Greetings Leaders! Paying for health care is a complicated subject and it is not my purpose here to rehash all the statistics or reasons behind our current health care dilemma. If you are looking for some consolidated information, follow this link to the National Coalition on Health Care. What I do want to discuss over […]
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Greetings Leaders! I’m going to apologize up front for deviating a little bit from leadership and personal development and talk about the stock market, for just a moment. Let me make this perfectly clear, I am not an expert in the stock market. However, I do actively day trade and therefore have more opportunity to
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Greetings Leaders! During a leadership class I was teaching for the California Highway Patrol, we were discussing “Ways of Knowing.” The general premise that I put forth was that a leader routinely asks two questions: What do I know? How do I know it is true? As a leader, you are asked to make decisions
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Greetings Leaders! As I get older I have come to the realization that life can impact you in two ways. You will either enjoy the life you have by learning from life’s lessons, or you will become old and cynical as you let let past trials and tribulations hammer you down. I was sitting in
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Greetings Leaders! Today in history – On June 4, 1942 the U.S found itself trying to recover from the events of Pearl Harbor, as it tried to stop the Japanese advance across the Pacific at a little know island called Midway. At Pearl Harbor, the US Pacific fleet was decimated with the loss of all
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Greetings Leaders! In an effort to stay relevant and useful to my clients, I often ask myself “what value am I adding to the projects I manage?” There are many different ways a project manager can be engaged on a project and these include: High level or strategic project managers who focus on aligning projects
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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! 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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