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A Single Source Resource For Leaders?
This week, I would like to take the opportunity to ask for your help. I always love the lively discussions and insightful questions that emerge from the different leadership challenges we cover, but...
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Commit To An Intentional New Year
As the New Year approaches, I find myself reflecting on both the challenges and the incredible opportunities that have presented themselves over this past year. As I look back, there have been both...
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Intentionality
Before we can act with intentionality, we have to think with intentionality. The reality is, most of us do not. More often than not, we catch what we pursue – not what we envision. Contrary to some...
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Intentionality: Cross-cultural Communications, Part Two
While cultural misinterpretations can make for a good laugh amongst friends, the same mistake in a business setting can permanently damage your reputation with colleagues, employees… or clients. As the...
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Intentionality: Strategic Communications, Part Two
Whether consciously or unconsciously, experience teaches us that verbal communication is just as likely to conceal as it is to reveal. Because of this, strong nonverbal communication skills are...
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Intentionality: Organizational Politics, Part Two
Last week we discussed the basics of organizational politics – this week we’ll talk about some intentional strategies that you can leverage to facilitate your success. Whether your perception of...
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Danger: Control Cataracts, Part 2
As outlined in Control Cataracts (Part 1) , Control Cataracts is a disorder that occurs in a leader’s vision. It happens when someone becomes desperate to maintain control at the expense of the...
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Problems Without Solutions… I Think Not!
Recently I was at the World Business Forum. As I listened to what some of the world’s top business leaders considered our most significant leadership challenges, one sentiment stood out for me above...
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The Innovation Inhibitor
This week, after challenging a client to take a different perspective on organizational change, I was reflecting on a commentary I heard from Gary Hamel on how Leadership has not fundamentally changed...
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The Vine: Dynamic Interdependence
For better or worse… we are all extensions of the networks we have built – or the lack thereof. Those who are devoted to the intensive cultivation of the vine will prosper and grow, while those who do...
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You Can Run, But You Can’t Hide
Every organization is comprised of people with different worldviews. It is inescapable – recent statistics indicate upwards of 90% of business’ have a culturally diverse workforce. What does this mean...
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Customer Service In Context: Do Unto Others…
We all know, without a shadow of a doubt, that without customers there simply is no business – you will cease to exist (from an organizational perspective, of course!). The customer is King, but...
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If You’re Not Innovating, You’re Deteriorating
Innovation is the catalyst to growth. Innovation means doing something different, smarter or better that will make a positive difference. Innovation applies to every aspect of your business – you can...
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Are You A Chief Collaborator?
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead You understand that your organization is a system...
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What Is Global Anyway?
I was recently speaking at a conference and I was asked about a term that is near and dear to who I am – Leadership Across Boundaries & Borders. You will see (or hear) it in almost everything I do...
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Keys To Success: Embrace Complexity
Globalization and rapidly changing technology continue to sweep the world. All organizations work across boundaries and borders of one type or another and face significant challenges as they seek to...
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Keys To Success: Context and Corporate Culture, The Final Act
We hear about vision, mission statements and values often enough, but why are they so important? Similar to Alice unsuccessfully trying to open the door to Wonderland, you must have the right keys to...
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Winning The War: Three Key Battlefields
Innovation. Integration. Motivation. Three simple words… however, implementation is extremely complex and rarely executed. In today’s challenging environment, leadership has never been more...
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Winning The War: Three Key Battlefields Part 3
Innovation. Integration. Motivation. Once last time, three simple words… Each of these is extremely complex and rarely executed. In order to win the war for global domination, we must engage both...
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Successful Strategy
I was in a meeting with a senior executive recently, when he shared his concern that the processes and approaches the company is using to develop the corporate strategy may not take the business...
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