In my most recent issue of our email newsletter Powerquotes , I shared this quotation from the legendary management thinker Peter Drucker. People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.There is a tremendous two fold leadership lesson here

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Last week in my Unleashing Your Remarkable Potential newsletter I wrote about four ways to engage your team (reading the article now would be a very good idea). Today I am co-facilitating a workshop for new supervisors called Bud to Boss and we are talking about, you guessed it, engaging team members. It is a topic all leaders

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During our recent 16th Anniversary online party (you can watch much of it at RemarkableCelebration.com), I took a few minutes out from visiting with all of our expert guests to give people a brief tour of my office.  You can see that tour on the video above.   If you haven’t watched it, invest the

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Trevor Harley, is a talented, smart guy.  And he is currently looking for a new job opportunity.  While I haven’t talked to him in depth about it, I know he is doing all of the normal, standard, smart things to look for a job.  But as the email I received yesterday shows, he is doing

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Guest Post from Jenny Pratt . . . . Time Magazine recently conducted this poll: “Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America’s most trusted newscaster?” 9410 people responded and 44% said Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show. NBC New’s Brian Williams was a rather distant 2nd with 29%. Seriously? Jon Stewart is the

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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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It’s no doubt that the Boston Red Sox have been one of the most successful professional baseball teams in Major League Baseball. Since 2004 the Red Sox have been managed by Terry Francona, who has proven himself an exceptional team manager and leader.  Like in any sport, baseball teams don’t become successful overnight. It takes

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With U.S. soccer fresh on our minds from the Confederations Cup I wanted to bring to light the leadership situation that major leader soccer team L.A. Galaxy is currently dealing with, and has been dealing with for some time.  Some preliminary information: 2005: Landon Donovan arrives (serves as captain) 2007: David Beckham arrives (takes over

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As leaders we all know that we are leading people into the future.  And while the future is always murky, and we are never exactly sure what our desitiona will look like, few of us lead the way Amelia Earhart did. 72 years ago today she and her navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific

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