Articles of Faith: Faith Heroes in the Marketplace

Posted on April 28, 2012 by Dr. Merlin Switzer

Have you ever wondered to what extent leaders are able to integrate their faith in the market today? When you think about news headlines, it seems like Biblical values are under attack from nearly every direction, especially in the marketplace. Questions of Biblical Proportion  In 2011, I set out to answer these questions: Have Christian [...]

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Leaders: What is Your Legacy?

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Kristi Royse

The San Francisco and Silicon Valley Business Times presented the “2012 Best Places to Work in the Bay Area” this week. The 125 companies ranked in their publication clearly understand that their people are their priority. These exemplary companies foster work environments that attract and retain happy, engaged, and productive employees. “Talent is the engine [...]

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6 Steps to Sustainable Leadership: Maintaining Harmony

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Al Gonzalez

We all play a role in conflict development. And supervisors need to help all team members understand how conflict develops and what we can do to manage it.    This is critical to enabling the team’s ability to maintain harmony, maximize its strengths and consistently exceed expectations. On Leadership and Self-Deception The most influential book I [...]

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Culture Change: Is Failure Self-Fulfilling?

Posted on April 16, 2012 by Scott Crandall

Change. Sometimes, it is refreshing, invigoration, and certainly can do you good! And other times….. well, not so good… Navigating Rough Waters of Change Recently I’ve been speaking with a good client ($1 billion + in revenues) who wanted to reorganize one of their divisions’ sales forces. Since I’d had some experience with this same client [...]

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Why We Fake Authentic Leadership and How to Stop

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Ginny Whitelaw

Authentic leadership may seem like a no-brainer. But is it this simple? We probably think: “Of course we want to BE THIS; we want to FOLLOW THIS; we want NOTHING BUT THIS in leadership. Easy Peasy From works like Kevin Cashman’s Leadership from the Inside Out, or Bill George’s, True North, we’ve had excellent ways to talk [...]

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Leaders: Take a Risk and Help Someone Else

Posted on April 5, 2012 by Lee Ellis

March is always an exciting month in my life. It’s the month that more than 300 former Vietnam POWs who came home in the last two groups at the end of the war.  This year is the 39th anniversary of our release from the communist cells in Hanoi.  Words can’t describe the joy of returning [...]

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Leaders: What the Heck is DISC #2 (Emotions)

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Wayne Kehl

This is the second in a series of blogs in which I will explain the most common personality survey on the market today. In the last issue of “What the Heck is DISC” we described the basic elements of DISC: Dominance, Influencing, Steadiness, and Compliance. In this issue, we want to delve further into the attributes [...]

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