Ron Edmondson

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3 Essentials for Long-Term Success

Ron Edmondson

For long-term success in any area of life you must be: Driven by vision. It’s the aim…the mission…the goal of what needs to be done to determine success as you’ve defined it. Do you want your organization to succeed? Do you want to personally succeed in your career? Do you want your marriage to thrive?

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7 Indicators You’re Not Leading Anymore

Ron Edmondson

Leading by definition is an active term. Obviously, those periods shouldn’t be long or progress and momentum eventually stalls, but leadership is an exhaustive process. In my experience, leaders get frustrated when they aren’t leading for too long a period. Leader, have you been sitting idle for too long?

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Quandary: Confusing Activity with Progress

Ron Edmondson

That may or may not be true at the time, but long-term success always depends more on the quality of activity than on the quantity of activity. In the short-term, you can mask success with an abundance of action, but substandard performance will be discovered in time. So, don’t confuse one principle with another either.

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10 Principles for Healthy Discipline of Children

Ron Edmondson

10 principles for healthy discipline: Goal set first. Discipline done in anger is rarely productive and usually harmful long-term. You should have some value-centered, character-based goals you want discipline to promote in your child. Again, be goal-driven, value-centered. Never discipline in anger.

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7 Indications the Structure Needs to Change

Ron Edmondson

Healthy organizations maintain an unchanging vision they sustain long-term. When the process to get there is so long or difficult it wears you out and you’ve got no excitement left – it may be time for some structure change. When the structure you have now isn’t sustainable long term.

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7 Ways a Team Becomes Idle

Ron Edmondson

Team idleness is a term I use to describe a team failing to move forward towards its desired goals and objectives. The term simply means things have stalled. If a team loses sight of the big picture goals and objective, however, they can lose interest or get off course. They need new goals which further stretch them.

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5 Challenges Adding Structure as an Organization Grows

Ron Edmondson

The structure added should not impede long-term progress – even if it appears to slow short-term growth. The key here is you want to maintain progress over the long-term. Every organization is unique. Any added structure should further enable the completion of the vision, not offer a detraction from it.