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Look!! Up in the Sky!! There’s another one!! (Part 2)
Make a choice: Choice 1: If you’ve got only 30 seconds, draw your own conclusion about why these 2 pictures appear in a blog on leadership. Choice 2: Skip Part 1, dive into Part 2: Look, there’s another one! Choice 3: To get the background for Part 2, that includes recommend actions for the…
Read MoreLeaders Come From All Parts of the Orchard
People who want to be leaders often ask me: “Do I have the right personality to lead?” My answer: There’s no personality type that designates someone a leader. This doesn’t mean you ignore your personality, preferences and foibles. It means you become aware of them so you can lead yourself first, then others. To gain…
Read MoreSchool’s Always In for Leaders
It’s Fall. School’s back in session. I’m taking an online class in strategic planning. Ordered my used books from half.com and downloaded my ebooks. (I’ll see if I can resist printing them.) With pencil and highlighter in hand, I opened HBReview’s “On Strategy” to read my first assignment. When I got to page 5, yellow…
Read MoreDo you need coaching or training (or both)?
About once a month, someone calls asking: “Do you do trainings?” I love these calls. My first response is something like, “Yes, I do trainings. Tell me more about what you need so I can see if I can deliver it.” That response seems to go better than me blurting out: “How effective do you…
Read MoreBe “Neo”: Take the red pill
If you’re exhausted by being connected 24/7, this message is for you. If worried you’ll be seen as a slacker if you don’t answer every email within 14 minutes, this message is for you. If you’re tweeting, liking and pinning multiple times a day because you don’t want to miss anything, then my message is…
Read MoreThe Art of a Successful Partnership: Staying Engaged After Saying “I do!”
Ahh, February, the Love month, host of Valentine’s Day. The day millions of us express our love with flowers, chocolates and those sugar hearts with goofy sayings. The day thousands will pop the question and become engaged. If you’ve been engaged or just plain head-over-heels in love, I bet you can remember how great you…
Read MoreGot a Goal? Get Focused!
Yogi Berra grins: If you don’t set goals, you can’t regret not reaching them. Novelist Rosalyn McMillan advises: When you want something in life, you have to focus. Both good points. But what happens when something blocks our progress? Do we focus on the goal and ignore the obstacle? Or, do we focus on removing…
Read MoreAre you measuring the past or the future?
What you have your attention on gets attended to. Peter Drucker reminds us: “People think they measure what they get. In fact, they get what they measure.” What are your measures getting you? Are the numbers numbing your staff or inspiring innovation? Do the measures maintain a comfortable zone or create the possibility for the…
Read MoreHow to drink the future from a fire hose: Don’t defend. Open wide.
I admit it. I am a “people-r-great” geek. Most everything I read, hear and watch filters through my coaching lens: How can this help someone be a strong, creative leader in uncertain times? How will this have someone see she has a choice and that there’s an alternative to feeling victimized? How can this shed…
Read More“Go ahead! Do it your way!”
When anyone said this to me when I was kid, I also heard what they didn’t say out loud, but clearly was part of their message: “… and see if I care if you do it wrong and fail and waste your time and look goofy, and, and….” Whew, thank goodness, those days are over,…
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