There are tools, seminars, books, CD’s, teleseminar, webinars and workshops (and more) to help you learn and improve in any area of your life. I should know, I have bought and attended many of them, and sold a great number of them as well. This article isn’t meant dissuade you from investing in these opportunities,

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Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day (if you are reading this and you forgot, consider this a public service announcement before I get on to the post). Valentine’s Day, according to Wikipediais “an annual holiday celebrated on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.” Perhaps not all of that matches up to our role as leaders

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Last July, I wrote a post about the dancing man (a popular YouTube video), and some leadership lessons from it.  This morning I read (and saw) Derek Siver’s TED talk from this week based on the same video. (If you would like to read the transcript of Derek’s talk, you can find it here.) Derek makes

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This month, proactive leaders who are continually improving their leadership skills as members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System are focused on Communicating with Confidence.   Yesterday was the Guest Conversation for Silver members (and above) and it featured Kate Atkin, leadership and confidence expert, and author of The Confident Manager.  (She also wrote a blog post about

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The disaster happened in Haiti one full month ago.  It is hard to believe.  Just a few days after the tragedy, I challenged us all as leaders and humans to take action – not only to help, but as a leadership development exercise.  (Take a read). Then a few days later, I offered a deal

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Our members in the Remarkable Leadership Learning System are focusing on the skill of Communicating with Confidence this month.  During our teleseminar last week we were talking our role as leaders to build the confidence of others. Due to an interactive session with a variety of great questions I wasn’t able to get through all

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This week’s Resource Recommendation – Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation By Sally Hogshead We buy products because we are fascinated in some way. We enter professions, pick jobs and choose friends (and mates) because of fascination. We pick movies, television shows and books because of  . . . fascination. This book arrived

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Early in my consulting career I started telling people the consulting business is a relationship business. I was right, just a little short sighted. Actually all business is a relationship business. All work is a relationship business. All leadership is a relationship business. And while our focus in this article is on business or professional

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Tony Robbins says, “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.” So I ask you . . . Are your goals impotent, or important? If you aren’t making as much progress as you wish, in any area of your life, ask yourself that question again.

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The title and  idea for this post comes from social media superstar and super good guy (I’m pleased to call him a friend) Chris Brogan, who recently wrote a post called, Your Farmer List . In the post Chris shares things that should be on a blogger’s daily task list.  Of course, as a farm kid, I

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