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Socrates Was On To Something

July 2, 2010

Both of my kids are really into the stretchy bracelet craze. On the way to the grocery store today, my nine year old son remarked that one of his bracelets looked liked Medusa.  Feigning ignorance, I said, “Medusa? Who’s that?”  He replied, “You know, Mom, the mythological character who had snakes on top of her [...]

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Game-Changers Welcome Resistance

June 11, 2010

This morning, while preparing for the work day, I had a random thought and quickly posted it to Twitter: Props to Joan Koerber-Walker for starting the #BeOriginal hashtag on Twitter. Judging by the number of retweets, I’d say this tweet had legs!  Or should I say “wings?”  To go beyond the 140 characters with that [...]

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Are Your Employees Going the Extra Mile?

June 4, 2010

Leaders, when’s the last time you saw your employees go the extra mile?  Today? Last week?  Last month? The photo at right was taken by Terry P., the Library Media Supervisor at my kids’ elementary school. (Back in the day, we called them “librarians”.) Shortly before this picture was taken, Terry had been doing an [...]

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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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Avoiding Verbal Spam

May 24, 2010

Sometimes a tweet just sums it up perfectly.  Ben Eubanks tweeted:   “Verbal Spam”.  Creates quite the mental picture, doesn’t it? How often are you subjected to verbal “spam” in the workplace?  Probably more often than you’d like.  My first reaction to Ben’s tweet was to imagine people who blather on, saying nothing of value.  [...]

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Redemption

May 23, 2010

Have you ever led a high-visibility project that has crashed and burned? I have and it taught me a powerful leadership lesson. Read on . . . The Back Story Many years ago, shortly after I joined a Fortune 500 company, I was assigned to manage a project called the “Institute”. The Institute was an [...]

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4 Ways to Gain Team Input

April 30, 2010

So I’m sitting at a large round table, talking with a team of eight senior-level leaders who work for a large corporation.  These are smart, sophisticated people, who have both street cred as field operatives and many years’ experience leading various types and sizes of work groups.  We’re discussing how to ensure that our communications [...]

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Author Interview with John Spence

April 20, 2010

  Earlier this year, I discovered the book Awesomely Simple and wrote a book review on it for this blog. I admired the book’s down-to-earth approach and wanted to learn more, so I reached out to its author, John Spence. John agreed to sit down with me last month for an interview.       [...]

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Leadership Carnival Anniversary Edition

April 4, 2010

One of the best things about the blog carnival format is seeing how bloggers employ creativity when summarizing the blog posts.  Each month, I delight in seeing the host’s unique angle. One blogger who always has a unique take is Sharlyn Lauby at The HR Bartender. Sharlyn’s observations about HR, Training and Leadership are always [...]

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Boundaries of Fearlessness

March 27, 2010

In his book Linchpin Seth Godin draws a distinction between the words fearless and reckless. Fearless people, he says, are “unafraid of things one shouldn’t be afraid of.” They push through any imagined “threat” to make a presentation to a difficult customer or conduct a challenging conversation with an underperforming employee. On the other hand, [...]

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