Courageous Thoughts

MUSINGS FROM FOUNDER CINDY SOLOMON

Customer Service

How Tesla Changed My Mind About the Superiority of Big Brands

Good news. You can buy a pre-owned Tesla online for not a bazillion dollars. But there’s a catch.

Creating a product or service and convincing customers to buy it can seem like the hardest part of doing business. But that, my business-savvy readers, is just the beginning.

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Courageous Leadership

How Lizzo and Vogue Set a New Standard for Equality and Inclusion

When the October 2020 issue of Vogue arrived in my mailbox, I was shocked. Maybe a little appalled.

I’m not a subscriber. Don’t get me wrong, I think the fashion industry is… interesting. I’ve seen Devil Wears Prada (twice). But honestly? Glossy magazines represent a perfume-infused dream world – fashion, makeup, models, skipped meals – that is not even close to my reality.

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Employee Engagement

Take A Break To Build Your Results

Are you feeling a sense of foreboding? An unshakable dread that someone from work will … need you … to do something … during the holiday break?

Or immediately before? Or (shocked face emoji) immediately afterwards, which just ruins everything anyway?

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Courageous Leadership

Got Productivity Issues? Think More Like Elon Musk.

Let me be clear right up front, I don’t know Mr. Musk personally and there’s a whole lot I disagree with him on (in particular, how he dealt with his employees during the height of the coronavirus). But I feel in my bones that this larger than life person who figuratively and literally manages to produce and deliver through wind, snow, sleet, hail, fire, and outer space is not reacting to the chaos around us with unfettered emotion. Whether or not you agree with him, there’s something to be learned about courageous leadership here.

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Getting Centered

3 Ways to Get a Grip and Recoup Your Productivity

I have a confession to make. I jumped on the election news frenzy roundabout. I know, I know! But it was only for a little bit, honestly. Everyone else was doing it and it just looked so exciting!

Hi, I’m Cindy. I teach courageous leadership and I’m a dopamine addict. I can’t get enough of spinny things. And neither can you!

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Courageous Leadership

3 Surprising Secrets to Becoming a Courageous Leader

As both a recovering corporate executive and a successful entrepreneur, I’ve seen my fair share of great leaders and, I’ll level with you, some pretty horrible ones. And we’re seeing examples of both right now in the reactions to COVID-19. When you think about it, we’ve all spent most of our careers noting (whether consciously or unconsciously) those leaders that are hitting it out of the park… and those who should be kicked OUT of the park.

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