Tag: leadership
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The Ability to Suspend Judgment….
is not just cognitive. It is also an emotional endeavor. I have written about Suspending Judgement before. Here’s a post about it in the form of Asking Questions. Here’s another post about it as I understood it and wrote about it years ago – Suspend Judgment. Here’s another post about…
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Break the Pattern
I think you have to be at least 30 to understand this post, but a sign of progress and change is having the ability to Break the Pattern. Take a look back at your life, and ask yourself, “Are you able to break the pattern?” It could be any pattern,…
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LL49: The Tom Yankoff Lesson
You all need Tom Yankoff in your life. Now, I know Tom, and he would probably like to be in your life as well. You will definitely love it for sure. Okay, so maybe there’s not enough Tom Yankoff to go around for all us, but you definitely need a…
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Planning = Controlled
Planning is optimal in a controlled environment. When everything in the situation is under control – plans work. When plans are made in a context that it is not controlled – plans don’t always work. The situation changes. Feelings get hurt. Plans work when it is controlled. Leadership is needed…
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LL:45 Employee Service
When you hear someone talk about customer service, you know what they are talking about, but have you ever heard of Employee Service? Here’s the thinking: Who at your company or who that you lead provides the customer service? Answer: your employees; those that follow your leadership. You expect great…
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LL44: Because Rocks Don’t Talk Back
I had an interesting interchange with a prospective student yesterday. We ran an event on campus for our Leadership Program – which I currently direct. As part of the visit day, our prospective students had to complete certain initiatives, and my leadership students would make observations about each student. The…
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LL43: One Day of Learning
Recently, I heard an amazing leader speak on leadership and business. He has been CEO of many organizations. He’s lead companies who’s worth was over 500 billion dollars. He’s quite qualified. He shared so many fascinating leadership insights and lessons, but one that he shared that stood out to me…
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Articulate Awareness
I heard someone say this today. Awareness is easy, but to be able to articulate awareness – that’s not as easy. I loved hearing the saying. It helped me to understand that it doesn’t matter how aware I am of a problem, if I am not able to adequately articulate…
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Photocopying Vision
I was at a conference yesterday. Here is the conference that I went to. The speaker was talking about how we photo copy vision. It’s so true. He kept saying that vision that is borrowed is not unique. Photocopied vision from some other place or some other organization won’t work…
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LL39: Not Just Leadership
I was recently talking to a mentor about the leadership that it takes to run a successful startup. I was expecting him to just talk about the leadership that is necessary to make it successful but what I learned was needed was not just leadership. He listed off several abilities…
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LL38: Teaching Leadership in a Classroom
Is it possible to teach leadership in a classroom? As someone that teaches leadership in the classroom, it’s been and probably always be a question that I ask myself. As the saying goes, you either have it or you don’t have it – so that begs the question, can it…
