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Leaders, Are You: Tired? Run down? Exhausted? Don’t have energy for important relationships? Can’t hold an idea in your head for more than a moment? If so, you’re not alone. Recently, several leaders from different organizations, with different responsibilities, and personalities have asked me variations on this question: How do you maintain your energy and [...]
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 [...]
“I might have cancer.” Several years ago, just minutes before I would step into a classroom to teach a leadership class, my wife called. She had just left the doctor’s office and discovered what turned out to be a significant tumor. Life is full of twists and turns. Whether a loved one’s illness, an accident [...]
If you pay a visit to your local book store, John Maxwell has nearly an entire shelf of books devoted to various aspects of leadership. The foundation of these many volumes is the subject of today’s book review: The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow. This [...]
There are few books in the self-help genre as widely known as the subject of today’s book review: Dale Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People. While it is a classic, I have to admit that I steered clear of it and did not read this one for many years. I found the title [...]
Photo by cobalt123 Have you ever found yourself intensely frustrated or angry at a team member? Frequently, this happens because we take what they said, did, or didn’t do very personally. Consequently, we start saying to ourselves something like, “How could that little so and so treat me like this!” It is not long before [...]
Recently, I observed two business professionals get locked into a heated exchange that went something like this: A: “I want you to give me cookies.” B: “We don’t give out cookies.” A: “If you don’t give me cookies, I won’t work with you.” B: “We don’t give out cookies. I have repeatedly found it is [...]
Photo by John Morgan Two of the most powerful words in a leader’s vocabulary are also some of the most difficult for many leaders to speak. Last week I wrote about how to ensure we hear the truth. If we commit to hearing the truth, we inevitably discover we screwed up. No leader is perfect [...]
Today’s book review does not feature leadership or management in the title or table of contents. Even so, I personally consider the contents of this book to be among the most critically important skills any leader or manager can learn. The book is Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High by Patterson, Grenny, [...]
