General Leadership

MARCH 27, 2015

“In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, & profits. GeneralLeadership.com and the General Leadership Foundation bring Leadership Advice from America''s Most Trusted Leaders to You! Read more at [link]. Unless you’ve got a good team, you can’t do much with the other two.”

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General Leadership

APRIL 2, 2014

Susan is a Proposal Production Manager for Quarterline, Inc and for 22 years has been the steadfast wingman to Colonel Bruce Mundie. “–boss), Stacy (Twitter: @fritzsa69 ) is the wife of GeneralLeadership.com’s Associate Curator, Lt Col Matthew Fritz , who has been deployed to Kabul Afghanistan since August 2013.

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General Leadership

MARCH 5, 2014

As owner and lead consultant at Maiers Educational Services , her passion for literacy and technology to discover creative ways to assist schools and organizations in meeting their learning and productivity goals. Autumn Letendre of the Golden Star USA Foundation.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

However, when we combine several thin layers of timber, and bond them together, the resulting product is strong, durable and very resistant to cracking and warping. Plywood, he reminds us, is made up of several layers of wood that, individually, are not very strong. In a word, the collective pieces of wood are now more resilient.

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General Leadership

MARCH 19, 2014

The short-term gains will quickly give way to an exhausted team and little to no production. At the same time, if the culture is such that everything outside of work is sacrificed due to long hours, the people will fail just as quickly. A good leader is like the fireman on a steam locomotive.

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General Leadership

APRIL 2, 2014

Authors Bill Thrall, Bruce McNicol and Ken McElrath in their book, The Ascent of a Leader , share how environments where grace abounds are characterized by higher satisfaction, increased engagement, improved trust, and heightened productivity.

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General Leadership

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

While there is no escaping the fact we are emotional creatures, our brains have the ability to create new neural connections, affording us the opportunity to respond in more positive, productive ways. That’s the beauty of EQ—where we are today does not mean that is where we have to be tomorrow, next month, or a year from now.

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General Leadership

MAY 19, 2017

They were lessons born of, simultaneously, thousands of years of military tradition and 20th century industrial mass production. As a young officer our formal leadership training consisted largely of learning our military specialty and a few vague lessons about balancing “mission and people.”

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General Leadership

APRIL 30, 2014

Ultimately, productivity suffers. In my unit, we have an individual who moves mountains, but he continually leaves a wide wake and does not give time for adjustment before plowing through once again. This leaves his team reeling and unable to focus on getting the job done.

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General Leadership

APRIL 23, 2014

So live to be intentionally productive. You do not choose the country of your birth. You do not choose the circumstances of your upbringing. Despite this whole realm of choicelessness, you can and do choose how you will live. Quit tracking your time and start tracking your results. Choose to stay true to those things in your plan.

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