June, 2011

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Pass It On: The Imperative to Lead

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Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership We get off the plane in Chicago, my daughters and I, enroute to South Carolina. With a 3 hour layover ahead of us, we take our time. We check the monitors for our connecting gate: A 11. I look up: we stand at gate B-15. It’s a long walk through Midway airport, past all the [.] Pass It On: The Imperative to Lead.

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Seven Strategies for Nurturing Professional Relationships

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Early in my consulting career I started telling people the consulting business is a relationship business. I was right, just a little short sighted. Actually all business is a relationship business. All work is a relationship business. All leadership is a relationship business. And while our focus in this article is on business or professional [.] Seven Strategies for Nurturing Professional Relationships.

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Your Executive Title Does Not Make You a Leader

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In a priceless 1988 interview with Fortune Magazine, Ross Perot boldly confronted General Motors’ corporate culture. He said, “At GM, if you see a snake, the first thing you do is go hire a consultant on snakes. Then you get a committee on snakes, and then you discuss it for a couple of years. The most likely course of action is—nothing…We need to build an environment where the first guy who sees the snake kills it.

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Becoming a Character Based Leader

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Character Based Leadership is the conscious choice to be an Ambassador – To place the greater good, the purpose of the organization and the needs of others above your own desires. It starts with a decision to lead with integrity, the understanding that everything you do is observed and evaluated by others as either authentic [.] Becoming a Character Based Leader.

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Failure! 4 Mistakes Leaders Must Avoid

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Leaders are known to inspire others to act and achieve goals that they otherwise would not be able to achieve themselves. They challenge the status quo and break down barriers to help their constituents achieve their vision. In many ways, leaders make things happen and affect change that moves the needle and transforms the company [.] Failure! 4 Mistakes Leaders Must Avoid.

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Follow the ABC’s of Correction – Affirm Before Correcting

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Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development “There is more hunger for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.” – Mother Teresa of Calcutta “A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.” – Unknown “Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (German Playwright, Poet, Novelist and [.

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Leaders – Lapses in Judgment

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Posted in Leadership Development Over the last month and a half, two things caught my attention, namely the scandal with former IMF chief Dominique Strauss and the precipitous fall of former Congressman Anthony Weiner. Each of them has a long history of service in their respective fields and was well respected by their constituents. What happened?