Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Your remote team is the future of your business. Not long ago, the workforce was entirely dependent on an office. This point was the only place where the employees could access vital job-related files and collaborate as a united team. However, everything changed with the advent of the Internet. With every passing day, there are fewer and fewer reasons to sustain an office administration.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2016

If a movie had the role of “bar” in it, Sloppy Joe’s would win the Academy Award. It is situated in bar heaven—on Duval Street in the middle of Key West, Florida. It is dark, smelly, and loud. It is no diner with a bar; it is a bar with an attitude. Its walls have no doubt eavesdropped on countless propositions, provocations and predictions. The cracked mirror over the bathroom sink has reflected many inebriated promises never kept.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Mom told us breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Andrew Carnegie told us that “if you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” There is some debate these days over whether breakfast is so important, but there is no debate about goals. I am not saying that you don’t know that goals are important.

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Lead Change Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In yesterday’s post , I shared eight things I know now, that I wish I had known when I had started my career. Today, I am sharing seven more: Be Interested in What’s Right, Not Who’s Right. I’ve seen too many talented people along the way focus their energy in all the wrong places, most commonly by obsessing over winning arguments. Intellectual Integrity is much more important than perceived Intellectual Prowess – which by the way is not automatically prescribed to the winner of an argument.

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DECEMBER 21, 2016

I’m blessed enough to get the opportunity to speak at universities all over the country and the question I’m most often asked by students is, “What do you know now that you wish you knew, back then, when you started your career?”. I thought I’d share a response to this question in an attempt to serve any of the younger, or younger at heart, Lead Change readers.

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