Ambiguity is defined as doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention. It has been an everlasting predicament when dealing with effective leadership, organizational development, and communication practices. An ambiguous leader isn’t necessarily a bad leader, but he/she certainly isn’t making the job of those he/she leads easy and understandable. In the most basic of terms,
Last week The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced a big change to the Academy Awards process – next year there will be ten nominees for best picture rather than five. The last year that there were more than five nominees was 1943 (Casablanca won that year by the way). While the number of nominees fluctuated between 8-12
This is the first of a series of guest posts from the ten bloggers nominated for Best Leadership Blog of 2009 (place your vote now). Jon Gordon is a speaker, consultant, and author. His book, The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work and Team with Positive Energy, is an international best seller and
This is the final guest blog post from our finalists in this year’s Best of Leadership Blogs competition (make your pick for best blog here) John Baldoni is an exceptional leader in the fields of leadership and communications. Inaddition to being a leadership consultant, he is a coach, motivational speaker, and author. John has written
As leaders we have a love/hate relationship with meetings. We know that when we get people together we have the opportunity for collaboration, creative problem solving and clear communication. For these reasons and more, most any leadership development program is going to include some training on meeting management or facilitation (though in my experience, probably
As a history major, I thought about writing a post about leadership skills from past business leaders, politicians etc. I thought about John C. Calhoun because of his determination, but he had so many flaws and is rather controversial. When I got to thinking about it, most of the great men and women I learned
In this week’s issue of my newsletter Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential, I featured an article called Five Great Benefits to Leadership or Executive Coaching. It delivers on the title and mentioned five major benefits that you will gain from a coach. Some early comments to the article-as-a-blog-post mention that a supervisor can perform these coaching
Some weeks in my mostly-regular Friday Inspiration post I give you something speciifc to think about, or links to something inspirational. Today is different. Today I urge you to look inside yourself. Think about something that inspires you. A song. A quotation. An Accomplishment. A poem. A picture. A place. A person. Once you have
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