The title of this article is pretty declarative, don’t you think? Actually it isn’t completely true. You don’t have to have a positive attitude to have a leadership role, and you don’t even have to have it to lead. But you definitely must have a positive attitude if you want to lead successfully for an

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I was inspired and convicted when I read Voltaire’s words: Paradise is where I am. Questions to Ponder How close is that to true for me right now? How often is that true for me? Action Steps 1.  Take five minutes and define paradise for yourself  Get beyond a palm tree, some warm sand and a

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I’m an unabashed fan of reading – both as a method for learning and as a pleasurable activity. While I read more than most professionals I know, this post is as much for me as for you – this is something I strive to get better at myself. With these two admissions out of the

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This week’s Resource Recommendation is Mondays at 3: A Story for Managers Learning to Lead by Greg Giesen. I’ve spent a good bit of my last two years thinking about the challenges new leaders face. I co-designed and have been delivering the Bud to Boss Workshops, co-wrote From Bud to Boss and have been coaching

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June 1st was the meteorological start of summer, and with that always seems to come the summer reading lists.   I’ve seen a couple within the last few days, so I thought I would share them with you, as well as sharing a couple of ideas with you too. Summer Sales Reading – Nancy Bleeke has

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I’m in Orlando with most my team athe American Society for Training and Development (ASTD) International Convention.  Last night, our first night here, we went to B.B. King’s Restuarant and Blues Club. Of the many cool things in the place (and how can the place not be cool if it has B.B. King’s name attached to

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Until recently, when people thought of the word team, they thought of a group of people working together in close proximity. This applied to any sort of team – be it sports or work. Of course, the world looks different now. While sports teams still need to compete on the same field or floor, working

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One of the hottest topics in the world of Human Resources these days is succession planning. I’ve had conversations with two executives within the last week that lamented the need to think about succession planning, and both said there wasn’t time to work on it in the short term. While we could talk about the

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The run-up, the hype, the media coverage has been almost unprecedented.  People have been talking about it for months. The media is ready.  Apparently, the viewers are ready. And tomorrow, people around the world will be glued to their televisions, attending viewing parties, and putting their lives on hold to watch one wedding in London. Yep,

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