Posts Categorized: Leadership

Ending the Blame Game

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Does this sound familiar? You ask an employee, “Why is there a problem with your performance?” The employee answers: “It’s the market” “It’s my pay” “It’s the lack of support you are giving me” “It’s the clients” “It’s the Republicans” “It’s anybody but me” If this conversation sounds like it might have taken place in… Read more »

DISC and Leadership

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Overview Disc Leadership is learning and recognizing your style of leadership and how to make it work to its’ maximum benefit among all types of personalities. Disc Leadership is learning how to most effectively empower others. Disc Leadership is adapting your style so you get the results you want. In many highly successful companies everyone… Read more »

Ignorance to Arrogance

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We come into the world totally vulnerable, unable to walk, talk, read, or write and without the skills to support ourselves. We spend years in school to lose our ignorance (the word has an ugly connotation, but it is just not knowing), training to become capable, productive citizens. A select few become highly skilled at… Read more »

What I Consider as the 3 Top Leadership Challenges

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People either don’t have a vision or their self-image will not allow it to become a reality. Some notable examples of those with both vision and self-image include Michael Jordan, Lebron James, Steve Jobs and Henry Ford. Every one of these examples had a vision that they owned, and, equally importantly, carried the deep belief… Read more »

Bruce Lund on the Beginner’s Mind

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Bruce Lund is the owner/founder of Lund and Company Innovation, a toy design (Inventors of Tickle Me Elmo) and product invention company (www.lundandcompany.com) dedicated to the proposition that toys are profoundly important. Great toys teach, entertain, surprise, inspire and invite inquiry. He began the business on his back porch 25 years ago and now works… Read more »

Learning How To Bench Our Ego

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Speaking leader to leader, we must: Understand the nature of our ego This, to a great extent, determines our natural leadership style. Accept the nature of our ego This means accepting both what you like and don’t like and recognizing what is real. Acceptance comes from the heart not the head. Support our ego right… Read more »

Can You Bench Your Ego?

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If you don’t believe you have an ego you really don’t understand yourself. And, if you don’t understand yourself, you cannot accept yourself. And if you don’t accept yourself you will have trouble creating the support you need to keep your goals alive and well. If learning more about this intrigues you continue reading. If… Read more »

Three Key Important Leadership Questions

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As the leader of your company, department or your life, have you STOPPED and done your first review of the young year? Did You Ask Yourself These 3 Key Questions? Did I present my game plan so those people I need to help me achieve it are clear about what needs to be done and… Read more »

The Game

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Scenario 1: A bunch of 6-year-olds get together to play their first game of baseball. None of them knows the rules of the game, how to run bases, get anyone out, what position to play, how to hit the ball, or what to do next if they manage to connect. The coach is going bonkers! What… Read more »

Important – Last 30 days of This Year + Looking forward into Next Year

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Leader-to-Leader December is usually a very tough month due to fewer working days, the holidays and all the personal things one must do. However, speaking leader-to-leader, here are three things I think we all need to do: Take care of business…all the day-to-day tactical stuff and wow our clients in the here and now. Do… Read more »