Career development
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What You Believe About How the Organization Works is WRONG
If you are the CEO-Founder of the organization, nothing I’m going to say applies to you. If you are anyone else, it probably does. We all have beliefs about how organizations work. For the most part, at least some of… Continue reading
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Great Leaders and Their Paradoxes
I have always loved the concept of paradoxes. A paradox is a self-contradictory proposition. Paradoxes are the embodiment of complexity. Great leaders are full of them. Extreme Self Confidence v. Humility: I don’t think you can be a leader without… Continue reading
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Lead from where you are
Tops, Middles, Bottoms Are you the same kind of leader at work that you are at home? at church? with your friends? If you’re like most people, probably not. Why is that? Most people have a picture of the “power… Continue reading
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It’s the End of First Quarter. How Are Your Resolutions?
Most of Us Make Resolutions The website, The Statistical Brain, says that 45% of us make New Year’s Resolutions and 8% of us succeed with them. Thirty nine percent of folks in their twenties succeed, compared to fourteen percent of… Continue reading
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My Generation Is Best, The Other . . . Not So Much
That OTHER Generation is IMPOSSIBLE!!!!!!!! One of my favorite team building exercises is to put people of the same generation together and have them describe the other generations. I have them make a list of the characteristics of the other… Continue reading
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So you want to start your own business . . .
Get Ready! I talk to a lot of people whose life goal is to start their own business. For most of them, it’s a “some day . . . ” kind of dream. You can’t start too soon. There are… Continue reading
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I Hate My Boss!
Unless you’re independently wealthy, you probably have to figure out how to deal with a boss you hate–at least for a while. Pretty much everyone has this problem at some point in their career. The good news is that you… Continue reading
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What If . . .?
You’re 18 and Can Do It All Again What if when you were 18 years old, you were given a list of all the major things that you would accomplish between the age of 18 and your age now. All… Continue reading
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Which Comes First, Success or Happiness?
One of my favorite coaching clients recently told me a story. She said that her brother went into a florist and while checking out, spotted a framed Master’s or Doctorate diploma in Engineering on the wall. He asked the store… Continue reading
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Rot at the Top
Is All Corporate Leadership Rotten? When I taught leadership, I always discussed Manfred Kets de Vries’ (see his book, The Leadership Mystique) theory that when organizations go down the drain, it is usually because of rot that started at the… Continue reading
