Greetings Leaders! Are you worried about your financial future? If you aren’t, you should be. As Bob Dylan said, These times they are a changing. If you put national pride, ego and heritage aside, it is fairly easy to see that the world is changing around us… fast, and that the US is losing ground […]
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Greetings Leaders, As a leader, I often hope to achieve consensus by working with individuals and groups to get them to a common ground. However, sometimes this just isn’t possible. I recently had several experiences where I had to push an issue until several people got upset with me. If you are practicing true leadership,
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Greetings Leaders! Have you ever led a team that just didn’t want to be led? You know the situation… you inherited a team that has several problem children on it and not everyone will follow your lead. Getting things done is difficult, and getting them to give you status updates is just as hard. If
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Greetings Leaders! I was reading Scott McKain’s Viewpoint where he told a heartwarming story of a woman who was truly a good Samaritan and it got me thinking about an experience I had a few months ago. I was driving to San Francisco with my wife for a weekend get away. We were coming up
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Greetings Leaders! It seems like we all want to feel significant. Sometimes to a fault. We search and search and search, only to come away frustrated. I want to encourage you to continue searching… by doing. While working at IBM, I was selected to attend what turned out to be the best seminar I have
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Greetings Leaders! I haven’t blogged on this topic before, but I have several friends struggling with their marriage and have this on my mind and heart. Let me start off by saying that I am no different than you. I have good days in my marriage, and bad. I’ve messed up and lost my wife’s
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Greetings Leaders! In the first two posts of this series, we discussed having a purpose for your meeting, establishing ground rules and getting the right people there. Today I am going to discuss handling politics and controlling the meeting.
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Greetings Leaders! Meetings… Meetings… Meetings. It seems like they take up quite a bit of your day doesn’t it? How do you feel about these meetings? Are they productive or a waste of time? If they are a waste of time, there are techniques you can use to change this.
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Greetings Leaders! To be an effective leader, you have to have balance in your life. Balance is necessary for harmony. There are two perspectives I want to suggest here. The first is Mind – Body – Spirit, and the second is Work – Family – Self.
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Greetings Leaders… I’m sitting here thinking about life. Sometimes it can be rough. There are so many obstacles that get in the way of our dreams, inspirations and happiness. A friend told me yesterday that we come into the world bloody, crying, cold and naked… and life just gets worse after that. We both laughed.
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