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Leadership Power: Grabbed or Granted?

It is hard to deny the connection between leadership and power. Depending on your experience and perspective, one or more likely came to mind when you read those two words together. Leaders have and can create power, and they can do it in a variety of ways. And yet power and leadership are strange bedfellows

How to Get Your Great Work MBA

Ok, so it isn’t a real MBA, but with all due respect, in some ways it might be better. So if it isn’t a “real” MBA, what is it? Imagine taking a world class coach, bestselling author and Rhodes Scholar who focuses his time on helping people accomplish more of the right work in their

How Do You Win?

It’s about the middle of the pro football season, and last week the NFL lost a long-time, colorful, and beloved coach – Bum Phillips. Phillips was known for wearing his cowboy hat on the sidelines and for being very quotable. Today’s quotation may be his best – and it applies to all leaders. Read it,

Once You Master Delegation . . .

Last week, I wrote about some of the challenges that keep us from delegating important work to others – and why John Wayne was part of the problem (if you haven’t read it, I encourage you to – it created a flurry of opinions and comments worth reading as well!). Once you get past these

You Can’t Coach Attitude

I wish I had a dime for every time I have experienced this story . . . I’ve just finished giving a workshop or a keynote, and someone walks up to me with a question. It is seldom a question asked in front of the group, but rather separately on the side, alone. “I’ve got

Let Me Tell You a Story

As human beings we love stories. It starts at a young age and continues throughout life. Why are stories so compelling? Because our lives themselves are a series of stories. Yet storytelling itself is a bit of a paradox. Some people say they can’t tell a story, and yet we tell them all day long.

How to Live

Last week, I shared and wrote about creating a meaningful life. This week, I celebrate the untimely death of a close life long friend, John Allison. He led a meaningful life, and showed many more of us how to do so through his example. In his honor, here is today’s thought for you. Questions to

How John Wayne Stunted Leadership Development

John Wayne was one of the biggest film stars ever. And his legacy has been hindering leaders for a long time. Unwittingly, in many of his movies, John Wayne “proves” that you can succeed alone. All you need is the biggest will, the most stamina, and the fastest gun. John Wayne taught (well, perhaps reinforced)

Eight Things Leaders Need to Know About Speed

Today in 1947 Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier – going faster than any human had ever gone up until that point – about 768 miles per hour or a mile in five seconds. And it seems that since then speed has played a bigger part in all areas of our lives, including at work.

Daily Rituals: How Artists Work

By Mason Currey Do you have rituals or routines that support (or don’t) your productivity? Regardless of your answers to that question, would you like to have an insight into how other people build their life to support their work and passions? In either case, this book is a fascinating way to get answers and

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