Tag: strengths
Overachievers And Underachievers: Feed One. Starve The Other.
you can help people achieve and over-achieve – but only if they’ve got it in them to start with. If they don’t, move on.
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How To Light A Fire Under Your Team When Things Are Going Well
Three Steps to Motivate a Team in Good Times Lessons for others taking over a team doing well: Get clear on what’s going right and the organizational strengths that have…
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Lessons In Complementary Leadership From Disney And Coca-Cola
Most leaders are unbalanced. They are relatively stronger in some areas than others. The secret to making them more productive is to let them play to their strengths, while at…
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Twenty Four BRAVE Frameworks for a Happy New Year
Happy New Year! My gift to you is 24 BRAVE frameworks that can help make your coming year happier. Headlines here. Click through to the original articles (on a combination…
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Can you do the job? Strengths
There are only three questions in a job interview, getting at strengths, motivation, and fit. See The Only Three Interview Questions, The New Leader's 100-Day Action Plan or the companion…
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Lead from Strength and Compensate for Gaps
Most of us are unbalanced. We are relatively stronger in some areas than we are in others. It's important to know yourself so you can lead from your areas of…
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Thankful for the American Culture
During a conversation about the bleak state of the US economy at the last CEO Boot Camp, one of the non-US CEOs was clear that he was betting on the…
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In praise of recruiting briefs
No one who ever worked in marketing at Procter and Gamble would ever consider letting anyone develop any sort of advertising without a clear creative brief. We should hold ourselves…
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