Category: Strategy
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Five Tips For Parents (Without Time Machines)
Gosh- if only we had a time machine. A place where you could go back in time and fix things that went wrong. I love some of the movies that do this. Back to the Future. Hot Tub Time Machine. Somewhere in Time. The Terminator. Go back and fix the wrong and change history. But…
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Talker or Doer?
Are you a silver-tongued leader? I’ve met a bunch of people in leadership through the years. Some were gifted motivators. They knew how to communicate a goal and guide to the finish. They had the ability to paint the picture. A great gift to be able to help folks see the finish line. Yet sometimes…
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Compromise Is The Way To Get Things Done!
Can you REALLY get all that you want? Is that reasonable? I have always been amazed at leaders that have been able to be effective by getting the big things and accepting that not getting the small things is OK. A great leader is able to distinguish what really counts. Unfortunately, the world has embraced…
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Don’t Be A Pac-Man!
Are you getting swallowed up? Do you remember the game Pac-Man? This is going back a bunch of years, but it was one of the first video/arcade games where the Pac-Man travelled the course swallowing up all the cookies as he goes along. Never stopping. Devouring the cookies. The cookies just go away. I used…
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Don’t Do This When People Make Mistakes
We all screw up sometime. Maybe a careless moment or a poor evaluation of the circumstance. There are consequences when mistakes are made. I have been “blessed” many times with being clean-up crew when there is a big mess that needs to be cleaned up. The fact is mistakes are how we learn. I have…
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Photo Friday: The Little Things
I’m traveling again on business. At the TSA check today, I pulled out my toiletries out of my bag and spotted a little note card that my wife put in my bag about five years ago. I was leaving for a men’s retreat and she snuck the note in my bag along with some other…
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Teach, Love, and Peace Will Follow!
This is a guest post from my friend Cristie Powers. She has been serving the homeless, needy, and many others in her neighborhood and her circle of friends for as long as I have known her. Cristie gets it. She knows how important it is to serve others. She is selfless. She is a beautiful…
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Trust is the Glue
The power base of any cohesive and unified team is trust. If you believe in your people and you have confidence in their abilities and decision making, it has a way of multiplying the impact of the team. You are, in effect, advancing your leadership to all of your team members. Leaders often have a…
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Twenty Questions
One of the most common management practices is to enter the office of your report and after a few little icebreakers, begin to fire off the questions: Is the project on schedule? Have you handled the budget overrun? Were you able to engage a vendor yet? Did you fix the issue with the client? And…
Leading by Serving 