Blog - Leadership
Articles and blog posts on our many leadership topics.
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Read ArticleBalancing Humility and Hubris
Leadership requires a balance of humility and hubris. Scott Miller offers four tips that all leaders can use to help in this delicate balancing act.
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Read ArticleThe Deliberate Presenter
Scott Miller shares some great ideas to take into consideration whenever you make a presentation. From defining your purpose and assessing your performance, and everything in between.
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Read Article6 Tips To Stay Cool Through Bad News
Scott Miller shares six leadership tips to keep your cool and to successfully lead through bad news.
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Read ArticleKnow Your Stuff
Scott Miller shares a challenge with presenters everywhere: Know your stuff inside and out. Don't rely on anything besides your knowledge and passion for the subject to communicate your message.
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Read ArticleThe Incalculable Value of Affirming Others
Scott Miller shares the incalculable value of affirming others and how it can have a long lasting impact on a person's life.
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Read ArticleWhat's Your Story?
Scott Miller shares the importance of knowing your story as a leader, especially how it helps you to effectively coach others to find theirs.
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Read ArticleThe Focusing Power of No
It is incumbent upon leaders to say no to good ideas every day in order to focus on the wildly important strategic goals of their organizations.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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