May 21, 2012

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11 Time Management Secrets You Can’t Live Without

Early in my career I had some teammates that arrived late to a time-management seminar… The facilitator made them sit in front. If you can empathize with them or if you’re a leader frazzled by everything demanded of you, this list should help. Take a deep breath and begin with the most important truth: 1. [...]

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How to Make a Perfect Decision

Confusion There are seasons in your leadership where you will feel lost. The path forward isn’t clear. Your team is uncertain, distracted, or lost. You search for the perfect decision, but you can’t find it – there are too many unknowns, too much analysis, no way to know for certain… In times like these your [...]

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Book Review: Everyone a Leader

Waiting for Help? If we wait on our identified positional leaders (CEOs, Presidents, etc) to do what needs to be done, we will be waiting a very long time. For decades now, people have been suggesting that we need leaders at every level of every organization – whether its a company or our country, positional [...]

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Give Me 3 Minutes and I’ll Make You Smarter

What Do You Know? Recently a friend of mine hopped on Facebook and asked his friends to recommend a local carpet-cleaning company and a moving company. (There must be a good story there, but that’s not why I bring it up.) Within an hour he had several solid recommendations with one moving company clearly favored [...]

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19 Ways to Keep from Missing What’s Right in Front of You

Right in Front of You It’s a flash of the blindingly obvious… One of those realities you immediately nod and agree with… But it’s something too many leaders and managers take for granted and ignore. When you leave it that way, it devastates your credibility. Simple, Yet Profound A recent commenter said he appreciated the [...]