“Regardless of who you are or what you have been, you can be what you want to be.” – W. Clement Stone Do you feel like you are constantly busy and yet not being productive? Do you feel like you work hard, but at the end of the day feel defeated? Tom was always busy […]
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“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.” – Winston Churchill Every day can seem to have a long list of expectations towards our productivity. Just look at your “to-do” list! Work colleagues, clients, customers and family members all seem
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Recently I was meeting with an executive and his leadership team. One of his team members discussed a personal change that he has been focusing on for his leadership development. This leader admitted that he often is driven to achieve and accomplish tasks to the detriment of investing in relationships with others. At the end
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“I believe I have the popular reputation of being a story-teller, but I do not deserve the name in its general sense, for it is not the story itself, but its purpose, or effect, that interests me.” – Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln is a highly influential leader in history, who was a master at communication,
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“Without feedback there can be no transformative change.” – Brene Brown When you think about a transformative time in your life, what was involved? Often when people speak of defining moments in their lives, it involves them facing and growing through a great challenge. You may be familiar with a recent popular book and movie
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“Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge.” – Winston Churchill Mary sat across from me feeling perplexed. She had read my article on “How to Flow in Leadership.” She is a passionate leader with a clear vision, but she was feeling depleted. She knew that if she continued on the road she was on, she
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“Discernment is not something you do; It is something you receive.” How many decisions do you make in a day? Researchers at Cornell University have found that we make over 200 decisions just about food in a day. We face decisions all the time. Some decisions are choices we face every day, such as what
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“The best in art and life comes from a center, something urgent and powerful, an ideal or emotion that insists on being. From that insistence a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that’s very hard to do.” –
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In my last article, I discussed the power of leadership communities. Leadership communities move from being a short sighted team that is driven by tasks to becoming an enduring community of shared significance that has lasting impact. Leadership communities work as a network rather than as a hierarchical organizational chart. Collaboration is part of the
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Choices, Choices, Choices! – Our lives are filled with choices. Just walk into a grocery store and you can be overwhelmed by choices with decision making. I had a friend who lived in a third world country providing relief work. When she returned to the US, she was caught off guard by the culture shock
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