Leadership is the capacity to create something of meaning and align values and actions across groups of people or communities. It is about relationships among people and how they support, complement, and supplement each other and the broader ecosystem. – Aja Couchois Duncan, Susan Misra and Vincent Pan Leadership is about connecting people together to […]
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“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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So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. – Psalm 90:12 Do you have a heart of wisdom? Eleanor Rosch, an eminent psychologist at UC Berkeley, has dedicated herself to the study of knowledge. She has identified that there are two types of knowledge: conventional analytical knowledge and
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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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It was a sunny day in June. I was getting into a canoe with one of my friends for a day of fun on Sugar Creek. The water looked refreshing. We headed down stream until we came to a halt. Our canoe was hitting the bottom of the creek. We could hear pebbles and sand
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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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“Have you been busy?” I find that I frequently get asked this question as a conversation starter. It is similar to people asking, “How are you?” People expect me to reply yes and bemoan how busy life is. We wear busyness like a badge of honor and proof of significance, and then often complain about
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