Dr. Dewett is an author, scholar, management professor, speaker, radio host, consultant, caffeine addict, and Harley Davidson nut. His job is to build better leaders and teams. He is the author of The Little Black Book of Leadership and the creator of the video coaching site Fuel4Leaders.com. Recent clients include: Booz Allen Hamilton, State Farm, JM Smucker, Medtronic, TGI Fridays, Standard Register, Cox Media, NCR, Sogeti, Emerson, University of Tennessee, RustOleum, and many more. His unique brand of energetic leadership knowledge has resulted in quotes in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes, CNN, Investors Business Daily, MSNBC, and hundreds of other outlets. Since beginning his career with Andersen Consulting and Ernst & Young, he has since consulted with, trained, spoken to, or coached thousands of professionals around the world. Visit his home online at www.drdewett.com. Contact Todd at todd@drdewett.com. Todd Dewett - UCSC Extension in Silicon Valley
Dr. Dewett is an author, scholar, management professor, speaker, radio host, consultant, caffeine addict, and Harley Davidson nut. His job is to build better leaders and teams. He is the author of The Little Black Book of Leadership and the creator of the video coaching site Fuel4Leaders.com. Recent clients include: Booz Allen Hamilton, State Farm, JM Smucker, Medtronic, TGI Fridays, Standard Register, Cox Media, NCR, Sogeti, Emerson, University of Tennessee, RustOleum, and many more. His unique brand of energetic leadership knowledge has resulted in quotes in the New York Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes, CNN, Investors Business Daily, MSNBC, and hundreds of other outlets. Since beginning his career with Andersen Consulting and Ernst & Young, he has since consulted with, trained, spoken to, or coached thousands of professionals around the world. Visit his home online at www.drdewett.com. Contact Todd at todd@drdewett.com. Leadership Lessons From a Kindergarten Play
This week was my youngest son’s first school play. He was Pig #2 in a version of The Three Little Pigs. As I stood on a chair in the back of the room aiming my video recorder it dawned on me that there were a few useful leadership lessons unfolding before me. Try these on: [...]
The Horrors of Email Abuse
I teach and preach leadership to one audience or another 365 days each year. The biggest slice of the leadership pie is probably communication. One of the most interesting topics within the area of communication is email use. Excuse me… what I meant is email abuse! Technology is fascinating but it must be used with [...]
Know What Your Body is Saying!
The CEO begs them once more, “We need new ideas guys.” While he speaks this sentence, every member of his top team averts their eyes, choosing instead to look at the floor, a report, or their smart phone. I’ve watched versions of this scene thousands of times. In this case, the history of dealing with [...]
Don’t Smoke the Newspaper
One of the best pieces of advice I can give you regarding decision-making is to stand on your own two feet. Yes, there will be times you will find it strategically useful to defer to someone else’s view. Yes, there are times when you need to go along to get along. Fine, but most of [...]
Leadership Thought of the Day: RIP Steve Jobs!
The world recently lost one of the finest visionaries ever: Steve Jobs. Like many others, I feel compelled to say something about it. There will be two quick parts to this rant. First, a note about how we unproductively think about our heroes in unrealistic and idealistic ways. Second, I would like to share a few [...]
Soccer has Ruined America
Our economy is enormous and is still the envy of much of the world, despite our decaying financial condition. How best to improve our economy in the long-term? I suggest the answer has little to do with stimulus spending or reductions in the size of government. Depending on your view, these variables might have an [...]
A Fresh Take on Time Management
Most professionals tell me they never have enough time to do everything they wish to do in a given day, week, or month. That is bull. They simply have not used the available time correctly. There are three main issues that you have to contend with if you want to control time instead of allowing [...]
The Essence of Personal Improvement
One of my favorite topics in professional life concerns the things we do to develop ourselves. The most interesting part of this topic is realizing that it is not complex. The ideas you need to master are well known and quite simple. The only question is whether or not you will become committed to building [...]
