Articles of Faith: Leadership Slippery Slope

Posted on July 31, 2010 by Tom Schulte

—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. See the whole series here. Published only on Sundays. —————————————————————————– Are you the type of leader that has done regrettable things in your professional career? Have you allowed “poison” to leak into your professional demeanor [...]

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Rebel Leadership – ‘Rebel With a Cause’

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Mandy Russell

Rebel Efforts Pay Off ‘That is the best damn Store entrance I have ever seen.’ That was the day, the day that she knew! She had spent her entire career in a male dominated retail environment, her colleagues and peers all assuming that her ‘Senior Store Manager’ position had been achieved by her ‘close’ relationship [...]

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Leading Right Under Your Nose

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Anil Saxena

The 99th Percentile Each day people strive to: Do their jobs well Get through the day Reach their goals But what do they do better than anyone else?  What does their team, organization, company do so well that no one else could possibly compete? Why don’t we ask the question? In a recent client meeting, [...]

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Send Them to a Movie, Don’t Train Them!

Posted on July 28, 2010 by Anthony Roberts

People love training when it’s entertaining and they enjoy themselves. They like it when the training gives them information that provides hope. Hope that their life will get easier, that the organization will be more successful, that their job security is enhanced, etc. It’s good when you leave a training session fired up and ready [...]

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Managing Politics at Work

Posted on July 27, 2010 by Aryanne Oade

Are office politics zapping your energy? Are they restricting your work flow? Do you wish that more of your time could go to the creative side of your job rather than to managing political agendas at work? What is a professional employee to do? Imagine This Imagine that you work in an environment where you cannot act [...]

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Hey Leader, Bring On Some Tension!

Posted on July 26, 2010 by David Hasenbalg

The Utopian World? It seems that we operate in a world where most people expect to go about their business in an ultra-professional, rational, controlled environment. In this utopian environment, people expect their leaders to give them nothing but calm, “let me work at my own pace”, conflict-free interactions in a workplace where nobody is [...]

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Articles of Faith: Leadership In Action

Posted on July 25, 2010 by Tom Schulte

In Fall 2003, a close friend of mine Rob Henson called me on the telephone and asked if I was interested in a sales position for a company called Maximum Impact. He said that it was a leadership development company founded by Dr. John C. Maxwell that served a corporate audience and that it was a sister-company [...]

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