In my friend Jon Gordon’s most recent book, The Shark and the Goldfish , the hero of the story learns an important lesson: Don’t Settle. This lesson struck me as I read this book this week. Don’t settle. I thought about the parts of my life where I am settling. Beyond me though, I believe that
Yesterday, on the Guest conversation Call as a part of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System, my guest Timothy Johnson was asked how to deal with resistance to process improvement efforts in the form of “I don’t have time.” His answer was brief, to the point, and completely correct. He pointed out that we all have
Perhaps I should keep this post short. If we all read and took action on the three word title of this post, we would all be more effective starting today and forever. I was reminded to share this key leadership skill with you today because of the quotation I shared in our Powerquotes Plus newsletter
In my most recent issue of our email newsletter Powerquotes , I shared this quotation from the legendary management thinker Peter Drucker. People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.There is a tremendous two fold leadership lesson here
Recent research on why leaders use executive coaching is instructive for all of us. the research, cited here, includes the following reasons: 1. Sharpening the leadership skills of high potential individuals 2. Correcting leadership skill gaps 3. Improving success rate, or reducing risk of failure of new leaders 4. Correcting employee relations problems 5. Providing
Last week in my Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential newsletter I wrote about four ways to engage your team (reading the article now would be a very good idea). Today I am co-facilitating a workshop for new supervisors called Bud to Boss and we are talking about, you guessed it, engaging team members. It is a topic all leaders
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