How many times have have you heard someone say, “Don’t reinvent the wheel?” Late last week I read Peter Shankman’s HARO email service that Psychology Today magazine wants you to do exactly that.  Here’s their request and your opportunity: CREATIVITY CHALLENGE: CAN YOU REINVENT THE WHEEL? Show us your reinvention of the wheel, by doing

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I was reading late last night, finishing a book, my daughter Kelsey came in, awakened for unknown reasons.  She asked me to come lay with her to help her go back to sleep. As I laid in her bed, wide awake, the following thought went through my head.   When I am reading I am

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A few years ago Major League Baseball took steps to increase player safety by changing helmet specifications. The NFL has also redesigned helmets in an effort to reduce the number of concussions. Baseball helmets can now withstand a baseball at a speed of 100 mph without breaking or impacting the safety of the player wearing

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In a couple of hours I am giving a talk entitled The Remarkable Leader’s Role in Motivation. Let me give you the crib notes here. We can’t motivate anyone.  Motivation is internal and a choice. So as leaders our role is to recognize that we can’t motivate (at least not for very long). What we

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On my Remarkable Learning blog I recently wrote about the dangerous and powerful question we can use.  (While you will want to read the post, the question is “Why?”) On Twitter I recently tweeted “Remarkable Leaders are great question askers.”  Which got a number or retweets and comments. In part because of these recent events, and

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On our monthly Remarkable Leadership teleseminar yesterday (titled Remarkable Leaders Create Team Alignment) I was able to answer many of the questions raised by our over 250 registrants.  But I ran out of time before I could answer this one that came in from Colorado: How much/how often is it wise for teams to be

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It is one of those times here at Remarkable House, where there are a number of projects coming to a close.  I sent off the last of the first draft for the training modules based on Remarkable Leadership (that will be available through Pfeiffer in 2010). If you are a reader of this blog or

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I’m not talking about a lullaby.  I’m talking about our productivity! This video speaks directly to all of us as leaders, I’m trying to wake you from your slumber and get you to think about what you don’t think about. It is those unconscious things – the habits, the processes the things we’ve-always-done-that-way that I’m

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I’ve spent a little time recently remembering Walter Cronkite. I was just a kid when he dominated nightly news, but I’ve always felt like Mr. Cronkite was someone with whom I would really like to have dinner. Every report I’ve read, every broadcast I’ve seen and every montage piece produced since his death has included some version

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Since this month in the Remarkable Leadership Learning System we are talking about Innovation and Creativity and the Sears Tower just changed names; it seems only fitting that I write about Richard Sears the founder of Sears & Roebuck. Richard Sears is considered an innovative genius by historians studying the period of the Industrial Revolution.

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