Category: Leadership
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Daily Deliberation: 15 January 2020
Until we realize what we don’t know, we can’t learn anything new. When we start a new hobby or read a book on a new topic, we have no problem admitting we don’t know about it. However, we have a lot of trouble admitting we don’t know something about an area we are an “expert”…
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Daily Deliberation: 13 January 2020
We set out as leaders to make our teams better. We want to improve the organization overall. However, many of us do not take the time to improve ourselves first. Our team can only go as fast as their leader. Invest in the betterment of yourself and then use that to serve your team.
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Daily Deliberation: 10 January 2020
I am a firm believer that most of the world’s issues are the way we treat others. People go out of their way to impress the boss, the cool kids in school, the neighbors, and anyone else we look at favorably. However, we ignore the person sitting alone at lunch, we ignore the peer who…
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Top 3 Books of 2019
Reading a good book is food for our minds and our souls. Although, I admit a book does not have the power to change you, they do have the power to plant the seeds in your mind and light the fire within to drive you to change. This past year I was fortunate enough to…
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Daily Deliberation: 7 January 2020
I am not a fan of personality tests because I think they place labels on us that we allow to define us: “I am an INTJ; I am a Green; etc”. However, I do love the insight they provide in a nonthreatening way. Some people will actually reflect on what they learn and try to…
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Daily Deliberation: 1 January 2020
We made it to another year and a whole new decade. Still hard to fathom it being the year 2020. I can still remember how it felt when we all hit Y2K and how we imagined in the year 2020 there would be robots walking the streets along side of us and aliens in line…
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Don’t Be Difficult
Have you ever had to deal with a difficult person? It is so frustrating and even harder when that person is an A-Player on the team. Are you ever that person to your boss? Recently, I was reading a book where a story about how Dwight D. Eisenhower had such a situation. His top General,…
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Daily Deliberation: 28 December 2019
This is one of the most under appreciated notions. We become fearful of taking on new opportunities or doing something that takes us out of our comfort zone. However, every single time that we do, we learn something new that sets us up for some future role. I once was tossed into a retention manager…
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Daily Deliberation: 23 December 2019
Do you agree that respect is earned? When I first started my career, I thought this was true on an individual level. For example, “he takes care of his people, he has earned my respect.” However, if you think about it, there are two different types of respect. We respect people out of fear for…
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