Friday, September 11, 2009

More Than Virtual Action!

Dear Managers and Leaders!

Have you noticed how the Internet can be a good place for discussion? With all the social sites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, or other virtual communities, it is really easy to spend days and nights just staring at a computer reading or discussing with virtual friends. This is all good, but I find that what is missing from all these sites is action. It is so easy to live inside our brain, sharing ideas, photos, and telling people what is going on in our life in 140 characters or less that we often forget to do something!

Social sites bring together people with enormous possibilities! But the sad thing is that this potential rarely translates into actions that are beneficial to the real world. It is not true of all the sites and what I want to do today is to highlight an exceptional event that happened on 09/09/09. I announced this leadership webathon on this blog last Tuesday. Can you imagine 21 consecutive webinars about leadership delivered in 21 hours? Isn’t it INCREDIBLE? It was incredible! The special thing about this webathon is that its organizer, Kwai Yu, and all presenters are part of 2 related virtual communities.

The first of these communities is the Leaders Cafe Foundation that has a virtual presence as a very active group on LinkedIn. You can find it here. The second one is the Differencemakers virtual community led by Ian Berry. It can be found here.

So, if you want to join virtual communities that are doing more than just chatting on the net, you should definitely consider joining these two special communities. I am certainly glad and proud I am part of them. They are dynamic communities, dedicated to DOING something to make this world a better place.

Until next time,

Remi Cote

PS: If you find these postings interesting and would like to learn more about what I can do for you and your team, then please visit www.innovachron.com or contact me directly at remi@innovachron.com.

Monday, September 7, 2009

Invitation to Attend a Leadership Webathon!

Dear Managers and Leaders,

today, I will not give you new contents to read, but I will invite you to a very big international event that is hapening on 09/09/09. Starting at 7am GMT, leadership specialists members of the Leaders Cafe Foundation (LCF) will give 21 free webinars! 21 FREE WEBINARS from leadership specialists coming from 6 different countries. You have never seen so much contents delivered in a single event, I'm sure!

Note that I will give two hours of presentation, the first at 23h GMT (7pm EDT) and the second one right after at midnight GMT (8pm EDT). I hope you will all join me for these two presentations. The first one is explaining 3 complementary models of a team and the other one will talk about some symptoms a leader cannot overlook. The latter is inspired from the series of posts I did on this blog.

The link to attend all webinars is


The official communication with a lot more information now follows. I really hope you can join me and attend these presentations!

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WEBATHON - CELEBRATING THE WORLD DAY OF INTERCONNECTEDNESS ON 090909 THROUGH LEADERSHIP

On 9th September 2009 Leaders Cafe Foundation group and differencemakers community will celebrate World Day of Interconnectedness with a 24 hour webathon (all free). There will be a leadership webinar starting every hour with a great line up of presenters from 6 countries.

The probable program is listed below. Final program will be updated at


Fellow LCF member, Ian Berry has the honour of kicking off the webathon at 8 am London time 090909 (07:00 GMT)

All times listed are GMT (EDT.

07:00 Ian Berry from Australia What Real Leaders Do and fake ones don't
08:00 Heather Davis from Australia "Taking it personally: Small ‘l' leadership"
09:00 Krishna Kumar from Australia You've planned your holiday but have you planned your life?
10:00 Sangeeth Varghese from India Defining moments that can change your life
11:00 Krishna Kumar Growing Roses and Chrysanthemums
12:00 Don Dunoon from Australia Leadership mode: Leadership as grounded in learning and relational work
13:00 Gino Federici Harmonious Oneness
14:00 Rhea D'Souza from India Leadership through storytelling
15:00 Rhea D'Souza At the edge of innovation
16:00 Kwai Yu from United Kingdom Why Should Anyone Be Led By You
17:00 Kwai Yu Finding Purpose
18:00 Kellie Frazier from USA Speak and Write With Intention
19:00 Joel Graham-Blake United Kingdom To Be Announced
20:00 Richard Norris from Scotland 7 Steps To Success
21:00 Ian Berry Standing out from the crowd - how to do today what others will be thinking about tomorrow
22:00 Ian Berry Differencemakers - how doing good is great for your life and work
23:00 Remi Cote from Canada 3 complimentary models of a team
00:00 Remi Cote Symptoms a leader cannot overlook
01:00 Jane Chin from Los Angeles Leaders Cafe Foundation launch in LA
02:00 Jane Chin Personal Branding including the launch of the ebook Who am I? the power of a personal brand by Ian Berry, Jane Chin, Remi Cote, Shelley Dunstone, Joel Graham-Blake, Pat Nautin, Leo Sonneveld, and Kwai Yu.
All participants in these webinars receive a copy of this ebook.
03:00 Jane Chin Personal Branding

You can participate in any of these free webinars by clicking on the following URL at the appropriate time


For more on the World Day of Interconnectedness visit http://www.interconnectedness090909.org/

Friday, September 4, 2009

Your Vision in 7 Quotes

Dear Managers and Leaders!

We already discussed a few times the importance for a team leader to have a clear vision and to share that vision with his entire team. Today, I want to share a few quotes about vision with you. Some of these quotes are taken from the book "The 17 Indisputable Laws of Teamwork" written by John C. Maxwell.

I hope these quotes will inspire you to define a clear and articulated vision, to broadcast it around you, and to live it fully.

"To have a vision gives motivation and assurance to team members."
- John Maxwell

"Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole."
- Bernard Montgomery

"Leaders do not need to be visionaries themselves. The vision can come from anyone."
- Ezra Earl Jones

"I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
- Henry David Thoreau

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it."
- Michelangelo

"The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs."
- Vance Havner

"You must have long-range goals to keep you from being frustrated by short-range failures."
- Charles C. Noble

I hope you enjoyed reading these quotes and found some wisdom in them.

I also want to invite you to a free webinar I'll give on 09/09/09 from 7pm until 9pm EDT. This is part of a larger event hosted by the Leaders Cafe Foundation for the World Day of Interconnectedness. I will present two different topics:

  • 3 Complementary Models of a Team
  • Symptoms Leaders Cannot Overlook

But the event is a 21-hour leadership presentation marathon If you want to join me or learn more about the other sessions, send me an email at remi@innovachron.com and I'll send you all the details.

Remi Cote