Leadership: A Curtsy, A Bow, or A Handshake?

Happy New Year everyone! And a special Happy New Year to our USA southerly continental sister’s country of Brazil for ushering the new year with the inauguration of its first female President, Dilma Rousseff.  Folks, this is leadership news that is more noteworthy than Obama assuming office, and let me tell you why. Anyone care to [...]

3 Easy Steps to Stop the Organizational Stupid

Do you ever wonder if we are in the age of corporate insanity? Have we gotten to the point of no return toward logic and reality? Have we just given in to learned helplessness? Einstein said that the definition of insanity was trying the same thing over an over again and expecting a different result. [...]

Paycheck Leadership: A Heart Attack

[A lonely lit room displays a silent stage] [The BOOM! of a spot light rings out; the light shines upon the stage, a single podium, and a microphone.] [Christa walks out onto the stage, just the small clicks of her shoes can be heard; she walks up to the podium] “A-hem” (Christa taps on the microphone, [...]

Leading Below The Radar

As far as customers are concerned you are the company. This is not a burden, but the core of your job.  You hold in your hands the power to keep customers coming back – perhaps even to make or break the company. ~Unknown Nothing Up My Sleeve… As funds to purchase services have become more [...]

Leaders Gain From The Pain

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward. ~ Henry Ford Getting Back In the Saddle [...]

Leader, Don’t Be A Goalie

Preventing Goals In the game of soccer, the goalie is the person on the team who’s primary objective is to stop goals. To achieve this, goalies get to do things that the other members of the team are not allowed to. These include: Goalies can use their hands to stop a goal. Goalies can position themselves [...]

There’s No “iPhone” in “Team”

The Long Distance Relationship With the rapid increase in technology over the past years leaders are beginning to use email, smart phones, video conferencing, etc as substitutes for actually being “present“ in the office leading their teams. Could it be that the abundance of technology is giving leaders a false sense of “being connected” to their employees that just [...]

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