Leaders: It’s Not All About the Money

It is time that all of us get into the 21st Century about motivation and driving high-performance in the workplace.   Over 20 years of research about what motivates people and teams to perform at their highest levels, have consistently shown that it is not money. What Motivates Us Yes, it’s true.  Money is not a primary motivator for a [...]

3 Steps to Influential Leadership: Step 1 – Allowance

While there are many ideas and theories about what makes up influential leadership, there are three ingredients that are ‘necessary, but not enough.’  They are necessary for influential leadership, but not sufficient.  Of course, there are many more ingredients to cook up influential leadership, but whatever recipe you are using to help improve your leadership [...]

On Leadership, Being Right or Just Making it Right

It took me a couple of years of being a leader to get to the point of maturity where I could readily admit this humble truth about “being right”: It just doesn’t matter who is right (my company or the customer). On Being Right To get to this point, I had to ask myself: Was [...]

Leaders: Are you Building a “Bridge to Nowhere?”

Many people have heard of the infamous “bridge to nowhere”  in Alaska that became a veritable hockey puck in the 2008 U.S. presidential election and occasionally reemerges in the current election cycle. In fact one Republican candidate used the cliché to attack another candidate in the February 22nd debate in Arizona. Most people hear the [...]

Leaders: Who’s Managing Your Social Media?

Companies invest millions of dollars a year on their brand, whether they realize it or not. Everything a company does – from how they engage their customers, to how they recruit employees and how they market their products — are all rolled up in a corporate brand and contribute to people’s perceptions of that brand. [...]

On Leadership, Cheating and Sex Scandals

Have you noticed the disconnect? Everyone thinks they have high ethics and honorable behavior, yet the headlines seem to indicate that our society has big problems in living and leading with honor.  Shocking Headlines GSA, Secret Service, John Edwards, Teachers Cheating! What’s Up, Doc?  Recently, there has been an avalanche of horror stories from government [...]

Next-Gen Leadership: Developing Future Leaders

My doctor recently brought up the topic of leadership in relation to providing guidance to her high school kid. She was curious about developing leadership skills for kids during the crucial years of their school so that they can get selected to the best college. After all, “Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity,” so why can’t we [...]

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