Learning
January 18, 2022
How often do employees decide to abandon an organization due to lack of opportunity while at the same time their senior leaders are trying to figure out how to make the business grow? How often are business opportunities lost because the organization...
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January 4, 2022
Henry Ford, the business magnate who founded the Ford Motor Company said, “The only thing worse than training your employees and having them leave is not training them and having them stay!” If you are in a leadership role you have probably heard...
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December 21, 2021
Ted was approaching retirement with trepidation. At 70, he had worked over fifty years, built a successful business, taken few breaks and still went in six days a week. He has few outside interests and doesn’t really know how to relax. Like many en...
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November 15, 2021
I’m a Cathedral Builder. I’m building a cathedral.
Many of us know the story of the three bricklayers: One reported he was laying bricks, the second was building a wall, and the third was building a cathedral. All three knew their task, but th...
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September 13, 2021
The book Disciplined Dreaming by Josh Linker is a great reminder of how important it is to continually challenge your vision. Linker suggests that in today’s competitive environment if you are not tinkering with your business strategy weekly, soone...
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February 16, 2021
In his book The Culture Code, Daniel Coyle shares insight into creating successful cultures. In 1998, Harvard researchers followed sixteen American surgical teams as they learned to perform an innovative procedure. The researchers wanted to identify ...
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November 3, 2020
If you are interested in effective leadership, you know the importance of coaching. It seems obvious, but it’s one of those skills that tend to stay theoretical, because it is hard to start putting it into practice. Leaders can sometimes let their ...
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October 26, 2020
Lessons learned in the business setting can have relevance to our personal lives. Recently, a client reflected on the most important lessons learned during a leadership development program. It turned out that asking questions and listening to under...
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October 13, 2020
Do you run your life on Lombardi time?
Vince Lombardi, the legendary NFL Hall of Famer, was head coach of the Green Bay Packers in the 1960’s. His Packers team won the first two Super Bowls. Today, the two teams fortunate enough to make it to th...
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October 5, 2020
You can be a better spouse/partner, parent, child, friend, or community member. Here are seven leadership traits that can have a big impact not only on your professional life, but on your personal life too!
1. Be authentic and live your values
Know...
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