Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2017

It was 1994 and I was in Indiana, attending the National Thespian Convention with my high school theater mates. We were losing ourselves in plays and musicals from some of the nation’s best. “Please excuse our mess, we’re remodeling.” This line had just been spoken by the actor playing Mr. Mushnik, a main character in the musical production of Little Shop of Horrors.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 30, 2017

When I consult with independent restaurateurs a common concern many of them voice is: “We just can’t compete with so-and-so across town” Those so-and-sos referred to can be the larger national chains, the popular or trendy new restaurant, or an established location that has secured a strong and loyal clientele. These are the measure by which my clients have set a benchmark for their success, or failure.

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Lead Change Blog

JANUARY 31, 2017

Everyone around the table looked at each other. There was silence in the room. This was the third time they had met off site as a team to do their strategic planning. The facilitator had just asked how they had done on their five goals for the quarter. No one, including the CEO, was willing to own up until Don, one of the young up and coming members of the leadership team, said “we sucked—we didn’t make one of our five goals.”.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

This month we are featuring Instigator David Greer. Known as “Coach Greer,” David previously served as co-owner and president of Robelle, where he traveled the world giving a new presentation every year, building Robelle into the world’s leading provider of HP (Hewlett-Packard) 3000 solutions. He is a co-author of The IMAGE/3000 Handbook, the reference work for the HP 3000 IMAGE database management system.

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Lead Change Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

We are pleased to have Leaders Made Here as our Lead Change Group sponsor for February 2017! Leaders Made Here: Blake’s Story. This month, Mark will be releasing his latest book, Leaders Made Here. This book provides readers a game plan for organizations to create a deep and effective leadership bench. As Mark explains in the book, every organization dreams of having enough leaders.

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