Leadership

Chief Hugs Officer (Creating A World Of Success – Part 2)

How Dreams & Happiness are Becoming the New Business Imperatives Dateline – Hiawatha, Iowa Among the storefronts of an otherwise unremarkable strip mall, one door carries no sign and its windows display no products. Otherwise indistinguishable from the countless cookie-cutter replicas that dot America’s suburban commercial districts, what makes this mini-mall and this storefront different,

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Now What? (…From the Vault)

Over the last few weeks, I’ve had the privilege to conduct as series of interviews with four amazing leaders. One woman and three men, each the senior-most executives of their respective organizations, offered honest appraisals of their lives, careers and the businesses they’ve built. Although the organizations they lead differ by industry, geography and size,

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Know Your Place: Soul-Crushing, Productivity-Wasting Leadership Mistakes…

If the rule in your office is ‘know your place’: Change the RULE or CHANGE THE LEADER… RIGHT NOW! Leadership is about bringing out the potential of every employee! One of the most common leadership mistakes is systematically restricting employee contributions because they fall outside of the employee’s job description. Bob’s worked here since 2002,

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Leadership in 525,000 Words…

How You Can Take the Lead in Leadership ” The longer the backstory, the worse the deal” Mark Cuban, Entrepreneur If you can’t explain it, If it’s too hard to put into words or If it takes 30 minutes to blurt out your value proposition, Chances are your ideas are undeveloped and Being told no,

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Renegotiate Your Future

Lifetime employment is a thing of the past — it’s gone. So gone in fact, 20-somethings look at you funny when you even mention the concept. Today, our ‘forever-and-ever‘ jobs have been replaced by “what have you done for me lately” or even worse, “…who are you and what do you do around here?” Let’s

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It’s a Puppy-Kicking World…

Dr. Clark Quinn “wants you to join him in a revolution to overthrow the crap that our once proud profession has come to.” Writing to an audience of fellow Training and Development professionals, you might think Dr. Quinn speaks from the fringe, but he expressed his outrage in a book he co-published with the American

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Getting to the Real YOU!

Take the 3-minute Values Alignment Test  Understanding the differences between your values, how your boss acts and what your company says it values is a critical career insight… The following terms are a compilation of the values we’ve assembled from periodicals, assessments and books – which is a fairly broad representation of possible categorizations. TAKE THE TEST

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The New Leadership Challenge (Part 3)

A Sneak Peak at Leadership Research Findings [Missed Part 1? Click here] [Missed Part 2? Click here] This three part series examines the personal, interpersonal and strategic skills required for effective leadership in the age of uncertainly and unrelenting change. Part 1 examined the process of self-discovery that leads to integrity, self-assurance and maturity of

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