Tag: leadership skills
How To Keep Your Organization From Becoming A Soap Opera
the one thing you must do to keep your organization from becoming a soap opera is to keep your focus on your most important external mission – the problem you…
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How To Ratchet Up The ‘Current Best You’ In Pursuit Of Mastery
It is not about achieving mastery because if you think you’ve reached the peak, the only way to go is down. It is about being content with the healthy discontentment…
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Why You Should Take A Differentially Good Approach To Business Development
Invest more in prospects and customers that do good for others, help you get stronger at what you’re good at, or are good for you. Invest less in those that…
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Want To Change Someone’s Mind? Change Their Personal Balance Of Consequences
COPE works as a simplifying framework to add discipline at different levels and time-spans by working through context, objectives, priorities, and enablers.
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Simplify Planning So All Can COPE: Context, Objectives, Priorities, Enablers
COPE works as a simplifying framework to add discipline at different levels and time-spans by working through context, objectives, priorities, and enablers.
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The #1 Way To Increase Your Odds Of Success: Do The Homework
Most people get the success they deserve. You get to choose how much to invest in yourself. My advice, forget your entitlements and do the homework required for you to…
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How To Make Equal Partnerships Work. It’s Hard.
Equal partnerships are hard to make work because they are rarely truly equal. Even if they are equal for one brief shining moment, they don’t stay equal. First prize is…
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Relooking At Why You Should Never Make Or Take Job Counter Offers
In my earlier article on this subject, I argued that job counter offers are lame attempts to correct past omissions and are almost never successful. Either people don’t take them…
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What To Do With People In The Wrong Roles
What you should do with people in the wrong roles depends. If they don’t have the motivation, fit or strengths required for your organization, move them out. If they do,…
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