A good friend of mine shared that his grandmother was one of the first women to enter the Army Nurse Corps in World War II.  She was commissioned as a 2^nd Lieutenant and decades later still pulled rank when he would stay home sick from school.  She’d take him gallons of water throughout the day and take his temperature with an old glass and mercury thermometer.  He still saw her snapping her wrist just so to make the thermometer click and she could read the result without glasses.  He, however, had never been able to read a glass thermometer though he could write a dissertation on how to do so. (more…)

I’ve been hearing you, “Liz,” you say, “I know all about intelligence, emotional intelligence, and even values.  While I do need to think about quantifying these for my leadership pipeline these concepts aren’t that new.”  Today’s fifth element will just what you are looking for.

Learning Agility is the ultimate “X” factor for success in a dynamic and capricious business world.  (more…)