The idea for this post comes with a tip of the hat to a high school friend, Jerry Gray, reconnected with first online.  He wrote a short blog post  then challenged me via Facebook to do something with it. This is my shot at “doing something with it” Jerry. Jerry suggests we need a balanced

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Celebration is often a challenging topic for leaders. They wonder if they should celebrate and when they should celebrate. They waffle between “we don’t need to celebrate, people know we are succeeding” and celebrating every, single, little thing along the way. The best answer (as is the often the case) lies somewhere in the middle.

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Each week I write and send something called Powerquotes Plus– a free email that shares a quotation, questions to ponder and action steps.  I include quotations that will challenge and inspire readers.  the other criteria I have adopted over time is to only include quotations from people who people can learn more about if they

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Best selling authors of The Leadership Challenge Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner’s latest book is called The Truth About Leadership.  While they have been researching, speaking and writing about leadership for nearly three decades, I believe this is their best work to date. This book identifies ten leadership truths that Jim and Barry have identified over their careers as

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In Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner’s new book The Truth About Leadership (which is excellent and I will be recommending it fully here soon) they share some interesting research. They have asked people of all ages who they see as their leadership role models.  In the book they have broken down the respondents into two

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The simplest way to open this recommendation is to say that if you are in sales, you must visit this site. Under construction for several months, this sales portal contains content, resources, access to and events led by some of the best known leadership experts in the world, and some you likely won’t know but

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In the course of your day as a leader you are faced with many decisions. Some come in emails, some in inquiries, and some in meetings. Some you have time to consider, for some you will rely on input from others, and others you must make immediately. There’s no question, leadership requires decision-making. The decisions

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This short post is prompted by Dan Rockwell’s great post yesterday on his fine Leadership Freak Blog. In it he proposes that “what’s important to you” is the most powerful question of all (read it, it is less than 300 words  – and the comments are awesome too).  While I’m not not great at “give

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In certain situations we all understand and value the importance of encouragement. Take, with kids for example.  When they are learning to walk and talk, there is tons of encouragement from every adult around. We know that if they keep at it they will succeed. Take, our friends as a second example.  When our closest friends

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