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7 Lessons I Learned From Stephen R. Covey
My first real job out of college was at the Covey Leadership Center. The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People was just beginning to be a worldwide sensation. Truthfully, when I first started working at the Center I was a bit skeptical of Stephen Covey. Did he really walk the talk? Was he really…
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Top Seven Mistakes Managers Make When Giving Constructive Feedback and How to Avoid Them
If you are a manager who struggles with giving constructive feedback, I can almost guarantee you are making these mistakes. And if you continually fail to deliver direct and effective feedback, you are going to find out–if you haven’t already–that the consequences are time-consuming, expensive and even detrimental to your career and reputation as a…
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3 Things CEOs Should Do To Radically Improve Their Leadership
Being a CEO or any senior executive can be a very lonely job. You often have the weight of the world on your shoulders and you are constantly navigating the unknown. People treat you differently and sometimes this is nice and sometimes you just wonder if they are hiding the truth. You and a select…
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The Cold War for Talent Heats Up
Even with the down economy the Talent War is in full effect. Although maybe more of a subtle ‘Cold War,’ top talent is either looking for the next opportunity or really smart companies are making efforts to attract talent away from their current roles. This is the time to grab great talent. If you do…
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7 Tempting (but bad) Approaches to Avoid When Setting Strategic Direction
Too many organizations are still caught in the malaise of inaction when it comes to setting direction these days. I get it, things are still unclear and not stable. There is a natural rationalization to wait until all of the dust has settled. However, taking no action and a “wait and see” approach can be…
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3 Actions That Executives Must Take To Get Momentum Going
Many companies today are in the doldrums. The economic downturn has been long and hard for most organizations. No one ever expected it to go this long and there is still wide-scale resistance to the “new normal”. And it is easy for executives to play small and shrink during these times but they must do…
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5 Check-points To Developing a Corporate Mission Statement
No More Mission Statements For many years now I have been a big proponent of organizational Mission Statements and yet at this moment I find myself telling some of my clients to “Stop it already with the Mission Statements!” Seriously, the mission statement is something that I have felt so strong about for many years,…
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Motivating Employees in the Real World
Last week a friend of mine shared a powerful link on YouTube by Daniel Pink and his work from his book Drive on motivating employees. The message although not entirely new is shared well with subtle insights that are valuable to leaders. For a long while now we have known that money is not the…
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Meetings and Deferring Decision-Making
Ah meetings, you love them or you hate them. Of course many meetings, if not most, are poorly run. Isn’t that amazing after all the books and training classes on holding effective meetings they still can be painful and wasteful. People have been making jokes about bad meetings for over a decade and yet they…