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Five Reasons Great Leaders are Great Networkers

Networking. For some, that word brings images of hotel meeting rooms, coffee (or a cash bar), and a room of people trying to give you their business card. Others think networking is for sales people and those looking for a job. If your first thought was either of those things, keep reading . . .

It isn’t Ability That is Missing

I’m drawn to today’s quotation, because I believe it is profoundly true. There might be a more elegant way to say it, but hey, I’m sure little I say in English would be elegant once translated into French. Read the quotation a couple of times; let it sink in a bit, then read on here . .

Midnight Lunch – The 4 Phases of Team Collaboration Success from Thomas Edison’s Lab

By Sarah Miller Caldicott The premise is cool: learning about collaborative teams from the great grand-niece of Thomas Edison. I bought the book based on that premise and a recommendation. What I found was a book that has lots of insights about Edison and his working style, approach and beliefs. Since I have read quite

Doing the Most Important Things

I grew up on a farm. We raised a variety of crops, had a fertilizer and seed business, and we raised hogs. For most of my growing up, our hog operation was pretty small, and feeding was done somewhat automatically. Feed was prepared every few days, and loaded into feeders which was gravity fed to

The Leader’s Attitude Choice

I travel enough to have lots of travel and airline stories. Overall, I have as many positive ones as negative ones. In fact, I am typically very productive on airplanes, even when the seating space is tight. Today, however, I want to talk about one of “those” travel days. My day was supposed to be relatively

The Gift of Accountability

There are just three more days in the 12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas. If you have been following along, don’t stop now! And if you have just found this thread of tasks/gifts, you can get the background, purpose and full recap here. I grew up on a farm, and while we rarely had chickens (or

The Gift of Questions

On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me . . . Four calling birds? I don’t want to give or receive any birds, but the gift I’m writing about today? That’s definitely a gift worth giving. If you don’t know how a Twelve Days of Christmas reference makes it onto a

The Gift of (Other) Focus

I’m not a swan expert, but if I watch them, I don’t see them worrying about other swans (unless a mother with her young). I mean, look at this picture – the swans are “a swimming” on their own – focused on their surroundings and their needs. Given that observation, they aren’t a good model for our

The Gift of Feedback

As we count down to Christmas, I am creating 12 daily leadership tasks, designed to be completed in 12 minutes or less that I am calling the 12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas. You can see the premise and links to the others in the list here. The best part about these tasks is that in

The Gift of Relationships

On 12/12/12 I outlined a process I call The 12 (Leadership) Days of Christmas. If you have been following along you know that. If not, check out the beginning (with links to the other days) to understand what we are doing and why. In the song there are ten lords a leaping. As a leader

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