Practicing Leadership

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Eleanor Biddulph

Practice makes perfect, right? Well, at least so we are told. I’m not sure about perfection, but usually, practice does lead to improvement. Think about skills you’ve practiced in your life. What were the results? When I was younger, I took German in high school. We had to practice vocabulary nearly every day. As our [...]

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What Did You Learn Today?

Posted on December 31, 2008 by Wendy Diederich

Did you learn something interesting or useful today? What is it? Often, our moods can help us to be in a better state to learn. Greet the day open to endless possibilities, and you’ll be amazed at the things that present themselves to you. At the end of the day, it’s easy to put aside [...]

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Big Stinky Obstacles

Posted on December 30, 2008 by L2L Contributing Author

The challenge for servant leaders is to stay the course when their desire to stay connected with their spiritual nature conflicts with the company rule. Values and beliefs should create the rules by which we govern our lives – not the opposite. Rules should not determine our values and beliefs. All too often, bully management [...]

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Take the Day Off…Really!

Posted on December 30, 2008 by Eleanor Biddulph

Reuters published an article earlier this year about how many people stay “connected” while on vacation. The survey was done in June by Monster.ca (Canada) and the results showed that 53% of 1792 respondents admitted doing some work while on vacation; 27% check email daily and another 17% admitted that they never really stopped working. That [...]

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Leading Tribes in a Flat World

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Eleanor Biddulph

In The World is Flat (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005), author and N.Y. Times columist Thomas Friedman introduced the masses to notion of a borderless world. The way we do business has changed more significantly in the last ten years than perhaps any ten year period in history. Technology has knocked down barriers, or, at [...]

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Your Leadership Kool-Aid

Posted on December 24, 2008 by Tom Schulte

When people are FULLY committed to an ideology, a purpose, a philosophy, or a theme, it is colloquially said that “they drank the Kool-Aid” and now cannot be dissuaded from that concept for any reason.  Although this reference has a tragic origin, “drinking the Kool-Aid” has come to mean an almost blind following to a [...]

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Write it Down!

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Eleanor Biddulph

Did you have a really great idea earlier today?  Do you remember what it was? Did someone at a holiday party tell you about a fabulous new book they just read?  What was the title? Have you recently had a great thought about how to improve a process at work? Have you done anything with [...]

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