In my last posting, I posed the question “why do you want to Lead With Honor?” To continue this series, I’d like to persuade you that we MUST Lead With Honor if we want to maintain our quality of life. This sounds like a pretty drastic statement, but to move the world in a positive […]
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Follow this link to download a free worksheet from my Seminar on Living a Life of Excellence. I ended my last post with this question – Are you leading with honor? More importantly, how do you know? To answer this question requires us to define both leading and honor. I don’t want to approach this
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Are you Leading With Honor? While on Twitter yesterday, someone posted a reply to me that said leadership is “influence with integrity.” I like that definition a lot. Influence alone is dangerous, and while integrity without influence may get you the Good Samaritan award, it won’t result in anything useful getting done. The problem with
As a leader, you must take control of your financial future. There are no exceptions to this rule. To be effective as a leader, you must be comfortable with your financial status. This does not necessarily mean becoming rich, but it does mean that your need to be comfortable with your standard of living. This is important, because
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I recently reviewed the videotape of Oscar Grant’s shooting and am appalled at the response that the Oakland Police Dept. has made. I understand that every law enforcement agency has its policy and procedures for handling shootings, and that there is probably a small team of investigators working on this case right now. However, regardless of the guilt or
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I tend to be a contrarian which often puts me at odds with mainstream thinking. How we deal with rescuing the economy is no exception. While I certainly don’t want to see anyone lose their job or be put on the street, I’m not sure spending $2 Trillion is the answer. What bothers me most is that a
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I’ve been reflecting on the current financial crisis that in retrospect will be a great turning point in the course of our nation. The ease with which Henry Paulsen was granted access to $700 Billion, and the lack of accountability in how it is being spent is mindboggling. To watch the government purchase private corporations
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With all the news about the auto industry, I thought it appropriate to comment on why they are in such a tenuous position. The reasons are simple, failure to look ahead and poor customer service. Enough has been said about their failure over the past twenty years to plan for the long term. But what about customer service? I’d
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While surfing the internet, I came across an interesting website hosted by Carl Icahn. For those of you not familiar with him, he is listed at number 20 on Forbes’ list of richest Americans. He has a reputation, some of it not so great, as being greedy and arrogant. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) today
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Every leader is concerned with building their team. For some of you, it may be a small team of 3-4 people, for others it may mean hundreds or perhaps even thousands. Regardless of the size of your team, every leader should ask themselves, “what do I want out of my team?” As you go about
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