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The BarackBerry and You

You may have heard by now that President Obama has persuaded security folks that he can keep his Blackberry. It seems that while his phone will be limited to top staff and a small circle of friends, he will be able to keep it. One report I read said the “BarackBerry”, with it’s extra security,

Inaugural Lessons for all Leaders

In just a few hours the waiting and talking will be over and Barrack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States. One of the key moments of the day, and perhaps the part most widely reported, will be his speech. While many will watch and comment on the merit of the speech

My Love/Hate Relationship with Process Mapping

Spent some time this week (about 4 hours) building the first of two large process maps. This picture is just a small piece of the process we mapped for the administration of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System. It was a really good meeting (thanks to Andrea and Barb!). We got a lot done in a

A Remarkable Leadership Interview

I was recently interviewed by Brian Oates of Daxle.net for Imprint: Business Author Interviews. In this 15 minute podcast we talked about several important leadership skills including building trust, the important of relationships and we talked about a positive definition of accountability. I wrote this book to be a personal leadership development training tool and

The Remarkable Principle of Persistence

I’ve been thinking a lot about the principle of persistence lately. It has been showing up regularly in my journal, it showed up in my re-reading of the classic book Think and Grow Rich yesterday when I read (emphasis from author): THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR PERSISTENCE! It cannot be supplanted by any other quality! Remember this, and it will hearten

Leadership Advice From a Weight Loss Site

As part of her goal to eat healthier this year, my wife Lori has found a site called Sparkpeople. Let me quote part of the article she received in email on Saturday (read the full article here): Researchers from Kaiser Permanente’s Center for Health Research kept tabs on 1,685 overweight and obese adults (men and

Leadership Communication Lessons From the Last Obama Speech

A couple of days ago President-Elect Obama gave his first speech since being elected. Without getting into the all of the political details, from a leadership communication perspective, I believe his goals were to: 1. Recognize the current economic situation as less than desirable. 2. Create a sense of urgency 3. Outline a plan of

What are You Looking For?

Last night I watched Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty. The premise is that Bruce Nolan (Jim Carrey) is given God’s powers. As you might imagine, this leads to some funny scenes that are all Jim Carrey – as you may have seen Jim Carrey many times before – sight gags, voices and uses of the incredible

Focusing Your Leadership Focus

My article in my newsletter Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential (please subscribe!) this week was titled 5 Leadership Actions to Kick Start a New Year. One of those actions was “find a focus.” As I was thinking about our focus or theme for The Kevin Eikenberry Group this year, I read a post from my very

The Power of Expectations

John Steinbeck, the great author, said it as well as it can be said. It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him. The opposite is true too of course. And this is perhaps the most important, yet most often overlooked key to our success as leaders. If

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