Over the years, I’ve come to believe, and have told many groups, that feedback often says as much about us as it does the performance about which we are giving feedback. Even if you wouldn’t go quite that far, it is safe to say that it is difficult/impossible for our feedback not to be, at

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Today’s episode is in response to a question that I got as a result of a recent blog post I wrote on coaching to attitude. The question: Isn’t attitude a form of behavior? When I get this question, my answer always starts with another question: “What are they actually doing, what is their behavior?” And

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Delegation is something that every leader has feelings about. Some feel they do it well. Some don’t even know where to start. Some have seen a good example of it. Some feel like every time someone has “delegated” to them, it felt like they’d just been dumped on. Some think it is something they should

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By David Green David Green started with $600 and created Hobby Lobby – the large chain of home and craft stores. A person who has had that kind of success is someone you could probably learn something from, and in this very readable book from 2005, you can. While I believe there are many management

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One of the most written about (and therefore most quoted) people in history is Abraham Lincoln. Given that, it would make sense to share some of Abe’s wisdom here. Today, I share one I profoundly agree with, but don’t remember reading before. I hope it challenges and excites you as much as it does me.

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I don’t often (ok, basically never) write about politics or the political system, except to look for lessons we can learn from what our leaders are doing (or not doing). I’ll get to the lesson, but first, the frustration most all of us share. Why can’t our Congress and our President get along? I mean,

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Are you making this costly leadership mistake? You’ve definitely seen it before and likely even made it yourself. And building your influence doesn’t happen if you are. Check out my latest Remarkable TV episode below and find out. When we are doing all of the talking, we won’t get the results that we want. If

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We all have limits – the boundaries beyond which we just don’t go. After all, it wouldn’t be safe. It wouldn’t be prudent. It wouldn’t be easy. We set limits for safety purposes, for logical purposes and sometimes as excuses. Limits are a part of life. But as leaders, we must be in the business

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March 17 is the day many of us think about luck and finding “the Luck of the Irish.” Recently, I wrote about how leaders can create their own luck, and the combination of those thoughts, and the fact that I will be in Chicago to facilitate our Remarkable Leadership Workshop, got me thinking. What if

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While Valentine’s Day is past, it is still the month of love, so I’m staying with that theme. Couple that with the post I wrote last week about a dialogue disaster, and this week I want to talk more about dialogue and connect it to romance.  Strange? I think when you are done reading you

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