Debra Benton’s Blog “Taking You From Promise To Prominence”

I’d like to share some lessons I’ve learned about integrity from speaking with the best business leaders out there:

The same show has to go on in front as on the “backside of the curtain.”
Your outward appearance has to show what’s beneath the skin.
Just because you don’t like someone, doesn’t mean the person lacks integrity.
What goes [...]

photo credit: SimonDoggett
When you see CEOs hauled off to jail in handcuffs, skewered before Congress and blamed for the Wall Street melt-down you might ask, “Why would I want to be a CEO?”
My response is, “If you are going to work in a company (which most of us are) you might as well work [...]

“CEO Material” is now available everywhere!

Today is the launch day of my new book, “CEO Material: How to Be a Leader in Any Organization” (McGraw-Hill). It’s the culmination of years of work, and surprisingly bells aren’t ringing from the mountainside nor is confetti showering down from the skies. Instead the publisher and I are [...]

101 Things To Add To Your Business Bucket List
“The only successful marriage I had was me and my work.”
- The Bucket List 2007 Jack Nicholson
1. Get fired
2. Quit a job
3. Take a sabbatical
4. [...]

Put a Sharp Point on Your Written Communications
It’s not unusual to get 20 or 200 emails a day. I know someone who gets 2000! If you look at the ones you’ve received (and include snail-mail letters too), you will see that the majority start with “I.”
You typically see, “I’ve attached . . . I [...]