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"%'s?!?" Having spent the past week at various functions and reading about Women in Leadership, largely due to “International Women’s ...
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Lighten Up Or Heavy Up...The Choice Is Yours Have you ever noticed that a lot of people tend to take ...
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There is so much glitz and glamour that comes with that power-word “success.” It says "You’ve made it!" And "From ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
You read every day about the importance of getting involved with Social Media – LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogging…the list ...
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John C. Maxwell defines leadership as influence. He shares; "Leadership is not a noun; not a position; it is a ...
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Has anyone out there never been bullied? Please raise your hand. Then send me an email. I want to know ...
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Leadership Courage... Have you heard this term before? It is one of my favourites from a leadership perspective. It is ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
You Never Miss The Water Until The Well Runs Dry This old proverb shines a very bright light on the ...
Read More The Butterfly Effect of Leadership
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It took 30 years, but the scientific community finally embraced Edward Lorenz’ hypothesis that: A butterfly could flap its wings and ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
It is time to bust open the myth about speed being the winning card for success. Speed is not your ...
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During one of my personal contemplation sessions, I was taken away by the Beatles song “Fool on the Hill” which ...
Read More Silver Classics: L2L Blogazine 2011 Top 7 (#1 of 7)
By L2L Contributing Author |
Silver Classics is the Top 7 L2L posts over the last year. This classic review allows you to enjoy the ...
Read More Silver Classics: L2L Blogazine 2011 Top 7 (#2 of 7)
By L2L Contributing Author |
Silver Classics is the Top 7 L2L posts over the last year. This classic review allows you to enjoy the ...
Read More Silver Classics: L2L Blogazine 2011 Top 7 (#3 of 7)
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Silver Classics is the Top 7 L2L posts over the last year. This classic review allows you to enjoy the ...
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Silver Classics is the Top 7 L2L posts over the last year. This classic review allows you to enjoy the ...
Read More Silver Classics: L2L Blogazine 2011 Top 7 (#5 of 7)
By L2L Contributing Author |
Silver Classics is the Top 7 L2L posts over the last year. This classic review allows you to enjoy the ...
Read More Silver Classics: L2L Blogazine 2011 Top 7 (#6 of 7)
By L2L Contributing Author |
Silver Classics is the Top 7 L2L posts over the last year. This classic review allows you to enjoy the ...
Read More Silver Classics: L2L Blogazine 2011 Top 7 (#7 of 7)
By L2L Contributing Author |
Silver Classics is the Top 7 L2L posts over the last year. This classic review allows you to enjoy the ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
We all have days when we wake and think, ‘I can’t face going to work today!’ You get up, see ...
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There you go... showing up for work...then everything changes... So, there you are...sitting in your boss' office (the founder and president of ...
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We look at other people’s lives and we envy them. They seem to be doing so much better than us. ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
I talk to lots of people who are really dissatisfied with their careers. It seems the numbers of unhappy workers ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
Over the years, I have learned never to assume that a person is what their professional title reflects. What has ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
The Anathema of Bureaucracy: Dealing with its Fate & On Embracing its Inverse According to Wikipedia, the word “bureaucracy” is ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
Face it! Like it or not, you are defined by the decisions you make. Making Decisions Think of successful organizations ...
Read More 3 x 3 Leadership
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It is ironic that at a time when there is such focus on leadership development, an unending supply of leadership ...
Read More The Business of Happiness
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Can you use "happiness" to increase employee’s productivity and their personal engagement to woo customers and increase business? The short answer is ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
When a person “fights with” ambiguity, does that means that they are on the same side, the opposing side, or ...
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Being an HR leader in today’s business environment takes courage, conviction and fortitude. ~ Courage to stand up for initiatives ...
Read More Ask and You Shall Achieve!
By L2L Contributing Author |
Discovering The Central Question of Life, Love and Leadership Great leaders don’t have great answers, they have great questions. But, the ...
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There are two types of people: those who are naturally liked by everyone and those who have to work at ...
Read More Leaders Under Fire: The Crucible Experiences
By L2L Contributing Author |
cru·ci·ble noun \ˈkrü-sə-bəl\ a ceramic or metal container in which metals or other substances may be melted or subjected to very ...
Read More Googleite Leadership
By L2L Contributing Author |
As a leader, are you encumbered by all that is involved in using propietary eponyms? DEFINITION: A brand name or trademark of a ...
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There's an unusual looking building I often walk past in New York at 11 Madison Avenue. And it got me ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
Catching spies and growing a business are not that different. Both rely upon the creation of a good network of ...
Read More Leadership Procrastinationitis
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Is there a prescription treatment for procrastinationitis? This is the "disease" that seemingly permeates people so that every action needs ...
Read More Leadership and The Butterfly Effect
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The Butterfly Effect The Butterfly Effect is a scientific theory that essentially says that a small change at one place ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
While tiptoeing through the tulips of online nice-to-knows, I stumbled upon a time capsule of sorts. Er, wait a second. ...
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Image courtesy of Stefan Suarez Leaders are busy people and are often so focused that they get their needle stuck ...
Read More Leadership Joe
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Who needs you most today? Ask yourself this question. I write this sitting in the emergency room as the sun ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
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"Leadership is influence. Nothing more, nothing less." ~John C. Maxwell We all have the potential to influence people every day. ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
As a leader, have you ever been inspired to create positive change in others or in circumstances? Author Greg Mortenson’s ...
Read More I Believe . . . I'm a Leader
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So, you’re a leader... You’ve reached that impossible pinnacle for most people. You’ve reached a level that most people just ...
Read More Change Leadership
By L2L Contributing Author |
The scene was as interesting as it was tense... The people gathered to view the new process by which decisions ...
Read More Leadership Sabotage: Intentional or Not?
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[Reposted from the L2L Classic Series. May 5, 2010] Do you sabotage people at work? If so, do you do ...
Read More Energy Management
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[Reposted from the L2L Classic Series. April 22, 2009] I'm engaged. Now before the congratulations start pouring in, please note... ...
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Can we really perform multiple tasks simultaneously? We as leaders feel the pressure to do multiple tasks at the same ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
Ask yourself this: Are you a good boss? Or maybe a great boss? Or... might you be just a terrible ...
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Trust is absolutely essential and necessary to leadership. But just how trustworthy are we? And can it be measured or ...
Read More Lead By Example
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Ask yourself this: What kind of examples of leadership do you like to follow or emulate? Are you attracted to ...
Read More On Success, Richard Branson, and the Spark Plug Mindset
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Where others see obstacles, a visionary sees opportunities. They focus on synthesizing the best aspects of different ideas. They stay ...
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Happy New Year everyone! And a special Happy New Year to our USA southerly continental sister’s country of Brazil for ...
Read More Leadership Follies – How You Kill Possibility
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I was recently sitting in a meeting watching an executive give a professional proposal for a new initiative. The presenter, Brenda, did ...
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Leadership is one of the most exciting roles to “wear.” Leading a team of winning sales managers and sales people ...
Read More Articles of Faith: A Crisis of Civility
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Read More How The Boss Found Christmas
By L2L Contributing Author |
How the Boss Found Christmas By George Brymer (with apologies to Dr. Suess) All the workers Down at Who’s Corp. ...
Read More Action Items to Make You Sleep Better
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Newsweek magazine called the opening guitar riff to the Rolling Stones’ (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, the “five notes that ...
Read More Taking Your Lead From Christmas
By L2L Contributing Author |
"I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year." ~ Charles Dickens (1812-1870), English ...
Read More 6 Leadership Lessons from Rudolph
By L2L Contributing Author |
'Tis the season! One annual tradition in my house is gathering to watch Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer. This year, I ...
Read More 7 Strategies for Your Strategies
By L2L Contributing Author |
The Best Laid Plans... "My best strategy last year failed. It was the third one in a row. In each ...
Read More Strong Leaders Move Toward the Unknown
By L2L Contributing Author |
We’ve expected politicians to provide the answers for so long that we’ve forgotten how to dig down and pull ourselves out ...
Read More How to Handle a Workplace Bully
By L2L Contributing Author |
Handling a Workplace Bully: Pay Them Off or Offer Them Coaching? There are more and more reported incidents of workplace ...
Read More Feeling Trapped: Symptoms of Stress!
By L2L Contributing Author |
Is your leadership style creating stress in your organization? If it is then it is costing you and your company ...
Read More Respecting Older Employees
By L2L Contributing Author |
Recently I was in a restaurant and listened to some bickering between waitresses. One of them has worked in the ...
Read More Leadership: Encouraging Innovation
By L2L Contributing Author |
A friend of mine called recently to discuss his business. He wants his employees to assume more ownership for their ...
Read More 10 Ways to Encourage Innovation
By L2L Contributing Author |
I firmly believe it is a mistake of leaders to feel they can force innovation or even create innovative people. ...
Read More You Need a Good Bad Idea
By L2L Contributing Author |
I love a good bad idea…don’t you? The truth is, in a healthy organization, there really are no bad ideas. ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Leaders Think And Contemplate
By L2L Contributing Author |
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Read More Paycheck Leadership: A Heart Attack
By L2L Contributing Author |
[A lonely lit room displays a silent stage] [The BOOM! of a spot light rings out; the light shines upon ...
Read More Leadership Pressure Points
By L2L Contributing Author |
Have you ever gotten to the point of frustration that you just wanted to explode? If you lead people, then ...
Read More The Authentic Leader
By L2L Contributing Author |
Authenticity is one of the greatest gifts you can bring as a conscious leader. By nature I tend to be the ...
Read More Leadership: The Being, Behind The Doing
By L2L Contributing Author |
When you meet someone new, you often talk about what you do. This also happens when you talk with family ...
Read More BAD LEADERS – Ramsey’s Political Rules
By L2L Contributing Author |
With all the interest year-after-year on effective leadership development, it occurs to me that we don’t seem to be getting ...
Read More The Greatest Management Principle You Never Heard Of
By L2L Contributing Author |
I've been in blood banking for over 10 years now and have come to realize that the management principles adopted by ...
Read More On Leadership, Optimism and The Killer Of Dreams
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Pessimism Is The Enemy of Ambition And The Killer Of Dreams Optimism is the faith that leads to ...
Read More Realizing Talent: The Goldmine of Intelligence
By L2L Contributing Author |
Here is the BIG question: Why do we spend endless time, effort, and energy recruiting, training, coaching, mentoring, managing, and ...
Read More Think Before You Speak
By L2L Contributing Author |
"Wise men talk because they have something to say... fools, because they have to say something." ~ Plato Say What ...
Read More Coaching Good People to Excellence
By L2L Contributing Author |
As many companies know, preparing executives for senior leadership roles requires more than verifying their intelligence and experience. If a ...
Read More How Do You Transform A Life?
By L2L Contributing Author |
How do you transform a life? You make one empowered step at a time. During this year I’ve been given ...
Read More Breaking It Down – The Antidote To "IKEA" Leaders
By L2L Contributing Author |
I have a love/hate relationship with IKEA. On the one hand, they sell exceptionally cost-effective furnishings that can often look ...
Read More Your Life Is A Process
By L2L Contributing Author |
I work in ministry and thought my life was set at an early age. This is until I realized something ...
Read More The Gift of Good Leadership
By L2L Contributing Author |
Did you ever get coal in your stocking? Many of us have heard the story of Saint Nicholas who dutifully ...
Read More Developing People: A Key to Eliciting Excellence
By L2L Contributing Author |
As leaders, it is important to understand yourself well. It is also essential to know who you are as a person ...
Read More How to Clear Your Leadership Fog
By L2L Contributing Author |
Imagine this: You are driving down the road of life on Career Highway in your well-oiled professional machine on your ...
Read More 4 Steps to Deciphering Your Firm's Culture
By L2L Contributing Author |
“You can observe a lot if you just watch.” ~Yogi Berra Culture gets blamed for a lot of things. Half ...
Read More Are You In a Leadership Rut or Routine?
By L2L Contributing Author |
Are you in a Leadership Rut or Routine? Ruts and routines are not the same, but they can both be ...
Read More 3 Easy Steps to Stop the Organizational Stupid
By L2L Contributing Author |
Do you ever wonder if we are in the age of corporate insanity? Have we gotten to the point of ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Great Leadership
By L2L Contributing Author |
So, you want to be a great leader...? "Whoever wishes to become great among you shall be your servant;" Mark ...
Read More Ego, Image, and Leadership
By L2L Contributing Author |
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. People who have a nose for what it takes to get ahead are ...
Read More Leadership: Mediocrity and The 75 Per Cent Rule
By L2L Contributing Author |
Mediocrity is the enemy of excellence. And it's expensive, too! Have you ever wondered how much mediocrity is costing you? ...
Read More What Can Newton Teach You About Leadership?
By L2L Contributing Author |
It sometime seems like some people wouldn't understand leadership even if it hit them in the head... So here's some ...
Read More Future Leaders: Leading Our Most Precious
By L2L Contributing Author |
THREE STORIES, ONE POINT. If we want our students to be equipped to lead in the future, we need to provide ...
Read More Authentic Leaders: Putting Our Masks Away
By L2L Contributing Author |
If your house is anything like mine, tucked away somewhere in the attic or the basement is a Halloween box. ...
Read More Where the Focus Goes, the Business Goes
By L2L Contributing Author |
I'll venture to guess that a book narrated by a talking dog named Enzo isn't on your list of go-to ...
Read More Why Leadership Is A Tool
By L2L Contributing Author |
Getting stuff done within an organization requires resources, people, and planning. Sometimes it is easy, and sometimes... not so much. In ...
Read More Leadership Follies – Clearly Speaking
By L2L Contributing Author |
Have you ever been in a business meeting or conference and hear someone in the audience whisper loudly "BINGO!" If ...
Read More Legal Does Not Equal Ethical
By L2L Contributing Author |
You know - MOST people are pretty honest - Again, I say MOST people... For instance, most leaders act in ...
Read More On Leadership, Corruption, and The Empire of the Heart
By L2L Contributing Author |
The United States is more corrupt than Japan, Britain, Australia, Germany, and the Scandinavian nations. According to Transparency International’s Corruption ...
Read More Leaders: Influencing Others By Listening
By L2L Contributing Author |
I was in a small group for a Project Management course exercise this past weekend and noticed something interesting about ...
Read More 7 Steps to (Much) More Effective Meetings
By L2L Contributing Author |
Successful projects and teams require meetings to accomplish important goals and objectives. Busy leaders, however, are typically anti-meeting because of ...
Read More 7 Tips In Leading People Older Than You
By L2L Contributing Author |
In my first management position, I was a 19-year-old college sophomore working full-time. I was leading a small staff of ...
Read More Leaders: 7 Ways Extroverts Can Help Introverts
By L2L Contributing Author |
I write a lot about introversion, because I’m an introvert. Introversion is a personality preference, based on the way a ...
Read More Instilling Pride: A Key to Eliciting Excellence
By L2L Contributing Author |
Eliciting excellence in others is the essence of leadership. One of the most effective means to do this is to instill ...
Read More Getting Projects Completed Successfully
By L2L Contributing Author |
Often times leaders give up on trying to make the team-concept work at their organizations. What they end up doing ...
Read More 7 Ways to Correct Team Members Correctly
By L2L Contributing Author |
As leaders, it is part of our job to make our teams run smoother and get better results by correcting behaviors ...
Read More Leaders: The 24-Hour Rule To Firing People
By L2L Contributing Author |
Why? Why, Why, why, why, why? WHY can’t people get firing someone RIGHT THE FIRST TIME? In the past year, ...
Read More Leadership: Gettin' Stuff Done Without Using Your Hands
By L2L Contributing Author |
"Leadership is getting stuff done without using your hands." A quote similar to this was told to me when I ...
Read More Leadership: A Job Or A Calling?
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leaders are faced with many decisions that often instill fear and indecision. This can lead to them staying on a ...
Read More How to Man Up and Do the Right Thing
By L2L Contributing Author |
The phrase man up is a zinger that’s caught on with women who pride themselves on being strong, irreverent, and ...
Read More On Leadership and The Rolling Stones
By L2L Contributing Author |
I found a copy of Rolling Stone magazine on my kitchen counter today. Although it wasn't mine, I cracked it open because of ...
Read More Plateaus – The Forgotten Opportunity
By L2L Contributing Author |
When we hit a plateau in life, it feels like we’re going nowhere. If we understand how to use plateaus, ...
Read More 10 Unthinkable Lessons For Your Employees
By L2L Contributing Author |
The Top Ten Things You Never Thought You’d Need To Teach Your Employees In a collaborative investigation into workforce readiness, ...
Read More 4 Secrets For A Strong Mind
By L2L Contributing Author |
Mental toughness is an important characteristic in our heroes. The reality is, you and I must also be strong-minded if ...
Read More Articles of Faith: On Leadership and Forgiveness
By L2L Contributing Author |
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Read More Dropping the Leadership F-Bomb
By L2L Contributing Author |
He said this: "...I am a "Jerk." … except, he actually didn't say the word "jerk." This man said the off-color ...
Read More The Leader's Choice: Anger or Happiness
By L2L Contributing Author |
Something I have been saying most of my adult life is, “Anger is wasted energy.” As much as that is ...
Read More 3 Ways to Prepare for the Unknown
By L2L Contributing Author |
After four months of training at the FBI Academy, one of the most important lessons I learned is that moving ...
Read More Leadership: Building a Character of Initiative
By L2L Contributing Author |
Good things happen when we allow people the freedom to do their own thing, and their own thinking. Similarly for ourselves, when we ...
Read More Leading Through Fear
By L2L Contributing Author |
It happens even to the best and most experienced leader – fear. Facing Your Fear It may be a fear ...
Read More What are You Feeding Your Mind?
By L2L Contributing Author |
A CEO I am working with expressed a comment that really got me thinking. He shared, “I don’t get it ...
Read More It Only Takes 8 Minutes
By L2L Contributing Author |
I experienced the most painful thing in my life 5 weeks ago. My grandmother Esmeralda Keane passed away. Aside that ...
Read More 3 Ways to Kill Your Employees
By L2L Contributing Author |
How many ways, leaders? How many ways? How many ways can a leader go through the day and put a ...
Read More Leaders Living Their Choices
By L2L Contributing Author |
As I travel the country training leaders, it still amazes me how many people say the actions of others make them ...
Read More Volunteering Pays
By L2L Contributing Author |
With the recession (you know, the one that’s “over”), volunteers are needed more than ever. If you can't give money, ...
Read More The Secret to Bill Clinton’s Success
By L2L Contributing Author |
What was the secret to Bill Clinton's success? Was he smarter? More talented? No. President Clinton looked the left, looked ...
Read More Brainy and Brittle
By L2L Contributing Author |
I recently re-read the classic Harvard Business Review article by Chris Argyris, entitled: “Teaching Smart People How to Learn,” first ...
Read More Want To Build A Great Team? Lighten Up
By L2L Contributing Author |
If you have ever been part of a great team, you know the sense of pride everyone experienced. Winning wasn’t ...
Read More Feeling Trapped: Stressed Out!
By L2L Contributing Author |
Stress is everywhere! It is like an outbreak hitting everyone. It almost feels like it is contagious and spreading!! ...
Read More Articles of Faith: On Leadership and Obedience
By L2L Contributing Author |
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Read More 3 Leadership Lessons from Genghis Khan
By L2L Contributing Author |
Genghis Khan conquered substantial portions of Central Europe and China to create the largest empire in history. His story is ...
Read More Success Through People…Leading Beyond a Down Economy
By L2L Contributing Author |
Current worldwide economic woes are extremely worrying for a lot of business people...and with good cause. We have seen the ...
Read More Burn Your Boats – When Leaders Go "All In"
By L2L Contributing Author |
When Alexander the Great arrived on the shores of Persia, his army was overwhelmingly outnumbered. The odds against them were ...
Read More Leadership: The Difference Between Quilts and Puzzles
By L2L Contributing Author |
A recent visit to a quilt show at a regional festival reminded me of an old saying “when life throws ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Leading Lady of Hollywood
By L2L Contributing Author |
I recently was privileged to see a living legend of Hollywood perform in Atlanta, Georgia at the Ferst Center at Georgia Tech. ...
Read More Are You Living to Your Potential?
By L2L Contributing Author |
Of all the worthy pursuits in life, to me this is the most important. Every reward is attained in pursuit ...
Read More Be on the Creep Alert: Listen to Your Intuition
By L2L Contributing Author |
The gift of intuition helps to spot creepy behavior. We just need to notice the warning signals. A creep is ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
Have you ever wondered: "If success is a journey, have I taken a detour? Is your intention to be a success? ...
Read More 3 Ways to Use Intuition to Predict Your Behavior
By L2L Contributing Author |
Which is easier—predicting the stock market or your own behavior? Both require skills that take time to develop. The stock ...
Read More Leadership Strengths vs. Weaknesses: The Silly Debate
By L2L Contributing Author |
Which one do you choose to do: Focus on Strengths, or Focus on Weaknesses? ...And while you're at it, answer ...
Read More 9 Interview Tips Leaders Use For Picking Winners
By L2L Contributing Author |
Are you a pretty smart manager? I bet that you probably are! But, when hiring new employees for your team, ...
Read More Steps to Being a Leadership Storyteller
By L2L Contributing Author |
How do leaders influence people to adopt their point of view? They make change happen by adopting the language of ...
Read More Confessions of a Leadership Coach
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Do we live in a professional world of magical thinking? Consider this: Our leaders reduce complex issues into sound bites ...
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By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More How To Be a Tone-Deaf Leader
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leaders often earn their positions. Some get their positions of authority and power through circumstance. Others have a birthright that ...
Read More How To Become A Leadership Guru
By L2L Contributing Author |
Did you know that every influential leader is a situational leadership theory guru? Did you know that situational leadership theory ...
Read More Airbrushes, Avatars and Authenticity: Leading Without Misleading
By L2L Contributing Author |
If you were to look at many leaders today, you'd think that they were superheroes. Unblemished. Never afraid. Superpowers. Boundless ...
Read More The Era of “Effective Immediately”
By L2L Contributing Author |
Never has the figurative sense of two words meant so much more than the literally sense as “Effective Immediately.” (OK, ...
Read More A Leader's Reflection On Reality
By L2L Contributing Author |
What is Reality? Who determines it? How can one get in tune with what others perceive as reality? These are ...
Read More Leaders Make Passionate Choices!
By L2L Contributing Author |
Everyone needs to have passion! Passion guides us, drives us, and brings us to our fullest potential. So Many Choices ...
Read More The Leader's Vision: Before and After
By L2L Contributing Author |
Recently, I experienced a 25-year "experiment" come to its conclusion. The "experiment" was in raising up 5 kids to adulthood ...
Read More Leading Below The Radar
By L2L Contributing Author |
As far as customers are concerned you are the company. This is not a burden, but the core of your ...
Read More Can You Hear Me Now?
By L2L Contributing Author |
"Did you say something?...Are you there?" Too often we find ourselves repeating the same information over and over again. Whether ...
Read More Dog Days of Leadership
By L2L Contributing Author |
The dog days of summer are typically the hottest, most humid, most uncomfortable days of the season. Usually, the ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Leadership "Do" Diligence
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More Articles of Faith: The Leadership "Stoplights"
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More Leading Through Laughter
By L2L Contributing Author |
Walt Disney once said, "When the subject permits, we let fly with all the satire and gags at our command. ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Spiritual Leadership
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More How to Increase the Success of Change
By L2L Contributing Author |
Why is it that some organizations believe that employee engagement is either "a thing to do to employees" or it ...
Read More Leaders Gain From The Pain
By L2L Contributing Author |
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize ...
Read More Being a Green Leader: Grass Stain or Green Suit
By L2L Contributing Author |
We have been bombarded with “green” this and “green” that. So what exactly does “green” mean? Is it just a ...
Read More Leader, Don't Be A Goalie
By L2L Contributing Author |
Preventing Goals In the game of soccer, the goalie is the person on the team who's primary objective is to stop ...
Read More Why Do Executives Fail?
By L2L Contributing Author |
Executives fail for many reasons, but based on my executive coaching practice, it is clear that leaders fail more often out ...
Read More There's No "iPhone" in "Team"
By L2L Contributing Author |
The Long Distance Relationship With the rapid increase in technology over the past years leaders are beginning to use email, smart ...
Read More Raise Your “Voice”
By L2L Contributing Author |
Organizational behaviorists define voice as a means for employees to communicate dissatisfaction with their work situations in an effort to ...
Read More Articles of Faith: The Leadership Slippery Slope
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More Managing Politics at Work
By L2L Contributing Author |
Are office politics zapping your energy? Are they restricting your work flow? Do you wish that more of your time ...
Read More Hey Leader, Bring On Some Tension!
By L2L Contributing Author |
The Utopian World? It seems that we operate in a world where most people expect to go about their business ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Leadership In Action
By L2L Contributing Author |
In Fall 2003, a close friend of mine Rob Henson called me on the telephone and asked if I was ...
Read More The Best of L2L Blogazine 2009-2010 (Top #1 and 2)
By L2L Contributing Author |
This week L2L is bringing you a recap of the Top 10 most popular blog posts over the last year. ...
Read More The Best of L2L Blogazine 2009-2010 (Top #3 and 4)
By L2L Contributing Author |
This week L2L is bringing you the Top 10 most popular blog posts over the last year. Enjoy and Share! ...
Read More The Best of L2L Blogazine 2009-2010 (Top #5 and 6)
By L2L Contributing Author |
This week L2L is bringing you the Top 10 most popular blog posts over the last year. Enjoy and Share! ...
Read More The Best of L2L Blogazine 2009-2010 (Top #7 and 8)
By L2L Contributing Author |
This week L2L is bringing you the Top 10 most popular blog posts over the last year. Enjoy and Share! ...
Read More The Best of L2L Blogazine 2009-2010 (Top #9 and 10)
By L2L Contributing Author |
This week L2L is bringing you the Top 10 most popular blog posts over the last year. Enjoy and Share! ...
Read More Risk – The Tumbling Dice of Leadership
By L2L Contributing Author |
Oh, my, my, my, I'm the lone craps shooter, playin' the field ev'ry night. Baby... can't stay...you got to roll ...
Read More Send Them to a Movie, Don't Train Them!
By L2L Contributing Author |
People love training when it’s entertaining and they enjoy themselves. They like it when the training gives them information that ...
Read More The Lucky Leader
By L2L Contributing Author |
How many times in your career have you heard people described as being lucky? Probably many. Probably today. "What the ...
Read More The Leadership Yawwwn-Fest
By L2L Contributing Author |
Are you inspiring others to action with your captivating stories that delight your audience? Or you guilty of just providing a leadership ...
Read More It's All In The Mood and 'Tude, Dude!
By L2L Contributing Author |
I love the summer! Living in the northern hemispheric city of Boston, Massachusetts USA, the summer months are a welcome, ...
Read More Leaders, Check Your Ethics at The Door?
By L2L Contributing Author |
A client recently asked me to explain the difference between Business Ethics and Non-Business Ethics. "There is no difference," I ...
Read More Servanthood, Soccer Moms & High School Students
By L2L Contributing Author |
What does it take to create a world where people work well together; where true leadership reigns; where things get ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Independence Day
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More Are You a Reader Leader?
By L2L Contributing Author |
With rare exception, leaders are readers. Here’s the problem: The overwhelming majority of that which is printed is not worth ...
Read More Leading From Behind
By L2L Contributing Author |
Sometimes the best helping hand you can get is a good, firm push. - Joann Thomas We often think of ...
Read More The Power Struggle: Part Three
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leadership Power Struggle: Part One | Part Two | Part Three "I am not interested in power for power’s sake, ...
Read More The Tale of Two Leaders
By L2L Contributing Author |
A young sapling will bend or break without support. And so will young team members. As a leader, it is incumbent upon ...
Read More Leadership and Four-Letter Words
By L2L Contributing Author |
Words matter. Mark Twain once said, “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference ...
Read More Leading Right Under Your Nose
By L2L Contributing Author |
The 99th Percentile Each day people strive to: Do their jobs well Get through the day Reach their goals But ...
Read More Leadership By The Gallon, What Flavor This Month?
By L2L Contributing Author |
A Scoop of History: Founded in the 1920s, Howard Johnson’s famously served up 28 ice cream flavors along America's highway ...
Read More Leadership Lessons from a Hound Dog
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leadership lessons from a hound dog? That's right. Here are three C's to get your head wrapped around this concept. ...
Read More Leadership Follies – Blamestorming
By L2L Contributing Author |
Are you Guilty of Blamestorming? Blamestorming (n) (blām'stôr'mĭng) 1) A method of collectively finding one to blame for a mistake ...
Read More Leadership and Soft Skills Training ROI?
By L2L Contributing Author |
When looking into increasing the skill level, awareness, and behavioral practices of leaders, organizations need to be able to weigh the ...
Read More Follow the Yellow Brick Detour
By L2L Contributing Author |
Sometimes, reality bites. Sometimes it's just a nip at the ankle. Other times, reality bites your hand. And other times it jumps ...
Read More Repairing Workplace Lines of Communication
By L2L Contributing Author |
What? I told them... Didn’t they hear what I said?!?! "Why don’t they understand me?" "What do you mean they ...
Read More What is The Business Case for Trust?
By L2L Contributing Author |
I am repeatedly asked to make the business case for trust. Trust is the foundation of any successful relationship, both ...
Read More Leading In The No Wake Zone
By L2L Contributing Author |
CINAP T'NOD I took a deep breath and tried to process the name on the back of the boat in ...
Read More Top Ten: Practices of A Peak-Performing Team
By L2L Contributing Author |
The Blue Angels set the standard each day at every level. The Blue Angels build every show around a focus ...
Read More Hey Leader: How to Understand the Obvious
By L2L Contributing Author |
The "obvious" can often be the least understood. Especially when it comes to problem-solving. So, as a leader, are you ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Are You a Faithful Friend?
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More The Portability of Knowledge
By L2L Contributing Author |
With the complex and evolving nature of the world today, the paradigm of centralized decision-making is a thing of the ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Leading in Tomorrow's Culture
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More How Do You Handle Change?
By L2L Contributing Author |
Last night my friend's wife and kids attended a play at the Fox Theatre, an Atlanta landmark. They followed their ...
Read More Leadership, my Friend, is Blowin' in the Wind
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leadership lessons can be found in almost every area of our culture. While sitting in traffic recently, I was listening ...
Read More Hey Leader, Who Needs You Most Today?
By L2L Contributing Author |
So, who needs you most today? A few years back I strapped on my backpack and joined a group of ...
Read More A Leader of Self is Born from Adversity
By L2L Contributing Author |
Many leaders have overcome challenges that helped shape their character. We hear how adversity prepared them to be strong, confident leaders, ...
Read More How to Get an Engaged, Productive, and Focused Workforce
By L2L Contributing Author |
A 2007 Towers Perrin survey of nearly 90,000 employees worldwide found that only 21% felt fully engaged at work and ...
Read More Keeping Up With The Joneses
By L2L Contributing Author |
As with most things in my adult life, my greatest learnings have come from my wife. A couple of days ...
Read More Lead or Fail: Successful Leadership in Turbulent Times
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leadership isn't what it used to be. The corner offices are slowly disappearing. The days of barking orders and expecting people to ...
Read More "We Not Me"… A Leadership Lesson From a 14-Year Old
By L2L Contributing Author |
As a father, I find myself constantly rediscovering fundamental leadership principles by simply observing the actions of my teenage daughters. ...
Read More On Leadership, Art, and Creativity
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leadership... with art and creativity? Can leadership be art? What does creativity have to do with this equation? Creativity fits ...
Read More Memorial Day: Leadership at Age 21
By L2L Contributing Author |
In America, we take time each spring to celebrate the brave men and women who serve our country in the ...
Read More It’s Not Just Oil That’s Leaking in America!
By L2L Contributing Author |
By now, everyone knows there are millions of gallons of crude oil in the Gulf of Mexico due to an ...
Read More Marching to the Same Beat
By L2L Contributing Author |
“No, no, no!” my daughter’s marching band leader screamed. “We cannot get to the end of the field unless ALL ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Lessons From the Wilderness
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More Leadership on the Run
By L2L Contributing Author |
I consider myself to be an amateur runner, albeit you will never see an Olympic medal hanging around my neck. Usain ...
Read More Preparing for Meetings, Going to Meetings, and Getting Coffee
By L2L Contributing Author |
“Being a high-performance organization!” “Doing more with less.” In the hallways and meeting rooms in organizations around the globe, people ...
Read More Mentoring: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
By L2L Contributing Author |
Do you have a mentor? Or are you actively serving as a mentor for someone else? As leaders, this is often ...
Read More High Stakes: The Employee Engagement Game
By L2L Contributing Author |
This is a second in a series of articles on what employers can do NOW to avoid losing the engagement ...
Read More Maximizing Leader Potential
By L2L Contributing Author |
Imagine this leadership scenario: Over the last two months, you completed the analysis of your staff creating this year’s succession ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Jesus and the Texas Two-Step
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More Are You Managing Your World, or Does It Manage You?
By L2L Contributing Author |
For all of us in leadership roles, we need to pause from time to time to make some key assessments. We ...
Read More So, You Think You Can Motivate?
By L2L Contributing Author |
So, You Think You Can Motivate? Do you, your team, or your organization need to overcome obstacles and deliver results? ...
Read More These Shoes Kill My Feet, But They're SO HOT
By L2L Contributing Author |
I had just finished a chapter of my book and was feeling quite satisfied. You see, I had finally completed ...
Read More Why Are You Holding Me Back?
By L2L Contributing Author |
In Dr. W. Edwards Deming’s book, “Out of the Crisis” (think ‘80’s), he said this: “The job of management ...
Read More The Power Struggle: Part Two
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leadership Power Struggle: Part One | Part Two | Part Three "The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.” ...
Read More The Checkbook and the Calendar
By L2L Contributing Author |
Several years ago, during the dot com boom, I worked for an internet startup company. During the company’s prime there ...
Read More Workplace Bullying: The Leader's Responsibility
By L2L Contributing Author |
Sadly, reported incidents of workplace bullying are on the increase. More and more people at work either are subject to, witness ...
Read More Aligning IT Leadership with the Business
By L2L Contributing Author |
Leadership shows up in every department within every organizations. Every department managers, supervisor, director, VP or above has the responsibility to ...
Read More Leadership Competition in Your Own Backyard
By L2L Contributing Author |
A few months ago the president of the board told me I wasn’t good at my job. Well, he didn't ...
Read More The EU Today: A Constant Stream of Leadership Lessons
By L2L Contributing Author |
Sure, I'm following it. Sort of. But it's hard. All this talk about the EU is giving me a dry ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Sense of Destiny
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More How Great Leaders Inspire Action
By L2L Contributing Author |
As I write this article in mid-2010, I am a 45-year old sales and marketing guy who has a deep ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Communicate Effectively
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More Wanted: Good Followers
By L2L Contributing Author |
We're all about good leadership, right? Guess what? Without followers, there are no leaders. And, more to the point, good leaders ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Discerning The Voice!
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More The Keys to an Optimistic Outlook
By L2L Contributing Author |
When I was growing up, I didn't really think too much about my self-talk that was playing over and over in my ...
Read More The Change Stops Here
By L2L Contributing Author |
Where does the “buck” stop with change? I’ll tell you where I think it stops… with your front line leaders. To ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Solomon's Failing Wisdom
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
Read More Managing Mondays: No Help Allowed!
By L2L Contributing Author |
Imagine this: One of your employees comes to you with an urgent problem and you know exactly what to do. It ...
Read More What Makes an Organization Great?
By L2L Contributing Author |
Of all the factors that lead to greatness within an organization, one factor stands head and shoulders above the rest. ...
Read More Teamwork? I Don't Need No Stinkin Teamwork!
By L2L Contributing Author |
Yeah, okay. So you’re going to climb that ladder by yourself. You’re going to go it alone and be able ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Vital Female Leadership Roles
By L2L Contributing Author |
Ladies in Leadership Recently, through my facebook fan page, I asked for suggested topics to post on my ministry blog. ...
Read More Articles of Faith: Is The Bible Relevant Today?
By L2L Contributing Author |
—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. ...
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