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Santa the Strength-Blind Leader

Lead Change Blog

The workshop foreman ridicules Harvey (the elf with dentistry aspirations). Of course, you know how things work out…Santa studied his Peter Drucker: The effective executive makes strength productive. Donner rejects his son. Santa ignores Rudolph’s obvious leaping skills because of his nose.

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Create a Strategy for Creating a Strategy

Lead Change Blog

As Peter Drucker said, “The best way to predict the future is to create it.” I set up a workshop and invited the key contributors to my team. Each year, they are challenged by their stakeholders to do better than they did the prior year. How do we best focus on strategy? Visualize the future. What is the purpose of the company?

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Enabling Growth: Promotions Are So Yesterday

QAspire

Enroll today in this immersive workshop to learn about how to leverage the power of visual thinking to collaborate, create, learn and solve. This leads to better connection with ideas, clearer comprehension and better recall. This leads to better connection with ideas, clearer comprehension and better recall.

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Readers as Leaders in My New Book Development

The Practical Leader

In the fall of 2017, I began a book development project by reviewing over ten years of blogs, research, and our workshop/retreat topics to identify core themes and topics most relevant in these turbulent times. Peter Drucker once said “nothing is so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”

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Be a Better Leader – Be More Like Your Heroes!

Marshall Goldsmith

Recently I was at a workshop with my good friend designer Ayse Birsel. Peter Drucker, Father of Modern Management. Peter Drucker – extremely generous, great teacher. Ayse has created a program that helps leaders Design the Life You Love. During the program, Ayse asked us (the participants) to list our heroes. I made my list.

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Delegation Dilemma: Are You Trapped and Overrun by Monkeys?

The Practical Leader

” She wanted delegation skills to be part of the leadership development workshops we were designing for their organization. They’re trapped in micromanaging daily details. They need to be more strategic with their time and learn to delegate.” Delegation is one tip of the leadership iceberg. Falling down the meeting sinkhole.

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28 Great Quotes to Inspire and Manage Change

Great Results Team Building

Peter Drucker. If your group needs help navigating the frustration or challenges that change has created and could benefit from the laughter and lessons that a fun team building event, a two hour training workshop , or an entertaining conference message would provide, I encourage you to contact me !' Anatole France.