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Do You Know What Farm Kids Know about Leadership?

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Posted in Best of Blogs Series Leadership Development Self Leadership I grew up on a farm. Yep, that’s me on the right, at 5-years old, working with my father. Notice the stripe-on-stripe outfit. I dressed myself that day. And that’s not the only thing I did that day… Farm kids learn responsibility early. I would say I “added value&# as early as age 5.

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Choosing to Trust

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Posted in Leadership Development One of the most honoring gifts we can give someone is choosing to grant them our trust. The choice to grant trust is not the same thing as having a default position of trusting people until they prove they can’t be trusted. Choosing to trust someone requires that you mindfully choose to build trust with [.] Choosing to Trust.

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Accepting the Tension Between Vision and Reality

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Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Earlier this week I was visiting with another Lead Change Contributing Author and Entrepreneur, Shawn Murphy (@shawmu & LeadChange profile). Our conversation quickly reminded each of us that we are not alone as we experience some natural tension between our vision and our reality: How do you balance faith and ownership?

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Compromise: Informed, Intentional and Productive

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Posted in Leadership Development I didn’t get the memo. Did you? You know, the one that says compromise is negative and should be avoided? Somewhere along the line, compromise (defined by Merriam-Webster as a settlement of differences by consent reached through mutual concessions, one of those “playing well in the sandbox” skills my mom taught me) got confused with [.

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The Courage to Be Yourself

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Posted in Leadership Development Leadership Lessons from an Outspoken First Lady The passing of former First Lady Betty Ford on July 8th of this year has received extensive coverage in my local media market because I live in Mrs. Ford’s home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Over the past several weeks, there have been many TV and newspaper tributes to this [.

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Leadership Lessons from the Horse’s Mouth

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Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership Some of the most powerful leadership lessons I’ve experienced have not come from my high school swim coach, my first inspirational boss or any leadership guru at all. One of the first teachers of my most powerful lessons in what makes great leaders great weighed in at just over a thousand pounds, had four legs, [.

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Leaders Affect Training ROI

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Posted in Best of Blogs Series [link] Kevin Eikenberry (@KevinEikenberry, Web) posted a creative, objective and thoughtful post over on Smartblog on Leadership today entitled 7 Ways Leaders Affect Training’s Return on Investment. Kevin introduces the idea that there are four groups of people responsible for the success of any training and he refers to these as the legs of a chair. [.

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