Greetings Leaders! The other day I blogged about success and said that success isn’t defined by money. That is certainly true. However, we all need to make money. Why? Money allows us to care for ourselves and our family. Without money, life can be very miserable indeed. While I wish the world operated more altruistically, […]
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Greetings Leaders! When I trade stocks in the wee hours of the morning I often use different indicators and charts to help me make the best decision possible. Trading stocks is difficult and it helps to have different tools available to ensure I make a good trade. During a lull in the market, I began
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Greetings Leaders! I recently finished teaching a project leadership class and as usual we had some great discussions on what leadership is all about. I believe that there are two facets to leadership: Getting Things Done Honoring others Getting Things Done Leaders must get things done. Period. No excuses. No exceptions. If you can’t get
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Greetings Leaders! As promised, I’m continuing my tips for job seekers. There are a lot of ways to write a resume, but here are a few very common mistakes that I’ve seen people make recently. Lack of focus. Your resume should target a specific job which means you’re going to have to have more than
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Greetings Leaders! I had the privilege of serving as a coach at a career fair last night and have reviewed quite a few resumes lately. I want to pass on some observations based on common errors that I see people making and will be making several posts on this topic over the next week or
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Greetings Leaders! We all face decisions in our life don’t we? Obviously, some are larger than others. Some of you are dealing with decisions regarding your health, your relationships or your finances. Others are trying to decide what to wear this morning. Wouldn’t it be nice to have some guidelines to help us when making
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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! 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! On July 1st, a few more consultants were let go by my client. One of them. an IT Technician, had been with them for 12 years. He was well liked and competent and had a quirky but funny sense of humor. While he hadn’t been given specific notice that he was going to
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Greetings Leaders! I entered the world of consulting in 2001 after leaving a small firm that had to downsize because it lost a major client in a poor economy. I wanted to teach leadership development to teens and small businesses and for a year I stumbled about trying to find a way to make a
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