Posted on June 2, 2009 by Kris Krueger
What if you’re wrong?
What if an idea, approach, solution, thought, or answer you have at this very moment is flat out not right? What if the thing you’ve done successfully fifty times before in this exact same situation is not the right solution in THIS situation?
How would you know you are wrong? How would you get another, better solution to [...]
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Posted on May 5, 2009 by Tom Schulte
Answer the question “Are Leaders Born or Are They Made?” the same way you would answer this question: “Are Athletes Born or Are They Made?”
Well, are they born or made? The short answer is “both.”
But is it really? And in what context?
When NBA great Michael Jordan was in elementary school playing with the other kids [...]
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Posted on April 3, 2009 by Kris Krueger
Although admittedly a trite subject, it perhaps can’t hurt to take a look at something that is in the front of many people’s minds this time of year – March Madness. Although tired and menacing to many, sports is often used as a metaphor in the business world. So, since we are in the season, please [...]
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Posted on January 27, 2009 by Kris Krueger
Suffice to say that moving into a management role is sometimes the only way organizations can reward people who are performing well at the individual level. What that means is that often times, people who were good at and enjoyed their individual level role are asked to move into a management role that requires much [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by Kris Krueger
The higher up you rise in an organization, the more likely you are to be given access to information that is not commonly known to everyone else in the organization. This can present a dilemma.
What do you share and what don’t you share?
It’s not as if people don’t know that there is information floating [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2009 by Kris Krueger
As hard as this may be to believe, even though people will tell you that they don’t expect you to be perfect as a leader, they, in fact, do. (If not perfect, then pretty darned close to it!)
Think back to your first supervisor of any kind. Did that person lead perfectly? Or, conversely, did you perhaps [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by Kris Krueger
As someone learning about leadership, you are often asked to describe the characteristics of a good leader and/or the characteristics of a bad leader. A worthwhile exercise perhaps and one that often gets us focused on several important leadership behaviors. As you learn more about great leaders and how they led, however, it quickly becomes [...]
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Posted on January 17, 2009 by Kris Krueger
Regardless of whether or not your company has a formal “open door policy,” most of us have had someone say to us “my door is always open if you want to talk.” As we have moved into positions of authority, we have perhaps even uttered these words to people that report to or work with [...]
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