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Personal Effectiveness

Leadership: Integrate Both Genders

August 12, 2010

I’ll say it: men and women are different. By many measures—physically, biologically, brain chemistry, shoe choice—we are different. We are the same, too. We like to laugh. We are fierce protectors of those we love. We seek meaningful work to occupy our time. Can both men and women reconcile these two disparate notions and be [...]

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Leaders: Get The Rude Out

July 16, 2010

Given my love of words, I subscribe to Thinkmap’s Visual Thesaurus. Each day, I look forward to an email from Thinkmap’s Word of the Day. (Yes, I’m that geeky.) Today’s word is “erudite”. It means “having or showing profound knowledge”. Don’t you just love how it trips off your tongue? Say it with me: erudite. [...]

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Making Decisions, 100 Years at a Time

June 3, 2010

I’ve been watching reruns of the Ken Burns series The National Parks on PBS. It’s an in-depth look at the birth and evolution of our country’s national park system. Called “America’s best idea” by writer and historian Wallace Stegner, men both famous ( Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir )and lesser-known (Stephen Mather , Charles Young) were [...]

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5 Lessons Learned from a Failed Project

May 29, 2010

Last week, I wrote about a powerful leadership lesson learned when my key project crashed and burned. People Equation reader Nancy asked about the lessons learned from that experience. Indeed, there were several. But first, the story of “The Institute”, the project that gave me both fits and gifts. . . Years ago, I joined [...]

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Giving Back

April 14, 2010

Miss Mulder greets me at the entrance to the kindergarten classroom. I settle into a child-sized chair at the front of a brightly colored floor rug (“The Pretty Rug” as Miss Mulder calls it) and arrange my reading materials. “Good morning!” I say cheerfully to a group of smiling, upturned faces. “Good morning!”responds the enthusiastic [...]

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It’s Only “No”

March 23, 2010

When I was a kid, struggling about going for a new opportunity my mom would say, “What’s it hurt to ask? The worst they can say is ‘no’.” Same message by Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership in his post Career Advice Part 4: You Have to Ask for It. . . . . . [...]

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Office Politics: It’s Personal

February 9, 2010

Our 5-part series on positive office politics, (The P Quotient) is drawing to a close. In this final installment, Jane Perdue looks at personal influence, one of four key behaviors needed for a person to be considered politically savvy in a productive way. Just tuning in to this fascinating topic? Start here for the [...]

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Do You Trust Your Agenda?

February 4, 2010

As part of an ongoing blog series on Positive Office Politics (follow #OPQ on Twitter), Susan Mazza asks “What’s Your Agenda?” In this blog post, she explores personal motivations and how they show up in the workplace. She says: We ALL have agendas. You could say our ambitions, no matter how altruistic or noble they may [...]

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Thank Your Mentor Today

January 21, 2010

Today is Thank Your Mentor Day, which is part of National Mentoring Month. Who knew? Over the years I’ve had LOTS of fantastic mentors, and this is a perfect time to give them a well-deserved shout-out. The list below represents my former work team leaders, company executives, peers and fellow entrepreneurs. Interestingly, none of them [...]

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