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Tag: Power

  • The Ability to Suspend Judgment….

    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…

  • Power Your Identity

    Power Your Identity

    So we’re at the airport – delayed for 6 hours. It’s fine though. If you ever want to see someone’s real identity, watch them after they are told that their flight has been delayed 6 hours. But as we sit here, it’s been so interesting to watch people and their…

  • The Power of a Friend

    The Power of a Friend

    This morning, I had the privilege of giving a talk at the college that I teach at.  I normally turn down the local speaking gigs.  I mean, I teach there so it’s not like people haven’t heard me.  Sometimes I think students get sick of hearing you. Anyway, I gave…

  • Knowing What They Think of You

    Knowing What They Think of You

    There is something so powerful about knowing what they think of you. We don’t always know, but when they do tell us or when you find out, there is this tremendous amount of freedom that comes from it. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it makes sense. Sometimes it makes you question…

  • Truth and the Right Time

    Speak the truth in love.  We’ve all learned that. Honesty is the best policy – was some phrase that came a lot later and I learned it.  I might have even taught it. Although I still believe in both of those phrases, I like Truth and the Right Time.  Speak…

  • Seduction

    Seduction

    I recently wrote about Power.  I read a book on it.  Here’s the post.  Well, his next book is on seduction.  I’m not that far into it, but it is definitely connected to power and in many cases leadership. Here’s the book cover – If you do a Google search…

  • Power

    Power

    When you first think of this word or idea, what do you think about?  I just read a book about power, and it was quite interesting.  I really challenged my ideas of it.  Check out this webpage for the table of contents and the description of each of the chapters.…

  • F Score #fascinate

    Are you fascinating?  You gotta check out your fscore at Sally Hogshead’s website – click here.  There are 7 triggers that fascinate or better put – make you fascinating.  It’s a pretty incredible test.  It’s only 28 questions.  It’ll give you your main trigger that makes your message fascinating.  I’m…

  • LL4: What drives leadership

    What drives leadership? At one point, I couldn’t stand the conversation about leadership. It just seemed like books were being written on leadership that would claim that these are the laws or these are the steps that you need to follow in order to become a leader. It always left…