Reframe
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Become a Great Leader
Do You Want to Become a Great Leader? How you think about leadership has a profound affect on your success in becoming a good leader. We all have our individual idea of what a good leader is. Then we assume… Continue reading
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Flip the Switch
A Story I’m going to tell you a story so that you can learn an important lesson without having to go through what I went through to learn it. How’s that for a deal? Then you’ll be able to do… Continue reading
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Is That Smoke Smell Your Burnout?
Are You Burned Out? Here are the symptoms: Everything looks bleak You don’t even have enough energy to care Your tolerance of other people is very low You feel unappreciated You feel like you’re going through the motions It doesn’t… Continue reading
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What If Your Leader Won’t Act?
What if my leader won’t . . . I get this question all the time. My leader won’t make a decision; what do I do? Why won’t the leadership in my company LEAD? Things go up the chain, but nothing… Continue reading
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Promoted! Now What?
Congratulations! You just got promoted. Or you just got reorganized into a new department. Or you just got a new boss. How do you make this a step in the right direction and keep from crashing and burning. Ok, crashing… Continue reading
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Appreciate What You’ve Got
This is all going to end. I know this doesn’t come as news to most of you, but everything we have is quite transient. Possessions (think hurricane/fire/tornado), health, and even life itself. There are two ways to approach this fact. … Continue reading
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Work As We Know It Is Changing–Get Ready!
That Was Then My maternal grandmother went to work when she was thirteen years old at a china factory that made dishes for hotels and restaurants and, eventually, naval ships. She stayed in a rental room with her two-year-older sister… Continue reading
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Get Off Your Butt! DIY Executive Development
I’m going to rant a little l talk to people all the time who are sitting around waiting for their company to “do something” about their development. They know that they are talented (and for the most part, the company… Continue reading
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Don’t Take Your Needs to Work
Basics/Needs/Wants My first exposure to the idea of how my needs impacted my career came from Laura Berman Fortgang’s book, Take Yourself to the Top. Fortgang divides things into basics/needs/wants. Most of us can tell what the basics are–enough food, housing,… Continue reading
