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“I’m Not a Businessman; I’m a Business, Man!”
Business leader Jay-Z continues his way from success to significance When I finished reading Jay-Z’s recent book Decoded, one of the verses of Coolio’s classic “Gangsta’s Paradise” popped into my mind:...
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Future Leaders: Leading Our Most Precious
THREE STORIES, ONE POINT. If we want our students to be equipped to lead in the future, we need to provide them with teachers and counselors who are equipped to lead them today. Story #1 :: A Bad Apple...
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10 Ways to Encourage Innovation
I firmly believe it is a mistake of leaders to feel they can force innovation or even create innovative people. Innovation, in its purest form, means change. And while change can be forced upon people,...
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Katie Couric’s Evolution to Leadership
While tiptoeing through the tulips of online nice-to-knows, I stumbled upon a time capsule of sorts. Er, wait a second. That really doesn’t do it justice. Let me try this again. While in search of...
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John Wooden’s Winning Principles
I have always been a BIG follower of John Wooden! I have read every book on him and have worked to apply his principles to my business, my relationships, and my life. A Standard of Excellence I...
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Blankity-Blank-Blank Nerves!!
Nerves! Those blankity-blank-blank nerves! Yes, you heard me. Nerves. Those darn nerves! Always around, never a dull moment: “nerves” have gotten the best of us and promoted the worst of us....
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Handling Conflict at Work: The Leader’s Role
Are you having people problems at work? So how does this make you feel? How many of you look forward to participating actively in a conflict at work, confident that the underlying issues will be...
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Take Me To Your Leader
Okay. How many of you just read the title of this blogacle sounding like an alien or a robot? C’mon, I know you did. That “joke” has been around for so long, it’s just become a habit. Kind of like...
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Is Friendship a Leadership Quality?
If you had asked me ten years ago if “friendship” is a leadership quality, I doubt I would have given it more than a second before declaring this: “No!” Friendship is not and should not be part of...
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On Leadership and Learning Executive Presence
As a professional speaker and facilitator of leadership development workshops, I often get the chance to be in front of leaders to help them fine-tune their personal leadership effectiveness in my...
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Leadership Follies: The Art of Management by Shiny Objects
One of the biggest issues that face many leaders today is the lack of clarity in the direction of their teams and organizations. This is most evident directly after a big change. It is not that team...
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Conflict, Daggers, and Punches at Work
Are you ready for the really BIG holiday season moving into high gear? Are you ready for the hectic effort to push and pull everything and everyone around you up that steep hill to profits from now...
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On Leadership, Being Right or Just Making it Right
It took me a couple of years of being a leader to get to the point of maturity where I could readily admit this humble truth about “being right”: It just doesn’t matter who is right (my company or the...
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Leading Change: Meet Me Where I Am
When an organization under goes a big change, there is often times a lot of visual evidence that something is new or different. People, places, or things are no longer how they were and the way things...
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Executive Effectiveness: 4 Insights on Becoming Inspiring
One of the most important competencies a leader must master is the ability to inspire people. On Inspiration and Motivation There is a difference between inspiration and motivation. =============...
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Leading Customer Service
Good customer service doesn’t begin nor end with the customer. It begins with the leader and, well, I don’t believe it ever ends. Defining Customer Service You may have heard the saying that,...
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Hey Leaders: People Are People
It’s important to see that people are people. Sounds like an easy concept, doesn’t it? But it’s not! On Leadership And Empathy Viewing people as people means that we understand that others have...
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On Leadership, Sherlock Holmes and The Analytical Leader
Being Holmes Known particularly for his shrewd logical reasoning, Detective Sherlock Holmes most certainly possesses a strength both envied and despised. Despite the efforts of those he seeks to...
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A Regular Winston Churchill: Leading with the Strength of Communication
We hear time and time again the key to success of any kind is good communication. If we want to have healthy personal relationships, effective teams, or become a great leader, we have to learn how to...
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Wise Leaders Embrace “Benign Subversives”
We all hate naysayers, snipers and back room gossips. They subvert our vision, undermine our message and divert attention from our objectives. They must be rooted out, disciplined, fired! “Men in...
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