This is the story of how a few people with a big vision are making a difference for the city of Tulsa. It’s a story about partnerships, sharing resources, and making a difference for workers and leaders. It started with Mike Henry, whose vision of bringing leaders together locally led him to form Lead Change

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Today’s featured blogger is Mike Figliuolo, the author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership. Here’s Mike: Your team doesn’t trust you.  Honestly.  They don’t. Trust is key to effective working relationships; yet, as you climb the corporate ladder, trust seems harder to earn and easier to lose. What causes

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  As the twentieth century came to a close, the industrial age ended as well.  Where most employees once worked in large manufacturing firms that relied on rote tasks performed on large assembly lines – from autoworkers to assemblers in all fields, today’s workers are more likely to work in service related jobs that require

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The first dog my wife and I got from the shelter was a big, happy blonde Labrador mix.  We took the time and effort to train him, and went through about fifty bags of dog biscuits in teaching him to sit, stay, lie down, and fetch.  It took time, but he was a great dog

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A Facebook post by dear friend & mentor, Becky Robinson, caught my eye this week. Her post said: “My girls haven’t colored much this summer. Yesterday, I bought a new box of crayons. They’ve been coloring nonstop. If I had known that was all it would take, I would have bought them a new box

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Leadership is a popular word these days. Consultants preach it, journalists either praise it or bemoan it, companies, boards investors and customers demand it. The days when leaders were anointed at birth, except in a very few cases, are long gone. Today’s leaders may have great power… or none depending on the authority they wield. 

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Every time I sit in a meeting, I’m utterly fascinated by the way groups make decisions.  What happens before, during and after the meeting is different depending upon an organization’s culture.  I’m reminded of this during the recent debt ceiling talks … well, maybe we shouldn’t even go there. Charlie Judy, author of HR Fishbowl,

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Here is a leadership challenge for anyone who leads people: Step 1: A Deeper Look Take a look in the mirror. Take a really long look. Look deeply and intently into your own eyes. Do this for an extended period that may even outlast your normal attention span. Just stand there and look deeply at

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Before his untimely death, Heath Ledger put together an amazing performance as the Joker. He played a psychopath intent on creating mayhem as a part of his personal agenda in his warped sense of reality. We have developed a fascination with psychopathic behavior. Some of the most popular films and shows are focused on psychopathy:

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You know that little voice in your head, the one you hear as soon as you get nervous? The one that tells you to play it safe? It lies. It tells you that you should slow down, or even stop, when in fact you might just be on the verge of an extraordinary breakthrough, about

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