Joe Gerstandt | keynote speaker, freedom fighter, freak-flag flier

So…love proves to be an interesting topic here. I have gotten some pretty passionate e-mails after my posts What About Love and Why Love.  I have heard from people both passionately agreeing with me and passionately disagreeing with me.  Interesting. Since it seems to be interesting, I think I should babble on… I think that   [Read More…]

I try to promote and celebrate the flying of the Freak Flag on Fridays.  The Freak Flag represents a lot of things.   Here are a few… It is the celebration of coloring outside the lines. It is for wearing socks that say something. It is the celebration of chair dancing, because you cannot help it   [Read More…]

Diversity.  Possibly the most poorly understood, misunderstood dyanmic in the world of business (and education, politics, human resources, leadership development, etc.). Diversity means difference.  Difference shows up in many different forms…but before we even take a look at that, I think having a better understanding of what difference actually means can be helpful.  Here are   [Read More…]

I try to celebrate the Freak Flag on Fridays.  the Freak Flag represents a lot of things.   Here are a few… It is the celebration of coloring outside the lines. It is the celebration of chair dancing, because you cannot help it and chalk on the sidewalks and food on the wall and of skipping   [Read More…]

Kind of stuck on the theme of leadership and love this week and wanted to share a couple more thoughts… I think that the absence of relevant leadership may be the defining issue of our time.  A lot of people are and have been greatly concerned about our current economic situation in this country.  A   [Read More…]

In my last post I laid out some thoughts on what leadership must become.  I have spoken at conferences in Virginia and the Midwest in the past year making the case that our antiquated approach to leadership is the underlying challenge of our time.  I do not know that any of my ideas about what   [Read More…]

Mary Schaefer and I have been tossing some questions back and forth, and this is a question we both decided to take a shot at:  We both focus largely on the intangible assets in an organization or community…the things that cannot be easily counted or weighed…things like difference, trust, relationships, culture, etc.  What can we   [Read More…]

Hard questions. I was just minding my own business. Maddie Grant was in Phoenix and Jeff Hurt called her out.  And then she called Jeff and Jamie Notter out.  And then he called me out.  And here I am…called out. Maddie’s question to us was: So go on, tell me my fellow Xers – Have   [Read More…]