Chris Boelkes Posted on Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 10:22AM In this episode Dr. Mark Goulston speaks with legendary leadership guru Ken Blanchard on becoming real and vulnerable and speaking and living from your heart.
Deb Boelkes Posted on Saturday, March 21, 2020 at 7:50AM 
Question #1: As of now, how has the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the various work, community, and travel-related restrictions being set in place impacted your life, personally and professionally?
Linda’s Answer: In a nutshell, it has turned my personal and professional life upside down.
At home, my husband is on a work-from-home mandate. My two college-aged children are now dealing with online learning scenarios as both of their universities have cancelled classes for the rest of the semester.
My oldest is set to graduate, and what a world he will be entering in two months. My youngest is working on her “Plan B” for summer since her study abroad plans to Spain have been cancelled.
All my business travel to conferences and speaking engagements have been cancelled, and three personal trips have been put on ice.
Chris Boelkes Posted on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 at 7:54AM 
Deb Boelkes
Question #2: What heartfelt "best-ever boss" words of wisdom do you have to share with leaders and aspiring leaders?
Deb’s Answer:
As the former Chairman and CEO of General Electric, Jack Welch, once said, “Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.”
Chris Boelkes Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 at 2:38PM 
This is the first installment in what we hope will be a series of blog posts from role model Heartfelt Leaders. The intent of this series is to enable you to lead with love and assuredness in this season of coronavirus uncertainty. We hope you will be inspired to “keep calm and carry on”, and to the best of your ability, help others do the same.
Within this series, we have asked Heartfelt Leaders (some of the same role models featured in our books, The WOW Factor Workplace and Heartfelt Leadership), to respond to the two questions Deb addresses below. Read on.
Question #1: As of now, how has the evolving coronavirus pandemic and the various work, community, and travel-related restrictions being set in place impacted your life, personally and professionally?
Chris Boelkes Posted on Monday, March 16, 2020 at 2:02PM 
Somehow, the world as we knew it, at least here in the US, seemed to fall off a cliff this past week.
It’s hard to imagine it was only two months ago that we began to hear news reports about a novel type of coronavirus, now called COVID-19, emanating from Wuhan, China. Just six weeks ago, about all that most of us knew was that it was something akin to SARS, MERS, or the Hong Kong flu … or worse, like pneumonia.
We were shocked to start seeing scenes streaming over the internet and cable tv of panoramic videos captured by drones flying above the city of Wuhan, vividly showing the eeriness of empty streets and bridges, completely void of cars and people.
The exception to the emptiness was footage capturing shots of individuals being dragged from their homes by all fours and thrown into vans, to be carted off to who knows where, by officials wearing biosecurity hazmat suits. Such videos, coupled with the increasing number of reports warning us this novel coronavirus had the potential to spread very far very fast, sparked a global anxiety.
Chris Boelkes Posted on Monday, January 27, 2020 at 12:50PM 
It’s amazing how many managers claim, “It’s not my job to get people to want to work here. It’s not my responsibility to motivate them. They are either motivated or they’re not.”
Lean back in your chair; close your eyes; and think about a time when you were working in the zone — the WOW zone — loving the job you were doing so much that you would have done it for free if you had some other way to pay the bills.
That’s motivation.
The WOW Zone
Read the entire 4-minute article here.
Deb Boelkes Posted on Monday, September 9, 2019 at 3:05PM 
At long last, the Heartfelt Leadership book Dr. Mark and I have been collaborating on for years now is finally coming to life. Best of all, since we made you wait soooo long, we’re actually delivering not just one, but two books in the coming months. Taaa-Daaa!
For those of you who may not be familiar with how these books came to be, here goes:
Shortly after Dr. Mark and I met for the first time, about eight years ago, we got to know each other over a business lunch. It was then that I shared a story with Dr. Mark about my recent participation on a technology industry executive panel discussion on the topic of passion and engagement. Toward the end of this event, we panelists took questions from the audience.
One man from the audience stood up and directed a comment to me, stating “you obviously lead from your heart.” He then continued, “and we all know there is no room for that in business.” I was totally stunned, especially since the discussion topic was “How to drive more passion and engagement in the workplace”.
Mark Goulston Posted on Saturday, May 26, 2018 at 12:55PM 
Q: If one picture's worth a thousand words, what are the following videos worth?
A: A nation's thanks
Rather than writing about Memorial Day, I thought I'd share some youtube videos that caused me to take time to remember and give thanks.
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