How to Play to Your Strengths

Posted on April 21, 2009 by Kristi Royse

Our peronal strengths are expressed through the activities that we look forward to doing. They are the activities that leave us feeling fulfilled and empowered. They tend to energize us even as we get exhausted doing them. Wouldn’t it be great if we got to play to our strengths all of the time? Or how [...]

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Lead with People and Processes; Follow with Technology

Posted on April 19, 2009 by Scott Archibald

Have you ever heard an executive say that they are going to “lead with technology“?  I heard a senior executive say this once and I didn’t know if he was brilliant or if he was out of his mind.  It turns out that he kind of had the right idea,  but it didn’t really work.  [...]

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Eggshells

Posted on April 17, 2009 by Eleanor Biddulph

As the next few days go by, many people will be cracking eggshells.  For some, it may be to make a breakfast for family; perhaps visiting for the holiday, perhaps while on a family vacation for Spring break.  For others, it may be breaking the shells of those pretty colorful eggs that were left in [...]

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Leadership Lessons from the “Gunny”

Posted on April 16, 2009 by Bryan Stewart

I remember it like it was yesterday – the day I met the “Gunny.” His name is Jorge Sosa. When I was a young Marine infantry officer, I was impacted most by his leadership when he was my Infantry Company Gunnery Sergeant. He was known by all as “Gunny Sosa.” —————————————————————————————- Introducing  The Micro-Training™ Platform Think “University [...]

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Tax Time

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Eleanor Biddulph

Not the kind of taxes that are due on April 15!  That is the noun form of the word.  Dictionary.com provides this definition of the verb form, to tax: to lay a burden on; make serious demands on: i.e., to tax one’s resources. In today’s economy, many people are feeling like their resources are being [...]

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Are You Building Authentic Relationships?

Posted on April 14, 2009 by Kristi Royse

Great business teams are not necessarily top management teams. They can be found in the boardroom, or on the shop floor. But, when a top executive team is great, it has the authority and positional charisma to build authentic relationships. These relationships then set in motion a chain reaction that can transform the performance of [...]

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How to Lead Ugly People

Posted on April 12, 2009 by Tom Schulte

Just the thought of having to be around ugly people is enough to make me cringe. Now, you are going to try to show me how to actually lead them? RUN………………….!!! ————————————————————————– Now before you go assuming that you know what I am talking about, please let me explain what I mean about “how to [...]

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