On Leadership, Being Right or Just Making it Right

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Lucas McAlpin

It took me a couple of years of being a leader to get to the point of maturity where I could readily admit this humble truth about “being right”: It just doesn’t matter who is right (my company or the customer). On Being Right To get to this point, I had to ask myself: Was [...]

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Conflict, Daggers, and Punches at Work

Posted on November 3, 2011 by Sylvia Lafair, PhD

Are you ready for the really BIG holiday season moving into high gear?  Are you ready for the hectic effort to push and pull everything and everyone around you up that steep hill to profits from now till the end of the year? More importantly, are you ready for the extra stress, tension, and, you [...]

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Leadership Follies: The Art of Management by Shiny Objects

Posted on September 16, 2011 by Anil Saxena

One of the biggest issues that face many leaders today is the lack of clarity in the direction of their teams and organizations. This is most evident directly after a big change. It is not that team members are not well-meaning or that they don’t try to do the right thing, it is that they [...]

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On Leadership and Learning Executive Presence

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Tom Schulte

As a professional speaker and facilitator of leadership development workshops, I often get the chance to be in front of leaders to help them fine-tune their personal leadership effectiveness in my workshops called “Leadership PowerLabs.”   My goal is to make leaders more powerful in their day-to-day interactions. I get to see how a lot [...]

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Is Friendship a Leadership Quality?

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Jim Hopkins

If you had asked me ten years ago if “friendship” is a leadership quality, I doubt I would have given it more than a second before declaring this: “No!” Friendship is not and should not be part of leadership! I would have added “In fact, being friends with people you work with can often cause [...]

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Take Me To Your Leader

Posted on July 5, 2011 by Andy Uskavitch

Okay. How many of you just read the title of this blogacle sounding like an alien or a robot?  C’mon, I know you did. That “joke” has been around for so long, it’s just become a habit.  Kind of like our own greetings to one another. “Good morning.”  “Morning.”  “Good afternoon.”  “How ya doin?”  We [...]

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Handling Conflict at Work: The Leader’s Role

Posted on June 17, 2011 by Aryanne Oade

Are you having people problems at work? So how does this make you feel? How many of you look forward to participating actively in a conflict at work, confident that the underlying issues will be resolved and progress made? How many of you keenly anticipate situations of conflict and disagreement among the people you lead, confident that positive outcomes will [...]

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