I try to write things in this blog that get us thinking outside of the traditional thinking and skills covered or discussed in most organizational leadership development training. Hopefully this post will succeed – because that is exactly the point I am trying to make. Let’s start at the beginning. Leaders exist to move people
This is a post prompted by the anniversary of the attacks on the United States on 9/11/01. While that was a tragedy of epic proportions, many good things happened in the days and weeks that followed, not the least of which was that people across the United States became more aware of their values. The
Questions – they are a critical to the ultimate success of a Remarkable Leader. They support our leadership influence and our leadership communication (and a lot more). Yet the power of questions and the skills in asking them effectively is rarely included in leadership skill training. This month members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System are working
This post is about persuasion, influence, the power and importance of positive feedback and recognition, with a sprinkling of marketing and social media thrown in for good measure. For all of those reasons everyone in corporate leadership, executive leadership or ANYONE interested in developing effective leadership skills should read on. First a back story. For
46 years ago today, one of the most famous speeches in American history was delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In it, he told 200,000 gathered on the Mall in Washington D.C. and the world that “I have a dream.” Today I ask you, as a leader, What’s Your Dream? Before you start backtracking or
In the Tuesday August 18th edition of The Wall Street Journal (article not available online), in an article about Max Kepler-Rozycki, a 16 year old baseball prospect from Germany, came a profound truth. The prospect’s parents are both dancers, and his mother Kathy Kepler was a former star ballerina in the Berlin ballet. The profound
Image from Barack Obama Pictures I have a history with this question – though not a political one. We did a number of activities related to learning leadership lessons from the Presidential Campaign last summer and fall. (Here and here and here are links to some information you will find interesting). And now more than 6
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