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Management Improvement Carnival #91
The Curious Cat Management Blog Carnival provides links to recent articles to help managers improve the performance of their organization. A Mindless Worker is a Happy Worker “when people are given a chance to participate in creating something good, solving a problem, and play a role in adding value through the...
Improving Software Development with Automated Tests
Automated software testing is a mistake proofing (poka-yoke) solution for software development. The way automated testing works is that software code is written that tests the software code of the application. This automated testing code test that business rules are correctly being followed by the code in the application. So for...
Improving Education with Deming’s Ideas
This interview with David Langford discusses how to improve education using ideas from Deming. Along with Alfie Kohn, David have long been the learning and management experts I find most valuable. I have long remembered is his idea that he was the CEO of his classroom. On hearing Deming...
Management Improvement Carnival #90
The Curious Cat Management Improvement blog carnival provides links to recent blog posts for those interesting in improving management of organizations. Leader Standard Work Should Be…Work! by Mark Hamel – “A lean leader’s standard work, among other things, may require him to check a particular work cell once in the morning...
Get Rid of the Performance Review
How Much Do You Hate Performance Reviews? by Bob Sutton Deming emphasized that forced rankings and other merit ratings that breed internal competition are bad management because they undermine motivation and breed contempt for management among people who, at least at first, were doing good work. … If you want to read the...
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, Fulfillment and Flow
“After a certain basic point, which translates, more or less, to just a few thousand dollars above the minimum poverty level, increases in material well being don’t see to affect how happy people are.” The speech includes, the first purpose of incorporation at Sony: To establish a place of work where engineers...
LeaderCast
5 Characteristics of a Bad Life Coach
There are lots of life coaches out there and it can be difficult to choose the right one. So here are 5 characteristics of a bad life coach to help you weed out the ones that will not do you any good....
Effective Leaders Make Decisions
A major part of being a leader is making decisions. In fact, some would say that it is key to being a leader...
In anything a leader does, he or she must inspire those around them. In the toughest situations or the darkest of nights, a leader who is still courageous and inspiring can give new hope to followers....
5 Steps to Follow to Make Great Decisions
Follow the five steps and the example and you should be able to start making better decisions today....
5 Basic Leadership Skills Every Leader Needs
Here are five basic leadership skills every leader needs. If you can work on even just one of these at a time, you will become a much better leader and be able to lead more effectively and efficiently....
Solomon Says: A great Game for Christian Parents | Episode # 70
Simply read a proverb correctly for a "True" proverb or misplace a key word with an opposite different word for a "False" Solomon Says....
lastingleaders.com
Why accountability partners don’t work
Most of the men I work with who are battling sexual temptation have a long history of failed attempts at overcoming their struggles. One of the most common strategies people in churches use is having an accountability partner. I have nothing against accountability partners … they just don’t work. Listen to...
New study suggests that loneliness may be contagious
Loneliness is an important issue - and personal challenge - for many leaders and the people they are leading. For this reason, I was especially interested in the results of a recent study on the topic. What follows are highlights from a recent article about the study. A new study suggests...
New study shows abuse rates of Catholic priests even higher than expected
As if the reports and suspicions weren’t bad enough, the reality points to a problem even more pervasive than people thought. I’m going to quote from the childprotectionguide.org website, with some added thoughts of my own in italics along the way. (The article I’m linking to here has the source...
Facing our love / hate experience with God
I am increasingly convinced that spiritual inauthenticity is a major roadblock for many Christians in general, and especially Christian leaders. When we try to convince ourselves to believe something we don’t really believe, or when we struggle with thoughts and feelings about God that we “shouldn’t have,” we get stuck....
How to create a leadership development strategy
For the past three and half years I have been in a new role - conducting workshops and coaching pastors and men in recovery - and outside of the senior pastor leadership role, I’ve found myself reflecting on some of the challenges pastors face. One of the most striking things...
Why churches struggle to help sexual strugglers (and what to do about it)
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The Trump Blog
Questions to Ask Before Listing Your Home with a Real Estate Agent
by Tina Merritt It's common knowledge that today, 87% of buyers are searching for homes on the internet. They are still using real estate agents to buy the homes; however, buyers are going to the internet before and during their home search in greater numbers each day. Now, let's say 87%...
Deducting Travel Expenses for Investment Properties
by Tina Merritt A tax deduction often overlooked by investors is the cost of travelling to their own properties as well as the cost of travel when looking for new properties. Travel expenses connected with the management of your real estate investments are deductible if they are ordinary and necessary. A few...
When a Tenant Violates the HOA Rules...
by Tina Merritt A few years ago, a client of mine was relocating overseas. When I asked about what his plans were for his rental property, he said, "Oh, I'm not worried about it. The tenants are on a multi-year lease and the HOA will keep them in check". Well, that...
Does Your Property Have Defective Drywall?
by Tina Merritt Last week, the Department of HUD and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission released a statement offering guidance on identifying problem drywall in homes. Drywall from China has been found to cause corrosion and air quality issues in homes where it was installed. The guidance consists of 2...
by Richard Johnson Donald Trump recently stated with a laugh at a speech to his membership at Trump National Golf Club in Westchester "with the coldest winter ever recorded, with snow setting record levels from Virginia all the way up and down the coast, the Nobel Committee should take the...
Pink Slip
Polly want a lawsuit? Polly want a lawsuit?
Well, our love affair with gigantic banks is never going to get old, is it? The latest smooch to an American home-owner was delivered by Bank of America to one Angela Iannelli of Gibsonia Pennsylvania. And this was no chaste peck on the cheek. No, this was hot-lips...
If you were Steven Roth, would you say this out loud?
Anyone who's been in downtown Boston in the last couple of years will be familiar with the giant hole in the ground - surrounded by partial let's-preserve-the-past remnants of grand old facade - that has replaced one of our grand old department stores, Filene's. The hole is surrounded by...
Cowboy turned tech wrangler? Maybe, maybe not.
Since March is apparently Cowboy Month at Pink Slip - c.f., last week's post on Cowboy Ethics - I was just dee-lighted to see a header in the WSJ Career Section entitled "Cowboy Turned Tech Wrangler." (Access to the full article may require a subscription, pardner.) Yippee-ki-yay! I just...
The opposite end of the spectrum
Even as I advance into old(er) age, my nose remains resolutely pressed against the creative life window, somewhere among hoping, assuming, and planning for another career of some writerly sort. So I was interested to read the obituary of "Patricia Travers Violinist Who Vanished", in Sunday's NY Times. ...
And you thought your job as a chicken plucker was terrible - try chicken sexing
In the midst their quarterly technology section, The Economist included a small article that most readers no doubt sped by to get to the more über-techno stuff - 6 Million Dollar Man prosthetics, self-healing wireless antennas made out of liquid metal. With my hunt and peck method of scratching around...
Cowboy up: in Wyoming, "cowboy ethics" are more than just lore, they're law
Well, as a child who grew up watching every Western TV show there ever was on a black and white Philco, you don't need to tell me a whole heck of a lot about cowboy ethics. Cowboys wore the white hats of my childhood, pardner. I watched them...
Tim's Blog
There is a very real risk of me sounding like an old fart, but this whole “free is the future” thing is undoubtedly the dumbest debate since the “branding gives you bigger orgasms” thing from last year. Chris Anderson’s new book, “Free: The Future of a Radical Price” which is...
I just left this comment over at Bob Hoffman’s blog who wonders why people take marketing and ad people for idiots. I understand what he means and have suffered the ‘retarded eight year old look’ from accounts people as I talk about wacky things like creating cohesion through word of...
I visited some clients of my wife’s the other day who have the most incredible garden. Apart from the fact they bought and renovated a twelfth century castle here in the west of France (which is a big feat) the most impressive thing is the garden around it. The castle...
Roger Cohen from the New York Times uncannily summarized a conversation I had yesterday (except far more elegantly). Yes, English has gone global and no, differences between cultures have not been tapped out like nails which poke up a little too far in the parquetry. Read on… A poet friend, Vincent...
The problem with being right too early is that you pass for a idiot. Ah, the insufferable conversations with the geeks and new gurus about the net worth of Facebook. I almost long for that time machine I invented when I was eight so I could re-live the stupidity of...
Why do you want to make money?
If you have a business then ask yourself this question – Why do you want to make money? It sounds dumb but if your answer is not clear or if you answer is “to make more money” well, this is kind of dumb too. Businesses are just people working together in...
The Corner Office
7 Myths About Being Unemployed
Unemployment and jobless claims are at multi-decade highs, so congress proposed a $100 billion "jobs" bill exclusively for local government employees and paid for by the deficit. Forget that. If you're facing unemployment or business is down, like for most of us, check this out....
Critical Success Skill: Knowing When Someone is BSing
Probably the most critical but unheralded business success skill is knowing when someone is full of it, full of themselves, BSing you, or even fooling themselves. Life offers thousands of options and opportunities. Detecting BS is key to narrowing the field and making the right choices....
Rant and rave at employees? Throw gadgets at the IT guy? Act out childhood issues on unsuspecting coworkers? If it doesn't get you fired, that behavior will likely land you in anger management class. But nobody knows if they do any good and I'm not sure anyone cares....
Aspiring Leaders: Stay Focused on the Big Picture
The less you get yourself all worked up about workplace politics, who makes what and all that, and the more you focus on taking risks, meeting goals, making numbers, and pleasing customers, the faster you'll get into the big leagues and the bigger you'll make it once you get there....
Soon a customary rite of spring will be upon us. No, not the start of the baseball season or the March Madness of college basketball. I’m referring to proxy season, in which companies disclose top executive pay and those disclosures get followed by the customary laments about how much money...
Women: Do Male Leaders Have Boundary Issues?
A ridiculously high percentage of male leaders have boundary issues. It almost seems like a prerequisite for the job: male - check, narcisist - check, boundary issues - check. I'm no shrink, but why are men, not women, so willing to cross moral, ethical, and legal boundaries?...
Crossderry Blog
Here’s an old column I’ve meant to comment on for a while. Dan Woods’s Jargon Spy is almost always a good read, and his take on The Myth of Crowdsourcing punctures some of the more cherished notions of social media and its power to create. He goes right for the...
Week 10 Performance Report — Operation Dunk 2010
As you may have guessed by the absence of performance reports, Operation Dunk 2010 was stalled for a bit. I allowed the demands of work and family to get in the way, but we’re back on the beam. Luckily, the damage wasn’t too great, as I have remained active. Weight —...
Why can’t we plan for leadership?
Glen Alleman asks “Why is it so hard?” and focuses on one of the most difficult line items for IT projects to fund: project/program management, including contract planning and controls. I’ve had varying success in positioning these resources, so I’m still stumped. Arguments that worked for one initiative failed for what should...
My in-laws just gave me the latest Malcolm Gladwell book – What the Dog Saw — and I’ve been grazing in it the last few days. The book is a collection of his New Yorker pieces; he also includes a few key updates and notes that bring the articles up-to-date. I just...
I don’t get over to John Agno’s Coaching Tip blog often enough, though I did make it over the other day and found this timely post: In Stressful Encounters, Rewire Yourself to Listen. He points out that: In a stressful encounter, you may have less than two minutes to gain control...
Another pitfall of the Golden Rule
Long-time Crossderry readers may remember my concerns about the Golden Rule. Michelle at Mission Minded Management — a blog I just found via The Daily Reviewer — re-states the pitfall of the Rule well here: One of the greatest life lessons anyone can learn is that WE ARE NOT ALL THE SAME....
First Friday Book Synopsis
Make Yourself Irreplaceable – Again – Every Day (reflecting on Godin’s Linchpin)
From the script for the movie Titanic: ANDREWS Five compartments. She can stay afloat with the first four compartments breached. But not five. Not five. As she goes down by the head the water will spill over the tops of the bulkheads… at E Deck… from one to the next… back and back. There’s...
Too Busy to think about (improving) Your Business? — Join the club
I had a conversation with a few business consultants this week. Their world is a world of: finding clients, challenging clients, guiding clients. It is a never-ending process, and their competitors are many – with the largest competitor being “no-one.” The more I listened, the more I realized this: the average...
Adam Werbach on “Nature’s Simple Rules”
In Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto, published by Harvard Business Press (2009), Werbach identifies and then discusses what he characterizes as “Nature’s Simple Rules” as a basis of strategy and execution. They are: 1. Diversity across generations to support long-term species survival. 2. Adapt and specialize to the changing...
Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson on embracing constraints
Here is a series of brief excerpts from one of the chapters in Rework, co-authored by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson. It was published by Crown Business/Random House in 2010. * * * “I don’t have enough time/money/people/experience.” Stop whining. Less is a...
Book Review: Strategy for Sustainability
Strategy for Sustainability: A Business Manifesto Adam Werbach Harvard Business Press (2009) As Werbach explains in the Introduction, all companies have the opportunity to formulate and then execute a strategy that will enable them to avoid severely damaging if not fatal problems such as those encountered within the last 12-18 months by major...
Follow Me on Twitter to Get a Quick alert about each new blog post
I usually tweet a link to each new blog post, by me, and all of our blogging team members. (If I am out speaking or teaching, I may be a few hours late). So one way to learn what is up on our blog pretty quickly is to follow me on...
Leadership Turn
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Do you get a lot of spam? Mine is well filtered, but I still have to glance through the junk file to be sure that nothing important was inadvertently caught. If spam is any guide it seems that Americans sex and meds dominate the American psyche. Recently I noticed this subject line:...
I came across the following last week, Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny. and it got me thinking about cause and effect; where things start and...
Seize Your Leadership Day: A Reason to Think
I spent over an hour going through my article collection and found nothing that seems worth sharing; I seem to have used up all the good stuff on this week’s Saturday Odd Bits, check them out, especially if you’re interested in Microsoft, and be sure to subscribe via RSS or...
Merry Christmas! I hope you’re in your jammies, sipping mimosas or good coffee, knee deep in wrapping paper and that Santa was good to you. Since there are just four days left of Leadership Turn I thought you might enjoy seeing another feature you’ll be able to enjoy at MAPping Company Success. mY...
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Santa…
Today is the last Leadership’s Future post in 2009, but the feature will continue every Thursday at MAPping Company Success (to avoid missing it subscribe via RSS or EMAIL). Please click to read today’s Leadership’s Future. ‘Twas the day before Christmas I sat down to write, but nothing came—writer’s block was my...
The Glass Hammer
Why the Paycheck Fairness Act is Crucial
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law by President Obama on Jan. 29 and according to the organization AAUW, a charitable membership organization dedicated to advancing equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, philanthropy and research, it restores the long-standing interpretation of...
By Melissa J. Anderson (New York City) Yesterday, theglasshammer.com hosted its second Women on the Buy-Side networking breakfast and panel discussion. Nicki Gilmour, founder and CEO of theglasshammer.com, began the event by explaining that the purpose of the gathering was to draw together top women in the investment management industry to...
Is Norway working? The case for women on boards
By Elizabeth Harrin (London) Norway is considered one of the most progressive countries with regards to increasing the number of women on boards – thanks to it being an early adopter of legislation to force companies to recruit women to the boardroom. It sounded like a great idea to improve...
5 Reasons NOT to Take a Promotion
By Elizabeth Harrin (London) You are offered a sideways move, either in your organisation or to transfer to another company. Should you take it? While it might be tempting to hold out for a promotion, don’t disregard the possibilities presented by taking a lateral move. We asked five experts for their...
The New Female Breadwinners – Celebratory Boon or Involuntary Boom?
By Gigi DeVault (Munich) If Betty Friedan first showed women through a “room with a view” in the 60s, a Pew Report released this month has ever so gently closed the door to that room as well. The Pew report, The New Economics of Marriage: The Rise of Wives, explains why...
New Accenture Report Released Today – The Power of Resilience
By Tina Vasquez (Los Angeles) Anyone’s who’s ever had to struggle or overcome extreme hardships knows the power of being resilient; the importance of being able to bounce back and keep trudging onwards. According to a new study by Accenture, resilience – or the ability to overcome challenges and turn them...
Great Leadership
5 Little Things Make a BIG Difference as a Leader: Part 3: A Little Dose of Humility
This is the 3rd of a 5 part series about some of the little things you can start or stop doing that can make a big difference on how you are perceived as a leader. Maybe you’ve seen the beer commercial where the guy just can’t seem to say the...
5 Little Things That Make a BIG Difference as a Leader - Part 2: Listen Up!
This is the second part of a five part series about the little things a leader can do that could make a BIG difference in how they are perceived as leaders.I have bad news and good news for all of you leaders and aspiring leaders. You decide which you’d rather...
March 7 Leadership Development Carnival - Academy Awards Edition
It's Sunday night, and it's time for the Leadership Development Carnival - Academy Awards Edition!Every one of these posts are Oscar-worthy.Opening Musical Extravaganza:Art Petty sings and dances with a glamorous showgirl on each arm with Leadership Caffeine-Learning to Lead in the Project-Focused World posted at Management Excellence.Best Supporting Actress:The nominations are:Janna Rust in Self...
5 Little Things That Make a BIG Difference as a Leader Part 1: Show up on Time
This is the first of another 5 part series about some of the little things you can start or stop doing that can make a big difference on how you are perceived as a leader. BTW, some of you may be looking for my next installment of “Leadership Lessons from...
Leadership Development for “The Little Guys”
I received the following comments on my recent “Best Companies for Leadership” post:“The list of things that make these great companies for leadership development is impressive. How do you apply these lessons to small business. A staff of five or eight or even 25? The opportunity for promotion and growth...
Brain Exercise: The Top 10 TED Talks
Do you ever just take the time to learn about something that may have nothing to do with your immediate job or personal life?I never used to. I’ve never been a learner for the sake of learning. I naturally want to gravitate towards what’s “practical” and highly relevant. If you’re like...
Bird's Eye View
Brandversation British Airways Style
I'm impressed with the British Airways folks. In the interest of transparency, I should tell you that British Airways is involved with my firm's Inner Circle program. Makes sense, since their tagline is "Experience what we know. Business is done......
Baby Talk: Can You Market Grownup Products to Toddlers?
Meet Ellie, a fabulous baby I know. She's not yet one and already walks and says a few words. She knows that people hold devices to their ear and appear to talk to them. What's more, they look at them......
Do Mannerists Have Anything Original To Say?
I'm lucky to live within steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. It is a privilege for which I am grateful and have to remind myself, on occasion, about just how lucky it is to live......
Get Your **** Together A La Professor Galloway
I've talked here numerous times on the dangers of entitlement, especially when exhibited by new hires fresh on the job, by new neighbors fresh in the neighborhood and now I see there is yet another frontier to discuss: the new......
I did not watch the Oscars last night. Nor did a number of people I know. (Who are all the people who made up the "millions of people" audience?) It felt like a bad use of my time, since I......
I've got a young friend who has applied for his dream job: it's with a company in the manufacturing business and since he's still waiting to hear from them, I'll not describe it more fully. Let's not jinx his chances.......
Forbes.com: Managing news and reports
Airport Security: Bin Laden's Victory
We have paid hundreds of billions of dollars in lost time and productivity....
Leadership Is Something You Decide To Do
A conversation with the psychologist Robert Jeffrey Sternberg....
New research suggests that ads which complement online content will work--but not if they rouse consumers' privacy concerns....
Why Forecasts Fail. What To Do Instead
Forecasting has advanced significantly in recent years. But managers need to understand what they can and cannot predict and develop plans that are sensitive to surprises....
The New Guerrilla Philanthropy
How do you give away $100 ''creatively''?...
The Apathy Myth
When you meet with someone, bring something to the table
One of my most valuable leadership lessons came from Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.). It was a humbling and humiliating lesson, but one I still carry with me.In the Nineties, I made my living speaking about HIV/AIDS prevention with my good friend, Joel Goldman. By the mid-part of the...
Don't be a bystander, but don't be a pain in the ass, either
Everyone's telling you not to be a bystander. I've been talking about it for years in my confrontation program, and one of our newer speakers, Mike Dilbeck, is becoming an anti-bystander crusader. It's a good and timely message. In a world of detached, communicate-only-by-text-message citizens, we need...
You are always wearing your letters
You're interested in joining our fraternity? We'd love to have you. You're the type of person we look for: committed, enthusiastic, a leader. We think you'll do great things here, and we hope that we'll open some doors for you. You will make lifelong friendships, and...
We all make mistakes. If you're a high profile student leader, there is a solid chance that something will happen that will knock you squarely on your ass. Your ego will be in tatters. Everyone will be angry at you, or at least delighting in your misstep. You'll...
Let's say there are a group of people in your organization who are the root of a problem. Maybe it's a group of critical former officers, or a couple of friends who band together to cause drama at social functions. Maybe it's all the juniors who feel disconnected...
The Situation: which students are getting attention on your campus?
There's a great article in this week's Time about the longevity and impact of reality TV. It's difficult, honestly, to find someone who isn't a fan of at least one show. Your mother loves The Amazing Race. Your aunt has strong opinions about The Celebrity Apprentice. Your...
Management IQ - BusinessWeek
Toyota: Sorry Seems to Be the Easiest Word
Akio Toyoda, President of Toyota Motor Corporation, has apologized for his company’s debacle surrounding design flaws with various car models. Should we praise someone who does what he or she is ethically required to do?...
Davos: Recovery, Uncertainty and Governance
My initial impressions of Davos 2010 was that the three dominant themes were recovery, uncertainty and governance. The early focus was on the speed and pace of recovery; the uncertainties of when to end the fiscal stimulus packages, the ongoing trade imbalances and the threat of currency revaluations combined with...
I’m writing this blog as I come back down from Davos 2010: literally, in terms of the journey back down the mountain to Zurich; metaphorically, in terms of coming down from the high and inevitable buzz one gets from this unique event....
Davos: Business Leaders Focus on 5 Sustainability Themes
As I write from the World Economic Forum, having attended an event with some of the UN leadership and CEOs from various sectors, I’m further reminded of the growing prominence of sustainability issues in both core business strategy and mainstream geo-politics. This was was barely thinkable even five years ago....
Global Problem Solving? Stephen Harper Defends the Status Quo
Although Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s speech on Thursday in Davos was received well, many of the delegates that I spoke with told me they thought Harper’s vision was too blinkered....
Davos: Climate Change, Transport and Logistics – The Road Ahead
It is clear that even despite the challenging outcome of Copenhagen, climate change is still very much front and center at Davos as global/political, civil society, and business leaders contemplate the road to Mexico and beyond. ...
Ed Batista: Executive Coaching & Change Management
In my capacity as a Leadership Coach at Stanford's Graduate School of Business, I work regularly with groups of MBA students whose purpose is to help the members learn, become more self-aware (and more aware of others), and change their......
My father-in-law, Rich Wright, was diagnosed with cancer last November, shortly before my last post here, and he passed away one month ago, on February 5th. Over the past three months, I've had neither the time nor the inclination to......
David Rock on Neuroscience, Coaching and Leadership
My interest in neuroscience and its implications for executive coaching, leadership development and other processes that involve behavioral change led me to a talk by David Rock at Oracle last week, sponsored by the South Bay Organizational Development Network (SBODN).......
James Baldwin on the Ugly Side of Life
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. - James Baldwin My colleague Trina Roach tweeted this quote the other day, and it caught my attention. (And I'm not alone--a......
The SharpBrains Guide to Brain Fitness
My interest in neuroscience and its implications for executive coaching, personal development and professional effectiveness led me to have lunch recently with Alvaro Fernandez, co-founder and CEO of SharpBrains, a market research firm that focuses on the application of neuroscience......
Is it OK to cry at work? Bret Simmons had a great post yesterday on crying in the office which prompted some further reflection. I've had many clients, students and colleagues cry with me in my work as an executive......
Lead on Purpose
In many careers, applause and acknowledgment are awarded soon after success happens. CEOs are praised for their vision. Top salespeople are rewarded with high commissions. Innovative engineers are recognized for their inventions. The rewards for applied skill and hard work come quickly after the work is complete. Then there’s product management… — The...
How do you effectively develop trust in your organization? Trust is built over time as you follow through with the promises you make. Your credibility — the quality or power of inspiring belief — grows in much the same way. The principles of trust and credibility are tightly linked and build...
Everyone wants to succeed, but where does success start? We all have a deep desire to move forward and see our dream become reality, but how do we make it happen? The venerable “Dean of Personal Development,” Earl Nightingale, put it in these terms: “Success can be defined as the progressive realization...
This evening I had the opportunity to listen to a speaker who had just returned from a humanitarian service trip to Haiti. He told amazing stories about the trip, including heart-wrenching accounts of the devastation caused by the recent earthquake. He spoke about the director who organized the trip and...
Leaders at successful companies focus significant time and resources to hire the right people. The money and effort they spend pays big dividends as the company progresses and matures. The companies that excel at hiring the right people seem to take this one step further: at all levels the leaders...
“How we go about doing the things we choose to do or are called upon to do is what makes a leader the right leader.” In his book The Right Leader: Selecting Executives Who Fit, author Nat Stoddard (with help from Claire Wyckoff) investigates the complex topic of assuring smooth executive transitions, with...