I’m guessing most all of those who read this haven’t been, aren’t and won’t ever be Olympic athletes.  (If you are please leave a comment I’d love to know!)  I’m also guessing with about the same level of certainty that you have watched, heard about or read about at least some of the Olympic activities

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I recently read somewhere (I’m sorry I can’t trace my steps to where I read it or who wrote it) about the difference between spam and noise; spam being something unwanted, unrequested, an too frequent – and noise being irrrelevant or meaningless. I believe leaders sometimes don’t communicate as much as they should because they don’t

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There are tools, seminars, books, CD’s, teleseminar, webinars and workshops (and more) to help you learn and improve in any area of your life. I should know, I have bought and attended many of them, and sold a great number of them as well. This article isn’t meant dissuade you from investing in these opportunities,

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Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day (if you are reading this and you forgot, consider this a public service announcement before I get on to the post). Valentine’s Day, according to Wikipediais “an annual holiday celebrated on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.” Perhaps not all of that matches up to our role as leaders

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Last July, I wrote a post about the dancing man (a popular YouTube video), and some leadership lessons from it.  This morning I read (and saw) Derek Siver’s TED talk from this week based on the same video. (If you would like to read the transcript of Derek’s talk, you can find it here.) Derek makes

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Our members in the Remarkable Leadership Learning System are focusing on the skill of Communicating with Confidence this month.  During our teleseminar last week we were talking our role as leaders to build the confidence of others. Due to an interactive session with a variety of great questions I wasn’t able to get through all

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Early in my consulting career I started telling people the consulting business is a relationship business. I was right, just a little short sighted. Actually all business is a relationship business. All work is a relationship business. All leadership is a relationship business. And while our focus in this article is on business or professional

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This week’s Resource Recommendation – Fascinate: Your 7 Triggers to Persuasion and Captivation By Sally Hogshead We buy products because we are fascinated in some way. We enter professions, pick jobs and choose friends (and mates) because of fascination. We pick movies, television shows and books because of  . . . fascination. This book arrived

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Tony Robbins says, “People are not lazy. They simply have impotent goals – that is, goals that do not inspire them.” So I ask you . . . Are your goals impotent, or important? If you aren’t making as much progress as you wish, in any area of your life, ask yourself that question again.

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