Category: Leadership Skills
Transformational Leadership: Big Changes to Big Things
Al Carey once explained the concept of big changes to big things to the P&G alumni group. As he described it, No one ever notices little changes to little…
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Find Ways to Disrupt Yourself
Sometimes being a transformational leader means you have to transform yourself. This often requires finding ways to disrupt your own current thinking. Sometimes your team can help you do this. …
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It’s not worth the effort even to try to get managers to care about onboarding
They just don't care about another "HR" process. But they do care about delivering results. So, focus your efforts there, with onboarding as a tool. I learned the ABCs of…
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What Choices Direct Actions
"Strategy" may be one of the most mis-used business words around. Just as many teenagers seem to punctuate their sentences with "like", "you know", "what I'm trying to say", and…
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Value Creation vs. Value Extraction
Maurie Cashman has some interesting thoughts about linking employee goals to an organization's exit strategy. The quotes he's pulled from Lou Dubois' piece in Inc, get at goal setting. I…
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Lead Forward, not Backward
Lead forward in the direction of goodness and not just away from a bad present. It's so easy to trash the past or the present that many get stuck doing…
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Actors Must Actually Act
Too many words. Not enough action. Too many tales "told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing". (1) It's not enough to know what matters. It's not…
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Learn, Contribute, Decide, or Waste Time in Meetings
Arguably all anyone does in meetings is learn, contribute, decide, or waste time. Some tips on managing the first three to minimize the fourth: Learn: This is about the transfer…
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Silence Speaks Volumes
The Supreme Court regularly declines to hear cases. These choices send very powerful messages about what they think is less important. You can't say some things are more important without…
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