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Read ArticleDo you want to start benefiting from feedback, but don’t know where to begin?
Making It Safe to Tell the Truth (Practice #13 in Todd Davis’s bestselling book on effective relationships, Get Better) is an important theme when setting the groundwork for receiving feedback.
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Read ArticleManagement vs. Leadership: The Great Debate
Scott Miller explores the difference between management and leadership and the necessity of one over the other when it comes to working with people.
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Read ArticleWe Are All Project Managers
Everyone is a project manager, regardless of their formal title. We all manage project constantly, and as leaders, the place we can influence the success of a project the most is with the people.
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Read ArticleAn Appeal To CEOs: Stop Firing Your Sales Teams
Revenue growth and sales team development don’t have to be mutually exclusive. But, too often, CEOs tend to see it that way. Maybe that’s why, at companies that struggle with unpredictable sales.
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Read ArticlePeak, Trough, and Recovery
Three words that recently, and very practically, changed my leadership style. I’ve known Daniel Pink for nearly 10 years and found his books to be both inspiring and pragmatic.
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Read ArticleBreaking Deeply Embedded Habits
Well-intentioned resolutions will fall flat in the face of stiff restraining forces without character and social reinforcements.Every organization and individual struggles
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Read ArticleOvercoming Appetites and Passions
In each of our lives, there are powerful restraining forces at work to pull down any new resolution or initiative. Among those forces are appetites and passions.
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Read ArticleOvercoming Pride and Pretension
In each of our lives, there are powerful restraining forces at work to pull down any new resolution or initiative. Among those forces are pride and pretension.
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Read ArticleOvercoming Unbridled Aspiration and Ambition
In each of our lives, there are powerful restraining forces at work to pull down any new resolution or initiative. Among those forces are aspiration and ambition.
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Read ArticleParadigms
Paradigm comes from the Greek root, paradigma. It basically means a pattern, a model, a representation, something that stands for something else.
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Read ArticleExamples of Servant Leaders
In many organizations I've worked in or with, I've seen examples of servant leaders who have really made a difference.
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Read ArticleFlying High
I once had an experience that for me was a simulation of servant leadership. I was working with the Oregon Air National Guard and was scheduled to go up in an F-15.
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Read ArticleNew Wine - Old Bottles
The adage that "you can't put new wine in old bottles" still holds true, as evidenced by attempts to profit senior executives with new leadership styles.
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Read ArticleKeys to Total Quality
The key to a total quality company is a total quality person who knows how to program and use a compass. I've always liked the expression, "If it's going to be, it's up to me."
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Read ArticleFirst Things First
I've learned that the good is the enemy of the best when the first things in our lives are subordinated to other things.
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Read ArticleSubordinate the Clock to Compass
For many executives, the dominant metaphor of life is still the clock. We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place - after effectiveness.
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Read ArticleCurrents in the Stream
When I talk of the "stream," I mean the external forces and the powerful, deep currents that influence all we do in business. Changes in technology have totally revolutionized our world.
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Read ArticleMoral Compassing
When managing in the wilderness of the changing times, a map is of limited worth. What's needed is a moral compass.
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Read ArticleRoots Yield Fruits
With the humility that comes from being principle-centered, we can better learn from the past, have hope for the future, and act with confidence, not arrogance, in the present.
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Read ArticleNurturing Our Unique Gifts
Enhancing these endowments requires us to nurture and exercise them continuously. Sharpening the saw once a week or once a month just isn't enough.
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