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Daily Deliberation: 5 January 2020
There is a saying that conflict reveals character. This is also true of authority. Watching how someone acts when they are in a leadership role says a lot about their character. I have seen people who burned down every bridge to get more for their team, I have seen those who beat their team into…
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Daily Deliberation: 4 January 2020
Over the years, I continually hear great leaders compare being a leader at work to parenthood. We love our children and want them to succeed. We don’t alienate them or label them as losers when they mess up. They always know they have a place on the team even if they mess up. However, we…
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Daily Deliberation: 3 January 2020
This has been my method of learning something new for as long as I can remember. I wonder if I learned this from studying Bruce Lee or somewhere else, but it is a very effective model. When learning something new, look at what is working and what will work for you. Get rid of the…
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Daily Deliberation: 2 January 2020
I have told my children about the importance of learning since day one. There is nothing more important in life than to learn how to learn. You can’t better your relationships with others, help others, make dinner, or do anything without learning. We all are so eager to learn until we think we have it…
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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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Daily Deliberation: 30 December 2019
This world is constantly changing. Our small offices are constantly changing. Things that we rely on today were not even in existence a decade ago. We may become experts in some area of our lives, but we have to keep learning to remain an expert. I find that spending 15 minutes a day reading about…
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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: 29 December 2019
I was never a credit hound, but I certainly was the guy who wanted to do it all on my own. I thought it was easier to not have to worry about other people and they often just slowed me down. This worked ok as a young Airman and early on as a NCO; however,…
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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…
