On our monthly Remarkable Leadership teleseminar yesterday (titled Remarkable Leaders Create Team Alignment) I was able to answer many of the questions raised by our over 250 registrants.  But I ran out of time before I could answer this one that came in from Colorado: How much/how often is it wise for teams to be

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 Leadership is defined as an act or instance of leading; guidance; or direction.  This is such a vague statement; where to begin? If you want to be a good leader and practice good, effective leadership development and leadership skills, what should you focus on? I am going to give you my basic 3 components of

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Below is a popular YouTube video, which shows a leader, taking action (even if it is a kinda goofy action), and through his passion and example, creating followers.  To get the full effect, watch the full video, but at a minimum watch at least past the one minute mark. Is this guy exhibiting executive leadership

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With U.S. soccer fresh on our minds from the Confederations Cup I wanted to bring to light the leadership situation that major leader soccer team L.A. Galaxy is currently dealing with, and has been dealing with for some time.  Some preliminary information: 2005: Landon Donovan arrives (serves as captain) 2007: David Beckham arrives (takes over

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This is the third of a series of guest posts from the ten bloggers nominated for Best Leadership Blog of 2009 (place your vote here) John Bishop is a person who never fails to bring forth discussions and insights that are not only thought-provoking, but informational and inspirational also. An evidence to this is his

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In the Money Section of USA Today on Monday May 19th, an interview with 3M CEO George Buckley ran (here is the online copy). According to a recent survey by The Hay Group and Chief Executive magazine, 3M ranked first in organizational leadership development. Given that standing, the thoughts of the CEO would be valuable.  While

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Why is it that some leaders have no problem gaining compliance from those he or she is trying to lead and some leaders have such difficulties? What leadership skills are necessary for successfully leading a team? The answer to these questions will bring a plethora of thoughts and ideas to your head as to what

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In today’s Powerquotes Plus our members received this quotation from the author Vash Young: “Any experience can be transformed into something of value.” Most of us would agree with this thought, and yet, when the experience has been challenging, hard, difficult or painful, it is harder to believe or remember. That is where we as

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Around the world today there will be plenty of people sitting in some sort of supervisor training workshop. And while those sessions will be well designed and led by skilled and well meaning trainers and facilitators, the vast majority of these sessions will leave out skills that will be critical to both the supervisor’s and

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I’ve been writing my Powerquotes Plus newsletter for nine years (and it’s predecessor Powerquotes for 13 years).  In every issue there is a quotation, questions to ponder, and action steps. Because of this, I have written 1000’s of questions over the years, hopefully many of them very good. But a question I wrote the other day, while

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