Leadership Follies – Admit It, Your Baby Is Ugly

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Anil Saxena

Leaders often struggle with admitting that their companies have flaws, as well as dealing with failure. How can leaders succeed in growing a strong efficient company if they don’t face their issues and make some changes? They can’t. The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem. Dangerous Things to Do Here are [...]

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How Important Are Informal Leaders?

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Cheryl Dilley

There are many articles out there asking questions like:  Are great leaders born or bred? And there are many answers to this question. I like this quote as an answer: “Leaders born to be bred.” Hierarchy or Not Most of us realize that leadership does not have to come from the top in order to be [...]

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Leadership Follies – Moving Furniture In a Burning House

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Anil Saxena

Do you ever wonder if people running out of a burning house are thinking about rearranging the furniture? Would you think them crazy if they did?   And yet this is what we do so often in business. We run around doing things that don’t matter and really don’t make much sense… We are often [...]

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Leaders: Is Your Hat Teachable?

Posted on January 16, 2012 by Debra Olejownik

We all wear many hats whether we are on our jobs, at home, or participating in extracurricular activities.  Some of us wear one or two hats, while others of us wear multiple hats. Then, there are those unique situations that will cause us to flip from hat to hat several times in one day. “Some [...]

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How To Find Leaders

Posted on December 27, 2011 by John Hall

Over the course of 10 years, I’ve worked with two holding companies at which I have been exposed to a variety of companies, industries, and people. When I think back on all of my experiences, I notice some consistencies that all of these different situations shared when it comes to hiring quality people who would [...]

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On Leadership and Santa Claus, CEO

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Andy Uskavitch

Have you ever run into a leader who had no daily strategy; no plan; no focus; and no idea how to approach getting organized at all? Yeah, me too… Working without a strategy is like setting sail across the Atlantic Ocean with no charts (or GPS) and no idea what your destination looks like, and [...]

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Leadership Lesson from Captain Picard

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Bryan Moore

Leadership lessons come from all sorts of different places.  Persons, events, articles, conversations, quotes, scriptures. Some intended as motivational and inspirational, some happenstance and epiphanic. As a fan of the sci-fi genre, I have spent too much time traveling “where no person has gone before.” While those hours at first blush may seem like time [...]

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