Dog Days of Leadership

The dog days of summer are typically the hottest, most humid, most uncomfortable days of the season. Usually, the dog days occur in August.  Dog days also refers to a time period that is stagnant due to the heat, and very little progress is made on any projects around the home. As you think about [...]

Leading Through Laughter

Walt Disney once said, “When the subject permits, we let fly with all the satire and gags at our command. Laughter is no enemy to learning.” There’s nothing wrong with humor in leadership.  It’s common to hear leaders say that they won’t be taken seriously if they use humor in their leadership role.  If you [...]

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 [...]

The Best of L2L Blogazine 2009-2010 (Top #7 and 8)

This week L2L is bringing you the Top 10 most popular blog posts over the last year. Enjoy and Share! ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ When A Leader Goes “Rogue” (Top #8) Lets face it, in order for any of us to grow or duplicate our services, products or offerings we will have to work with, train and empower [...]

Leading Right Under Your Nose

The 99th Percentile Each day people strive to: Do their jobs well Get through the day Reach their goals But what do they do better than anyone else?  What does their team, organization, company do so well that no one else could possibly compete? Why don’t we ask the question? In a recent client meeting, [...]