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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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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Leadership Follies: Training Is Not A Cure-All

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Anil Saxena

For many years consultants and experts have tried to convince leaders that training can impact performance. It seems like the problem is no longer that they don’t believe that training is important, but that now those same leaders thing that training is the “cure-all” or “silver-bullet.” “What has made people think that training people will [...]

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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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Got Glue? How Leaders Build Strong Teams

Posted on June 8, 2011 by LaRae Quy

As an FBI counterintelligence agent, developing good information networks around the foreign spies I pursued was the secret to my success. Those networks became part of my team and they became the heart of every successful investigation when we found our mutual spots of value. Why is value so important to good teams? It’s the [...]

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Check-the-Box Leadership

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Delana Mckinsley

Does your leadership style sometimes end up blurting out on you? blurt (blûrt) tr.v. blurt·ed, blurt·ing, blurts To utter suddenly and impulsively Check The Box ~ You went to the courses. ~ You learned about yourself and others. ~ You even brought it back to the team and taught a lunch-and-learn. Voila. All done. Check the box. [...]

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John Wooden’s Winning Principles

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Kristi Royse

I have always been a BIG follower of John Wooden! I have read every book on him and have worked to apply his principles to my business, my relationships, and my life. A Standard of Excellence I recently came across this INCREDIBLE strategy of standards of excellence and code of conduct to find happiness. I now [...]

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