Greetings Leaders! I hate to lose. My mantra in life has been, if you don’t think you can win, then don’t try. While you might think I missed some opportunities in life because of this, I actually have tried a lot of things. Why is this? The answer is simple, because I always think I […]
Greetings Leaders! As a consultant, I’ve had the pleasure of working in many distinct environments and cultures. There was the US Navy where a strict chain of command was obviously enforced. There were large corporations such as IBM and HealthNet. Government agencies include the State of California, California State University and Sacramento County. I also
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Greetings Leaders, This morning I am thinking about my growing list of acquaintances who are out of work. So many of them are wondering what happened. People in my generation were told, “work hard and you will be rewarded.” Now as the economy goes down the tank, many feel like they were sold a bunch
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Greetings Leaders! While coaching someone recently I had to impart the difficult concept that as leaders, sometimes doing the right thing, can be the wrong choice. The situation that came up revolved around perfection and the stance being taken was it was wrong to release software to the client, if it wasn’t perfect. While the
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Greetings Leaders! If there is anything that I have seen torpedo someone’s career quicker than you can blink an eye, it is emotional immaturity. Emotional immaturity is easy to recognize. Have you seen these things in your office? The emotional ranter: An inappropriate emotional response given the situation. You know, the person who speaks with
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Greetings Leaders! Ok… I’m a bit ticked off. First for being taken in. Second – I’m so darn tired of people like the White family (if that’s their true name) taking advantage of others. Alright, I didn’t lose any money and certainly not a lot of time, but my credibility matters and more importantly, there
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Greetings Leaders… I found this short video of big wave surfer Dylan Longbottom taken by Brett Barley on StumbleUpon, and it reminded me of what it takes to capture perfection. To capture this moment on film took a lifetime. Sure, the video is only about a minute long, but think about it. To get to
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Greetings Leaders! I’ve been loosely following Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner project and thought I’d throw out a few high level lessons learned. Here are two interesting articles on the project, one written in June 2006 and the other in June 2009. Let me start off with the bottom line – the project is delayed over 2
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Greetings Leaders! Over the past few months, I witnessed a few situations that made me realize that people need some guidance on who should be promoted. Here are Ten Promotion Leadership Tips. Don’t promote someone just because they… have been there the longest (longevity means nothing) are technically competent (technical competency does not equate to
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Greetings Leaders! After checking popular search engine key words, it appears that people are looking to overcome discouragement. You can find another blog about this here. Today, I hope to provide perspective on overcoming defeat. Overcoming defeat is a state of mind. My question to you is… Can you be defeated? To overcome defeat, your
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