10 Ways To Make Your Employees Adore You

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Wayne Kehl

Please do not confuse adoration with lovability, or even likability. Effective leaders have a mystique about them that sets them apart from other mortals. They have an ability to garner respect, admiration, reverence, and generally high regard wherever they go. These are the elements of adoration that we will be dealing with in this article. Different [...]

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Hope Actually IS a Strategy (Part 2)

Posted on September 28, 2011 by Christa Dhimo

It took me three months.  Just one quarter.  Only twelve weeks.  I’m back.  My social experiment is over, and my conclusion is: Hope still lives, albeit on a fairly powerful respirator. In my last blog, I shared that it was getting harder to write monthly… (apologizing for the no-post May,) I wrote that: “My shelves [...]

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Obama Jobs Speech: Real Life Leadership Lessons

Posted on September 27, 2011 by Scott Span, MSOD

Real life leadership lesson: Be transparent, congruent, and authentic to yourself and to those you lead! [To Be Clear – I am wearing my organization development (OD) practitioner hat here. This is a non-partisan analysis of a real-life event to highlight what I believe are imperative traits of successful leadership; transparency, congruence, and authenticity!] Leadership Ain’t Easy  After watching Obama’s recent jobs [...]

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On Seeding and Weeding – A Way of Leading

Posted on September 26, 2011 by Hayley Tomazic

Growing your business is both an art and a science. It involves so many moving parts, changing conditions, and threats from all sides that it almost seems like a company is “an actual living organism.” But rather than diving too deep into a super-complex living organism like a bumble bee to explain group and financial dynamics, let’s [...]

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Leaders: What’s Really Important

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Kristi Royse

As a leader, have you settled on what is most important to you? Do you know what makes you and those around you truly happy? I was reading a great article in Success Magazine about Roger Ebert where he shared a quote that really got me thinking; “I believe that if, at the end, according [...]

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Leadership: The $64,000 “Flame”

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Scott Crandall

If someone asked you this: “What is the $64,000 question in leadership?”, how would you answer?  What would you say it is that we are trying to carry out as leaders of our teams?  The answer, in the simplest terms, is this: “Leaders are trying to get every one of their people to perform at [...]

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Top 10 Ways to Be a Bad Leader

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Wayne Kehl

My articles usually focus on how to be a good leader, or perhaps a better leader. In fact, most leadership articles available on the internet or elsewhere focus on the positive elements of leading. Many leadership writers prefer to write about completely positive things and focus on what leaders should do to be recognized as [...]

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