Yes, I wrote a book called Remarkable Leadership and yes, Remarkable is a part of our branding.   But the product I am excited to tell you about wasn’t created because I am building a brand.  It was created because of what we believe. If you go to any page on our website, you will find

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Until recently, when people thought of the word team, they thought of a group of people working together in close proximity. This applied to any sort of team – be it sports or work. Of course, the world looks different now. While sports teams still need to compete on the same field or floor, working

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This week’s Resource Recommendation is Full Steam Ahead!  Unleash the Power of Vision in Your Work and Your Life by Ken Blanchard and Jesse Lyn Stoner. Here’s a promising recipe for a book you’ll like. Take a bestselling author (Blanchard) and pair him with a talented, smart and world-wise co-author (Stoner). Make the book a

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Earlier this week I wrote a post stating that leaders should have a closed door policy.  This post has created lots of conversation – I have received a number of emails, had personal conversations and several people wrote lengthy comments on the blog post as well. I’ll admit I used the “closed door” metaphor to

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On May 6, 1954 Roger Bannister set a new world record, as the first to break  the four minute barrier for one mile – running it in 3:59.4 (the current record is 3:43.13).  While the common myth says that people didn’t think the 4 minute barrier was physically possible, the reality is it was a barrier

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Each Spring, people begin preparing for a popular hobby. Whether it is flowers or food, people are thinking about, planning for, and actually planting their gardens.  Some of these gardens are meant simply to provide beauty, others to put healthy and needed food on the table – most all are done as a labor of

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Van Morrison is a legend in the music business as a singer and songwriter.  If you are of a certain age, I’m guessing your are humming “Moondance” simply because I mentioned his name. I read this Van Morrison quote via DanielKFoisy on Twitter and it really stuck with me: “Meet them halfway with love, peace,

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This is a post I started a couple weeks ago, then I let it sit. Since yesterday was the 32nd anniversary of America’s worst commercial nuclear accident (inside the Unit Two reactor at the Three Mile Island plant near Middletown, Pa.), it seems appropriate to finish it now. The recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan are terrible twin

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This weeks resource recommendation is Stop Workplace Drama: Train Your Team to Have No Complaints, No Excuses and No Regrets By Marlene Chism Everyone I’ve mentioned this title to, loves it! I mean who wants all the drama? Like many catch phrases and cliché’s, not everyone has the same definition of drama. Chism defines drama

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