilitated a planning retreat for a 17-person leadership team of a local technology company… In preparing some of the content, we decided to review the “2022 Milestones.” The CEO was going to prepare the slide and send it to me before the retreat. I received it one-day prior, and it contained…
Read MoreIn Every Type of Organization, Clear Communication, and Trust Drive Performance
The less energy you spend trying to figure out what the leader is thinking, or interpreting what’s being said, or not being said; the less you’re preoccupied with whether they trusts you… the more you can focus of producing results. Case in point… The Philadelphia Phillies, despite one of the most high-powered lineups in the…
Read More5 Strategies to Communicate, Connect, and Lead During a Pandemic
By: Robert Hackman Covid-19 has become the primary preoccupation of our minds and hearts (in addition to Racial Injustice). Everything in our life and business is “contaminated” by the threats posed by the virus. Many of us would rather not have to focus on its implications on health, family, relationships, work, businesses, communities, and society.…
Read MoreConnection, Inclusion and Working Remotely
We don’t often talk about the consequences of working remotely from the perspective of the remote employee… but we should. Working remotely is a growing trend that’s not likely to reverse itself anytime soon, and it’s worth preparing yourself and your team for one potential unintended consequence. Our need to belong to a group, or…
Read MoreUsing Art as a Frame for Expanding Leadership Competencies
What happens when managers and leaders look more closely and apply other “right-brained” competencies to drive growth and lead change?  Using the Barnes Collection as a backdrop to see management and leadership in a new and memorable way, the Barnes Foundation has launched the Research, Education, Adaptation, and Development (READ) Praxis. This new professional development…
Read MoreWhat Kind of team are we, anyway?
A new executive team, flush with investor capital, pulls together a group of highly skilled experts to build out a plan and operational strategy for a new digital healthcare platform. Each member of the nine-person leadership team was brought in for their specialized skills and experience – some from the startup world, others from established…
Read MoreCreativity
In a February 1995 article, Steve Jobs answered an interview question about the value of well-designed products by saying, “Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a…
Read MoreFrom Artist to Executive Coach
From Artist to Executive Coach Ten reasons an arts education makes good business sense As an executive coach with a degree in fine art, I’m often asked “How did you go from artist to executive coach”? It’s a fair question. To clarify, in between I did spend a huge chunk of my career running a…
Read MoreWhy Teams Matter
What’s at stake when YOUR team under performs? A team whose job it is to execute the heart transplant of a beloved public figure probably has more at stake than a team charged with assembling boxes at the local Krispy Kreme. That said, every team who is relied upon to collectively execute on their…
Read MoreRethinking The Way We See
Last Friday, my associate, Mare Rosenbaum and I had the opportunity to participate in Amy Herman’s terrific session on Visual Intelligence with a group of FBI Intelligence Analysts in Washington, DC. Among other things, the program, titled Rethinking How We See, uses the visual arts to train agents how to sharpen our perception and look…
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