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March 13, 2017
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4 Tips for Managing Millennials

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On Leadership and The Attitudes for Success

Attitudes are the very essence of a person’s relative success or failure on a human relationship basis. In most cases, ...
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3 Traits Leaders Need to Shape a High-Performance Culture

Some businesses focus on creating a culture of fun, so leaders fill break rooms with kegs and fruit snacks. Others ...
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How to Easily Spread Leadership Love

Thanks to you, our readers, this Linked 2 Leadership Blogazine continues to provide excellent content in the areas of Leadership ...
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5 Leadership Lessons During the Government Shutdown

What do you think about the US Federal Government shut down? Is this process fair to everyone? Is this an ...
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On Leadership and Balancing Intensity with Gentleness

Dr. Seuss called life “a great balancing act” in his book, Oh, The Places You’ll Go. And balance is a ...
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On Leadership, Commitment and Employee Engagement

A frequent complaint from supervisors is that an employee or team member should be doing something…but that they are not. ...
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Leadership Experience: Where Do Theory and Reality Meet?

I continue to read and learn from various articles, blogs and books on the subject of leadership. There really is ...
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On Leadership and Making Difficult Decisions

Decision making skills are one of the most important skills required from a leader. Leaders are constantly making decisions on ...
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Leading with Command: The Craft of Presence over Pushiness

Remember when you were a little kid and you knew exactly how you wanted things to get done? Amidst all ...
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Leaders – Don't Give In

New employee orientation (NEO), or onboarding, is one of the most critical aspects of a new hire’s beginning.  But to ...
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Leadership Superhero: Is There Such a Thing?

When we hear the word Superhero we think of the fictional comic book, cartoon and movie creations.  These characters are ...
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Leaders: 5 Best Practices For Increasing Employee Retention

Hey leaders, what employee retention strategies do you use to engage and retain employees? Statistics from research done by the labor ...
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Why Women Need to Be Two-Faced in Business to Get Ahead

My  husband came home from work the other day looking stressed.  When I asked what was wrong, he described a ...
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Why Parenting Is the Best Leadership Training

Being a dad is way harder than being an effective leader at work. After all, you don’t get to pick ...
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Organizational Health: The Optimal Leadership Diet

As much as a well-maintained human body is more apt to produce great physical results, a well-fed and rested leader ...
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Your Leadership Toolkit: The Top 3 Leadership Qualities

Most leaders possess a number of great qualities that make them an effective leader. They keep and use tools like ...
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5 Ways Leaders Foster Innovation

Leadership innovation happens all around us. As technology and tools improve exponentially over time, the ways that dreams come true ...
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Leaders: Opening a Window to the Unknown You

What did you see the last time you looked in the mirror? Were you surprised by (yet another!) new wrinkle? ...
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On Leadership and Overcoming a Crisis

Make no mistake about it, there will be moments when a crisis strikes. Life has a way of making sure ...
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On Leadership, Social Media and Building Brands

I recently participated in a webinar on HR.com that discussed how important it is for employees to be aware of ...
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Results vs. Relationships – Finding Your Balance on the Leadership Seesaw

As a child, riding a seesaw was fun, wasn’t it? Well, except when you didn’t have equal weight on both ...
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Learning How to Be a Thought Leader

Remember the last time you attended a conference and saw a really great speaker knock it out of the park? ...
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5 Questions To Become a Better Leader

Leading a group of people is not an easy endeavor. There are so many responsibilities, duties, and things to remember. And ...
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Leaders: Are You Serving Wine In The Office?

A while back the following question was asked by one of my team members who had resigned and I was trying to retain ...
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Anatomy of a Proper L2L Discussion

Have you ever gone to a group discussion on LinkedIn and been dismayed at the lack of true discussion? And ...
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How to Be a Legendary Leader in 3 Steps

It's no secret that employee recognition is an important factor in worker morale. After all, management may make the big ...
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The Spiritual Leader’s Task to Maintain the Dream

The task of the spiritual leader is to serve others in the best and worst of times. Such a leader ...
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The Essence of Life and Leadership

“Emotions transform energy; energy creates movement; movement is change; and change is the essence of life.”    ~Darren Weissman  Did ...
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Leadership Rocks

I’d much prefer to be led by a leader who loves rock ‘n roll than one who doesn’t.   A ...
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Characteristics of a Good Leader Infographic

Characteristics of a Good Leader See more on Characteristics of a Good Leader here.
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Leading Colorblind – The Strength of Belief

Leading people when you have "belief" as one of your top strengths makes you stand out in any environment. It ...
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Articles of Faith: My Seemingly Schizophrenic God

[vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/22966706 w=468&h=351] 12Stone Church - "In The Beginning" with Pastor Kevin Meyers This year I embarked on probably the ...
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Workplace Bullying…A Leadership Tragedy

Many studies now show that workplace bullying is a very real, all-too-common and incredibly harmful practice in workplaces world-wide. Shocking ...
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Wishy-Washy Leadership! How To Tell If You're Too Inclusive

Today, many leaders are suffering from too inclusive of a leadership style. They look to their team to vote on ...
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On Leadership and Ownership

In a conversation the other day someone asked a question in a “by the way” fashion. The question was this: ...
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Three "I"s for Team Leadership

You need more than your own two eyes to be great.In fact, there are three very important "I"s that are ...
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Leadership Nostalgia: The Perils of Leading in the Past

Are we leading organizations, ministries, groups or teams as though we are living in 1990 – or worse yet, 1950? ...
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On Leadership and Creating the Perfect Messaging

Effective leadership means that your vision, mission, and shared goals are clear for everyone involved. There is no room for ...
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How to Avoid Two Dangerous Traps in Leadership – Listen and Engage

We often read or hear in the media about leaders whose lack of courage reaped painful consequences. But these “spectacular” ...
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On Leadership, Global Events and Your Local Business

As a leader, you must continually understand that the world is getting smaller and global events and issues can now ...
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On Leadership, Workshops and Organizational Health

There are many ways to provide continuing education for your employees, sharpen their skills, and keep them immersed in new ...
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The Five Key Benefits of Leading the Learning

After 25 plus years developing and facilitating training for clients in a wide variety of industries large and small,  a ...
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Hey Leaders: X Marks the Spot…or Does It?

Recently I have been reading a lot of business best sellers, both current and classic (and while I would argue ...
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On Leadership and Vulnerability

For some reason, people in leadership roles have this idea that they have to be impervious – that showing emotion, ...
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On Leadership, Teamwork and Following a Common Vision

A team isn't a few people that just work on the same thing together. A team is a group that ...
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Leadership Lesson: Do You Hear Me?

Do you hear me?  Are you listening? Many people use these two questions interchangeably, but they’re two significantly different questions.  ...
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On Leadership, Loyalty and Listening to Your Customers

When it comes to leadership, every leader needs to understand that they are on the front lines with everyone looking ...
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The Arranger: Making the Impossible Possible

The Office Juggler How often have you longed for an extra arm to help you get everything done? Or for ...
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The Seven Pillars of Transparent Leadership

The need for transparency in society is at an all-time high. Trust and transparency are crucial elements to every leader. ...
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Articles of Faith: On Spiritual Leaders and Their Call to Love

Spiritual leaders insist that people and relationships precede structures and tasks. This implies leaders need to think positively of others, ...
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Organizational Health: Curing Crippling Leadership Behaviors

Poor leadership behaviors can cripple the very health of your organization and the development of your future leaders. Such crippling ...
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The Power of Latino Leadership, History Lessons for Future Leadership

Can Latinos play a role in overcoming many of the challenges affecting our society? Can the rich, festive and collaborative heritage ...
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4 Ways Leaders Build Camaraderie

“Enhancing trust, pride, and camaraderie in the workplace is the central task of effective leadership in today's organizations." ~ Michael ...
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Leaders and Difficult Decisions: The Syrian Crisis Scenarios?

Hard choices come with the job of a leader. Imagine almost 1 million Americans dying in a modern American civil ...
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On Leadership, Generations and Social Media Policy

These days, almost every orientation handbook has it: the dreaded social media policy. Does your company have a social media policy ...
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On Leadership and Leading in the Present Moment

“We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of now”  ~ Martin Luther King ...
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Articles of Faith: The Christian Humanist Epidemic

—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
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Lost in Translation: How Being Uncomfortable Can Improve Your Communication

Picture yourself exploring a foreign land when a hotel employee runs to you with a worried look on his face ...
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Reaction or Reflection – A Leadership Question

Recently I was watching the classic movie, Get Shorty. This 1995 picture features an intriguing character, Chili Palmer (played by ...
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5 Things to Discuss Before Deciding on a Partnership

Whether your business is just starting out or currently booming, the idea of a partnership may have crossed your mind ...
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How Leaders Can Create a Culture of Feedback

Creating a culture of feedback is vital to any organization. Giving and receiving feedback is something every leader should be ...
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On Leadership and Living a Below Average Life

His mother dropped out in the 3rd grade and then married at age 13. When he was 18, his parents ...
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Escape: How To Get Out of Your Comfort Zone

[youtube=http://youtu.be/_ccVu992CYE] Watching Steve McQueen jump over a high wood fence on a motorcycle in the 1963 classic film The Great Escape ...
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On Leadership, Sherlock Holmes and The Analytical Leader

Being Holmes Known particularly for his shrewd logical reasoning, Detective Sherlock Holmes most certainly possesses a strength both envied and ...
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Hey Leaders: People Are People

It’s important to see that people are people. Sounds like an easy concept, doesn’t it? But it’s not! On Leadership ...
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On Leadership, Control and Moving Beyond the Struggle

I don’t know about you, but I know too many people who are struggling right now. People who are working ...
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On Leadership and The Lifecycle of Mentoring

Mentoring is an enormously effective and an irreplaceable way to grow people, teams, and organizational health.  If done poorly, it ...
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Edward Snowden: Courageous Leader, or Lack of Morals and Accountability?

As a former POW in the camps of North Vietnam, I think my comrades and I saw the purest example ...
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On Leadership, Humility and Authentic Spiritual Leadership

  Corruption, greed, and addiction to power and control over others ooze from the pseudo-leadership of so many contemporary leaders. ...
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Developing Employees – The Role of Personality

One day when I was working as Learning & Development Manager in a German corporation, an executive approached me to ...
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Leading in HR: The Power of a Professional Conduct Policy

There’s not much in the way of employee behavior that would surprise an experienced Human Resource Manager. What is far ...
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On Leaders and Accountability (Part 6): How to Take Action When Expectations Aren’t Met

Here’s the scene. Joe Staff Member is on your team, and you have done all of the right things to ...
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Managing Up by Speaking Up

Managing your job and career can be difficult at times. And one of the biggest difficulties for many is managing ...
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Gian = Leadership: Timeless Advice on Competitive Advantage

In his book, The Art of War for Executives, author Donald G. Krause provides interpretations of author Sun Tzu’s writings from ...
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To Mentor or Not to Mentor, That is the Question

Albert Einstein once said, "Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means." If one agrees ...
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The Simple Wisdom of the Lens Grinder

The Lens Grinder: Guiding  You  on the  Noble  Journey to Becoming the Person You were Meant to Be Big "L" ...
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Leadership Perspective: To Ride the Wave, or Lead the Wave

Let’s venture into a world where plans constantly change. In this place, nothing goes the way it should. Every potential ...
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The 5 Admired Female Business Leaders of the Past Year

As gender equality becomes more of a priority in world society, more women are becoming prominent business leaders. Women prove ...
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L2L Book Review: "Leaders Open Doors"

Using his own personal experience, author and veteran consultant Bill Treasurer wrote "Leaders Open Doors" to encourage leaders to accept ...
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On Leadership, Positivity and Notions of Power

What makes for a “powerful” leader? Is it authority, position, or seniority? Could it also be personal gravitas in the ...
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Lead like Water

Think of water for a second. What is your first impression when you come across this term? >>> Weak? Common? ...
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35 Fun and Affordable Team Appreciation Ideas

"35 Fun and Affordable Team Appreciation Ideas" is now available as FREE L2L Premium Content! As an effective leader, you are ...
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On Character, Compassion and The Heart of a Leader

The heart has been written about thousands, if not millions, of times over the years. We are fascinated by the ...
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Technical Foul: Leadership Lessons from the Rutgers Basketball Scandal

What leadership lessons can we learn from the recent firing of Rutgers coach Mike Rice? If you have been following ...
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Resolving Work Conflicts: The 7 Step Solution

Problems exist for everyone. This is because we live in an imperfect world designed to keep throwing wrenches in our ...
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On Leaders and Accountability (Part 5): 6 Tips to Celebrating the Big Payoff

Think about this scenario: A momentous payoff has just occurred in your team as you've applied the guidance in this ongoing series ...
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Servant Leadership: Authenticity and the Spiritual Journey

Leading with a Noble Purpose and pursuing a life of service to others only becomes authentic, dynamic and revitalizing when ...
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Effective Leadership: Just Do It

The Anticipation You sit on the edge of your seat, foot tapping, hands clenched, eyes shifting around the room, just ...
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Are You A Sleep Sick Leader

An important aspect that helps lower our stress levels is getting regular, restful sleep. Sadly, many leaders experience periods of inadequate ...
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7 Ways Leaders Can Hack Into Their Own Life: Tips From A Former FBI Counterintelligence Agent

As an FBI undercover and counterintelligence agent, I spent twenty-four years investigating people. But the most important life I ever ...
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Leading Customer Service

Good customer service doesn’t begin nor end with the customer.   It begins with the leader and, well, I don’t ...
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When Businesses Grow But Leaders Don’t: Become a Conductor

Have you ever thought of an organizational leader being a conductor of an orchestra? Or if you prefer, any type ...
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Secrets of Succession Planning: Don't Hide Your Talent

If you are in an organization, it is wise to understand that the people you have on board are the ...
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Leaders: Treat Them Like Adults and Watch What Happens

What is it about management that turns some good managers into nannies? Sometimes the role of a manager or team ...
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The Leadership Comb-Over: Dealing with Denial

Here is a leadership challenge for anyone who leads people: Step 1: A Deeper Look Take a look in the ...
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Articles of Faith: The Gifted Leader

Know Thyself —————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from ...
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Email Etiquette (Netiquette)

It's no secret that email has completely changed the way we communicate. It's an immediate and convenient tool. One click ...
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Preparing For Your Next Job

Years ago, I read an article that advised the reader to begin the search for their next job as soon ...
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Goal Setting

I like to separate goal setting into two distinct categories; long-term and short-term. Long term goals are things that you ...
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Webinars as an Effective Training Tool

Technology in Training The issue of distance, time, and availability has always existed and quite possibly prevented people from attending ...
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Be the Change You Wish to See

Mahatma Gandhi said this: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." This directly applies to ...
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How Are You Communicating?

Take a minute to think about how you communicate, and the results you achieve. I’m often surprised at how people ...
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Hug Your People!

What? And break every rule in the book? Okay... so I don't mean an actual hug! I mean something that ...
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Values Intelligence – Online Values Sorting

Linked 2 Leadership is introducing a new online tool to help our L2L community become better leaders. It is called the Values ...
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Leadership Looking for Balls—Crystal and Otherwise

The goal of this blog topic—Future Leadership Issues, in the Linked 2 Leadership constellation of conversation, is to uncover future ...
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The Science of Leadership Collaboration

Working in the Lab From the late 80's until the mid 90's, I would go into my polymer resin compounding ...
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Trust in Networking

In a recent post on the MSN Career site, Eve Tahmincioglu, MSNBC.com careers contributor, tells us to beware of social ...
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L2L Blogger Info

Your Recipe for Success! So, you wanna' be a leadership blogger... Can you create stimulating conversations? Can you speak from ...
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Leaders: How to Deal with Control Freaks

Haven’t we all come across control freaks in our lives at one time or another? If you say that you ...
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Wake Up! Leaders are Dreamers

Risky Dreams  “The limitations you are willing to accept determine the boundaries of your existence.” ~ Erwin McManus, Wide Awake As ...
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On Leaders and Accountability (Part 4): How Mentoring and Coaching Builds Trust

In part 3 on accountability, we talked about the importance of clarity. This is about making sure that people are clear ...
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On Leadership, Stress and Maintaining Vision

The profound and rapid changes in modern life challenge leaders to constantly change and be creative in responding to the ...
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Leaders: 6 Steps to Use a Positive Attitude to Strengthen Your Resilience

A couple of months ago a good friend suffered a major heart attack. While in the emergency room, he had ...
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Finding Your Leadership Secret Sauce

Authentic leaders inspire us.  They build strong teams with complimentary skill sets. They drive high levels of trust and commitment ...
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The More You Know, the More Likely You Are to Be Hired

The best consultants — and the ones who draw the most business — are conversationalists. We all know people like ...
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Emotional Intelligence: The Leadership Difference-Maker

A true story: In March 2013 Susanna Rohm’s seemingly-healthy two month old baby had stopped breathing causing mom to go ...
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10 Steps to Create a Killer Succession Plan

As a matter of age and evolution, every 10 to 20 years or so almost every business is forced to ...
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Leaders: The Art of Giving Feedback

Giving feedback is a tricky thing to master. No matter which position we hold in our workplace, we will need ...
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Leadership In At The Deep End

A great deal of my work is with so-called ‘experienced’ managers. The use of the word experience in this context ...
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A Leader and a List Lover

As human beings, we all have natural strengths, and we all have areas where we lack in skill. And most ...
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Communication Breakdown: Are You Thinking About Your Audience?

Over the course of my career many leaders have lamented this: “Little I say seems to be resonating!?!?” Although this ...
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Changing Corporate Culture To Enable Women’s Success

If you haven’t been living under a rock, you’ve been hearing the recent debate about barriers to women’s career success. ...
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Defeating the Fear Monster! Part 2

In my last article, Defeating the Fear Monster! Part 1, I listed the fears that make up what Jim Haudan, ...
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Leadership Follies – Doing is Not Developing

Do you wonder why the folks that report to you rely on you to solve their problems?  Probably because you ...
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Hey Leader: Whose Expectations Are You Trying to Meet?

Sometimes, a question can strike you with such clarity that it remains with you for life. The following question was posed ...
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At a Loss With the Boss

One of the toughest adjustments new managers have to make is managing their transition from specialist or expert operator to ...
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Top 5 Most Important Leadership Traits

Whether you are responsible for a thousand employees or just starting an online business with a few friends, you need ...
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Hey Leaders: Are You Anti-Fragile?

I am just in the beginning pages of a book that I know I will find to be fascinating, Anti-Fragile: ...
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On Leaders and Accountability (Part 3): Cheating Scandal at Harvard and Clarifying Expectations

The Feb 1, 2013 revelation that more than half of the participants in the “Government 1310: ‘Introduction to Congress’” class at ...
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Leaders: The Importance of Rewarding Your Employees Regularly

Anyone who has built a successful business knows that at the core of a well-run company is a good workforce. ...
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Leadership Guidance: As Parents and Mentors

Leadership points to ponder for teenagers are just as relevant to adults, especially new leaders, viewed via a father's letter ...
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Hey Leader: You Are A Role Model

The media had generally ignored the personal lives of athletes up until the 1990’s. This is when athletes began having ...
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Leadership Formula: Learn, Connect, Influence

Over the past four years I have analyzed people and processes to develop a better leadership model. This leadership training ...
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Your Leadership Quotient

During my 40-year career as a senior manager in the general insurance industry in Canada, I was often confronted and ...
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8 Steps to Help Teams Master the Waves of Change

Helping your team thrive during change takes a plan that is certain and reliable. After all, change is difficult enough, ...
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Middle School Leadership Lesson: I TOLD YOU SO!

Wisdom not heeded is wasted. Often times we seek advice or "wisdom" from others, but we don't take that advice ...
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Articles of Faith: Who Do They Say that You Are?

—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
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It’s Lonely at the Top – 4 Ways to Help Employees Make the Step Change to Leader

In a recent National Post article Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, where shown riding the subway with the ...
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On Leadership, Reality and Monday Morning Quarterbacking

DATELINE: FEBRUARY 3, 2013 | ATLANTA, GEORGIA USA | SUPER BOWL SUNDAY So, it's the day of the big game! ...
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Creative Leadership: Discover New Training Games

The brilliant thing about leadership is that it's creativity is only limited by the means in which it's lived out ...
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How to Manage Conflicts the Emotionally Intelligent Way

Conflicts are present in our lives no matter whether we are at work or home or in a volunteer position. ...
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Authentic Leadership: Living and Leading Outside-the-Box

I have worked for a long time only to find too many people with little passion for change. They simply ...
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Help! How Do I Lead In a Land of Conflict?

In today’s workforce, members of an organization and team come in different flavors. Today’s workforce is not only diverse ethnically, ...
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3 Great Ways to Scare Off Potential Employees

Here are three sure fire ways to not only lose the people you have but also scare off any great ...
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Leaders: How to Dig Deep and Treasure Your Trials

As a leader, are you going (or have you been) through tough times? If so, it may be time to ...
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On Leadership and Handling Difficult Life Challenges

My life has been filled with very difficult challenges. Some of them could be used to excuse myself from being ...
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On Leadership, Growth and Doing it Anyway

Do you know that song by Martina McBride titled "Anyway?"   In the very first verse of the song she ...
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On Inspiring Future Leaders

I have observed that work environments are distinctly different from those of a learning environments. And the difference is leadership. ...
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On Leadership, Lying and Breaking The Honor Code

When a large, trusted and well-established institution gets caught in a public lie, the entire code of honor is at ...
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On Leadership, Soaring and Embracing the Power of Belief

A while back I was in Oshkosh, WI attending the 2012 AirVenture event, a week-long airshow and exposition of experimental ...
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On Leadership and The Politics of Onions

There's an interesting dynamic taking place in India right now. It's a lesson about creating political change, but it also ...
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On Leadership and Knowing Your Audience

Imagine this in your current role: You have taken a position on an issue that really matters to you. And ...
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On Leadership, Change and Transition

Change is never easy. Change is a bumpy process. Change is uncomfortable. And it create problems. But why is change so hard?  ...
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On Leadership and Counting Carrots

“When you blame others, you give up your power to change.” ~ Dr. Robert Anthony So What's Your Carrot? Do ...
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Putting You First: Leading Yourself

One of the toughest lessons a leader must learn is this: You must learn to lead yourself before you lead ...
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Leading Clean: Killing Your Conflict Phobia

Afraid of conflicts? Always getting in conflicts and don’t know what to do? Are you avoiding conflicts because of the ...
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Winner Winner Chicken Dinner

If you began reading this article because you like to eat fried chicken, or because you enjoy gambling, then I must apologize. ...
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Leading Yourself to Likeability

Yes! You Can Get Anyone To Like You. Sally Field is probably best known for her acceptance speech for Best ...
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Is Friendship a Leadership Quality?

If you had asked me ten years ago if “friendship” is a leadership quality, I doubt I would have given ...
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Economic Leadership Development: Is O.D. the Rx?

To jump-start the US economy, is an “Organizational Development Intervention" needed? A recent US Senate hearing on the recruitment and ...
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Ethics, Leadership, and the Alamo: Where's Your Line in the Sand?

The story of the Alamo has always captured my attention, both as a kid and as an adult. I don’t ...
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Little Johnny in the Workplace

Little Johnny in the Workplace Almost every kid gets a trophy these days And it doesn't even matter if they ...
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On Leadership and The "Jedi Generation"

A Long time ago…… The “Jedi Generation” are people defined not by age, but by commonality in belief and behaviour; ...
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Leadership: The 8 Qualities Test

No matter what you read on the subject of leadership, the question of what qualities a leader should have usually ...
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On Leadership and the Promise of Coaching

In the last twenty years a new profession of coaching burst upon the scene. From the local workout gym to ...
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How To Deal With Water Cooler Talk

Water cooler talks are those nasty, backstabbing, grumble sessions that employees like to have from time to time at work. ...
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Leadership Ripple Effect

Do you ever think about how the decisions you make as a leader affect others? Do you ever consider the far-reaching effects ...
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Gaining Influence as a Leader

So, you decide that you want to build additional influence at work. What's one to do? Maybe you want to ...
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The Real Thing: 9 Ways Successful People Build Rapport

Recall a time when you are the outsider—trying to find real ways to connect with the crowd, feeling different, and ...
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Articles of Faith: Leading through Challenges

—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
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Leaders: Stepping Up Your Game? Learn From Winners!

I help organizations improve their "game," and I love my job. In fact, my hobby is reading and learning about ...
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How To Lead Generation "Y"

The members of the demographic, commonly known as Generation “Y” were born between the years 1981 and 1994, which makes ...
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Guerrillas in the Midst

Are you working with guerrillas in your midst? Business is descending into all those clichés again: "dog eat dog", "rat race", "law ...
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Leadership Clarity: Can They See You Now?

Though it seems a clichéd notion improving your company culture starts at the top, you have to lead by example. ...
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Leaders: Take Your Business Back!

I often hear from managers that employees have more power than their bosses. Studies have shown that the majority of workers ...
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Leadership: A Big Fat Who Cares?

In recent years, some employees have felt the hard and harsh blows dealt by their leaders as their employment positions ...
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Leadership in 6 Key Words

As I read the many great posts on this blogazine (and elsewhere), it seems we often take for granted a ...
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What Leaders Can Learn from Lt. Columbo

The recent passing of the actor Peter Falk (age 83) reminded me of a useful technique for leadership effectiveness, which I ...
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The Silent Language of Leaders

Communication is difficult. Sometimes the message you intend to get across is understood by others, but many times it is ...
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Take Me To Your Leader

Okay. How many of you just read the title of this blogacle sounding like an alien or a robot?  C’mon, ...
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Leaders: Are You Asking the Right Questions?

Great Results Begin With Great Questions ~ Joseph S Edwards Do good managers do the work for their staff ? ...
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Your Best Single Piece of Leadership Advice

What is the single most important advice you would offer a person new to leadership? Big Question How would you ...
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6 Ways To Build Your Strategic Network

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[See  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Office – Part 1 Denial] Let’s face it; we didn’t expect ...
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Are You a Servant Leader or a Leadership Warrior?

I have recently called upon the leaders of the world to start a LEADERSHIP REVOLUTION (Post 1) (Post 2). In ...
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Another Nail in the Leadership Ethics Coffin?

Once again the personal ethics of a national leader is brought into question. Leaders are legendary for moral lapses and ...
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Recently I was reading yet another news story of how radically the world had changed in past few years and ...
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We admire people with inner strength—we make them our heroes and call them by names like John Wayne. Heroes don’t ...
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The Mind of a Servant Leader

A new leadership idea was introduced not too long ago that is impacting the world in which we live and ...
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Leadership Hybrid Theory: Dawn of the "Leadager"

It’s the 21st century and, being an ‘evolved species’, we’ve come to recognise the need for progressive adaptation in response ...
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Every Revolution Needs A Cause

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Handling Conflict at Work: The Leader’s Role

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The Time is Now for Women to Lead

Now, more than ever, leadership takes all kinds. We need all kinds of leaders in all kinds of roles. We ...
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I have dedicated the last decade of my life to the proposition that there are no bad employees…just bad leaders. ...
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Leaders: 8 Ways To Spot Lying Lips

Federal agents are trained to read others and uncover what is hidden. They seize on words, language inconsistencies, and other ...
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Hope Actually IS a Strategy

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Next-Gen Leadership: Talkin’ ‘Bout My Generation

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Is Training Helping or Hurting Your Success?

I have been called a “purist” for believing that the training / learning function within every company is vital to the ...
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Social Loafing – People Don't Add Up

The term “social loafing” is synonymous with social psychology. And this term is equally apt, if not more, to the corporate ...
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Got Glue? How Leaders Build Strong Teams

As an FBI counterintelligence agent, developing good information networks around the foreign spies I pursued was the secret to my ...
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What I Learned About Courage from a Night in Jail

It wasn’t supposed to start this way. London was supposed to be the launching point of my Global Courage Tour. ...
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Getting Leadership Direction: 3 Reliable Sources

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Leading From the Dark Side: 4 Dangerous Leadership Styles

"Luke, Stay Away from the Dark Side . . ." Have you heard of these leaders: Adolph Hitler,  Jim Jones,  Thomas Jefferson,  Donald ...
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On Leadership and Memorial Day

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Go Back, To Go Forward

“Take a step back to go forward? Are you nuts?” Well . . . that’s beside the point. But I ...
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Leaders: Who Needs Wisdom?

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The Three Hardest Words for Leaders to Say

As leaders, we all know the importance of setting a good example. Posner and Kouzes, in The Leadership Challenge, refer ...
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LeaderBrief Q&A: Core Leadership Skills

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Finding the Leader Within

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Keep an Eye on Your Reputational Risk Radar

No More "Made by Kids!" When my friend Sarah embarked on taking her 13-year-old son Pascal to H&M to do ...
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WANTED: An Un-Corruptible (Servant) Leader

I live and work in Southern California where as of late the newspapers have been full of stories for months ...
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Change Your Values…Tame Your Gremlins

Have you ever found yourself experiencing a challenge or failure that had a déjà vu feeling as if you have ...
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The Leadership Formula for Success

Starting around July every year, training departments begin receiving e-mails and phone calls around the same topic: “Such-and-such course is ...
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Managing Your Time In The Cyber World

There is a lot of talk about time management these days. In fact, in these times when technology is bringing ...
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Leaders: Focus On Questions, Not Answers

As an FBI counterintelligence agent, I spent considerable time learning about the people I was investigating. The more I knew ...
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Your Upcoming Leadership Train Wreck

We have heard “it’s not what you know, it’s who you know.” We have heard this for many years in ...
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Do You Recruit Into Hell?

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Five Things Leaders Need to Know about Innovation

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Barbie Marries The Hulk and We All Hate Our Bodies

Leadership education requires us to really take a deep dive into gender stereotyping. It does not matter if we think ...
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Vaccinating for the Training Virus?

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How to Lead an Adversarial Peer

Have you ever experience an office situation where regular interpersonal discord, or even daily combative behaviour was the order of ...
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Blankity-Blank-Blank Nerves!!

Nerves! Those blankity-blank-blank nerves! Yes, you heard me.  Nerves.  Those darn nerves!  Always around, never a dull moment: “nerves” have ...
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Positive Passion Leads To Success

“Genuine leaders never pursue or expect adulation or “star” status. When they receive it, they accept it graciously and move ...
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Leadership: Courage to Know Your Strengths

I recently took part in a mock interview process with some high school seniors. One of the questions I asked ...
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Easter Is For Leaders

Easter is a holiday celebrated each spring in many countries throughout the world. It is a Christian religious celebration based ...
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Slacker Talent: Your Recipe for Disaster

The number of employees that are highly disengaged has doubled since the beginning of 2008. It’s tough enough to make ...
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How To Lead Yourself

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Check-the-Box Leadership

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Harassment…A Leadership Dilemma

The world of business and industry has improved dramatically for women over the past two decades, but we are still ...
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Understanding Real Leadership

Put That Leadership Book Down, It Could Hurt You! From the Mouths of Leaders Spend enough time in leadership roles ...
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If Babies Ruled The World

On April 2, 2011 my daughter gave birth to a bouncing baby girl. I put a photo of the little ...
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Your Leaning Tower of Leadership

What's wrong with this picture? The picture above of the Leaning Tower of Pisa reveals the normally bent-over tower shown ...
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What Makes A Superstar Employee?

The secret to success that all great employers have discovered is as simple as, “right person-right job.” When people are ...
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Leaders: 7 Things, Traits, Characteristics and Definitions

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Leadership According to Leroy Jethro Gibbs

Human resource directors who watch the hit television series NCIS must cringe at the leadership style of Leroy Jethro Gibbs. ...
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The Leadership Element in Management

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LeaderBrief Q&A: Greatest Leadership Challenge Today

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Employee Engagement: What Do the Jobs Data Have to Do With It?

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Why do employees stick to stupid? Have you ever noticed that some employees will stay in jobs that they do ...
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As I travel through my life, I have often noticed that dogs have some interesting effects on people. In the ...
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Anybody looking? Can anyone hear us? Good, then let me tell you a secret. Here it is . . . ...
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