Greetings Leaders! This is the fourth posting in the series, How to Run Better Meetings. The first posting dealt with executive sponsorship The second with having meetings with purpose The third with inviting the right people This posting will address the mechanics of running a meeting. Before you actually start your meeting, establish Ground Rules […]
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Greetings Leaders! I recently read Wally Bock’s blog where he commented on Bob Sutton’s blog on a NY Times article written by Randy Cohen titled, “When Layoffs Are Immoral“. The article and the responses were thought povoking to say the least, and I wanted to add another perspective. Randy Cohen raised some very interesting points
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Greetings Leaders! I’ve only recently gotten more involved in Social Media, and still have a lot of business acquaintances and friends who smirk at using it, especially Twitter. They would rather stick to the old fashion way of building relationships and don’t understand how Twitter can change their world. Social Media has changed my life.
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife Greetings Leaders! I look around at the world and think, what the @#$! So much is wrong with the world. Murder, Corruption, Drugs, Prostitution, Child Abuse, Wars, Genocide, Religious Fanaticism, Terrorism… the list goes on and on. I look at our civic leaders both locally and around the world,
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Greetings Leaders! This is the third posting in the series, How to Run Better Meetings. The first posting dealt with executive sponsorship The second with having meetings with purpose This posting will address getting people to come to your meetings. So let me start off by asking a question. Why don’t people come to meetings?
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Greetings Leaders! This is the second posting on How to Run Better Meetings. In the first posting, we discussed the importance of getting executive sponsorship to improve meeting effectiveness across the organization. Today we are going to look at the first tactical step in improving the outcomes of meetings that YOU lead. I am defining
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Greetings Leaders! I was reading the Sacramento Bee yesterday when I came across a relatively short article that caught my attention. The Chancellors at UC Davis and UC San Francisco are both getting pay raises, while student fees are increasing (You can read the article here…). Linda Katehi chancellor of UC Davis, will be bringing
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Greetings Leaders! A friend on twitter (@markviii) suggested I write a blog on how to run better corporate board meetings. I’ve taught this before, and thought it would be an easy blog to write. Boy was I mistaken. After giving this some serious thought, I decided to run this as a series because of all
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Greetings Leaders, Sitting in Starbucks, looking for ideas that you might find helpful or useful. Came across this video of Nick Vujicic. I had the privilege of seeing Nick speak at Bayside Church about 6 months ago. You have to check his story out. I can’t add anything to the video… it speaks for itself.
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Randy Gage posed a very interesting question on his blog. He asked, “How much success would you need before you would go into any endeavor expecting to succeed?” My response… Very thought provoking. It generated questions of my own. Does success depend on prior success? Or – Does success depend upon learning from prior failures?
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