If you have seen the movie or stage musical The Sound of Music, you likely remember Maria leaving the Abbey to become a Governess. As she winds her way through town and toward the von Trapp mansion she sings of her uneasiness – and her lack of confidence in her ability to succeed in this

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On the teleseminar for our Remarkable Leadership Learning System Members today (you can get two months months membership free) I talked about how as leaders we must communicate change effectively. During the call we were talking about the role of the comfort zone in our willingness to change. During that conversation I stated what I

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I wish I could claim the title of this post as my original thought, but I can’t.  It belongs to Barbara Hemphill, speaker, author, and among other things, developer of the Taming the Paper Tiger series of products.  I read this line a couple of days ago and it struck me (perhaps because I have

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Personal development. Professional development. Leadership development. Regardless of which words you use, chances are as the New Year begins, you are thinking about some sort of development; some sort of approach to creating change, growth and advancement in your life. As you think about our world today, the good news is that you have lots

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Want to read the smartest leadership thinkers all in one place? That is the goal of the Leadership Development Carnival.  The current issue is dubbed “the best of 2009.”  Each author, including me, pick their own posts. The Carnival is avaiable now, and I would urge you to take a look right now!

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A couple of days I wrote a post about project leadership lessons from a jigsaw puzzle.  Last night I finished it  (aren’t those tractors beautiful?) The lessons from the earlier post are valuable.  Here are a couple of other additional thoughts. Energy of the “team”  (Kelsey, especially) grew as I got closer to the end. 

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One of my winter memories as a kid was doing jigsaw puzzles – especially at the holidays or on “snow days” those wonderful times in western Michigan when there was more snow than the plows could handle and there was no school because of it. While I haven’t really worked on a jigsaw puzzle for

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