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The Dangers of Helping: Are you too Helpful

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The goal of helping is enabling, not more helping. Train people to help each other, BEFORE they… Continue reading → Over-helpful leaders are over-worked and under-appreciated. Help in ways that strengthen competency and don’t create dependency.

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7 Ways to Rise Above Pie in the Sky

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Long-term goals are delusions, if you can’t produce results, now. Leaders deceive themselves, and others, with pie-in-the-sky goals.

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Build the Plane While it’s in the Air

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Outcomes, deliverables, and noble goals infuse leadership skills and techniques with meaning. [.]. Communication skills are irrelevant apart from meaningful outcomes. Define the future first, then determine and develop the skills that take you there. Leadership skills are best learned when needed.

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