Tweet The Challenge One of the greatest challenges I have felt as a senior leader is to regularly communicate the big picture vision I own in my head. Of course,…
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Tweet In my experience, people typically tend to hire someone they can easily get along with, relate to and with whom they will enjoy working. That often translates into hiring…
Tweet All the leadership examples I post on my blog come from real life situations – either mine or yours, collected through years of leadership experience. I get asked frequently,…
Tweet Every organization has a life cycle. In fact, over time an organization will likely be many separate cycles. I have written about organizational life cycles before. But I have…
Tweet Being a leader isn’t easy. With every decision a leader makes someone is happy – and someone is not. One often misunderstood reason leadership is challenging is the tension…
Tweet I’ve seen it so many times. Most likely you have also. It is tragic. A leader can be doing everything else right and yet one flawed mindset overshadows and jeopardizes…
Tweet In this post I’d love to consider the heart of a leader. Someone asked me recently what I primarily look for in the hiring of a staff position. I…
I remember reading once that the can opener came almost 50 years after the tin can.
Wow, had you ever read that?
Here’s a way to discipline yourself to increase creativity on your team or in your organization…especially during times when money is tight.
When you are ready to make a purchase, ask yourself this question:
In my experience, many of the new ideas for our organization…and for my life…have come while I was doing something else.
Usually when we are working on planning a service it’s when the best ideas for a service develop…
Often when I’m working on a blog post, I get several new ideas for a blog post…
Look at most great inventions and they were discovered while doing something…many times while doing something totally unrelated to what was discovered…
That’s because…