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Want to Save Time and Improve Team Productivity? Build Trust
I have been working with several leaders and their teams recently on the topic of building trust. For the most part, the teams I work with do quite well on this topic, and they are highly productive...
Technology and Leadership Development
We are quickly approaching a new decade. The year 2010 is just around the corner, and I don’t know why, but I always feel like a new decade brings about thoughts of change, growth and improveme...
Paul Azinger Leads the USA Ryder Cup Team by Breaking the Rules
We hear it all the time…if you do things the way they’ve always been done, you’re bound to get the same results. Well…Paul Azinger showed true leadership recently at the Ryder ...
Thain’s Swiftness Praised in Wall Street Journal
Great article today in the Wall Street Journal: Thain’s Swiftness Praised; Fuld’s Hesitation Faulted. This article is worth going out and picking up a copy of the WSJ for September 16. ...
Great Speech by Michelle Obama
I watched this presentation two times through before I posted it, and I have to say, it is one great speech by Michelle Obama. She focused on family and her personal life as a woman, wife, mother, si...
Pixar…A Peer Driven Process for Using Creativity to Solve Problems
I was having a conversation last week with an executive. His company was having a bit of a conundrum with one process (although a major process) in the company, and I said “Listen…you hav...
Ten Daily Habits for Developing the Art of Leadership
Many people are born leaders, yet the ability to lead is actually an art and an amazing collection of skills which can be learned and sharpened. The following top ten daily habits will help you and/or...
The Movie “21″: Leadership Lessons We Can Learn From Ben Campbell and the Game of BLACKJACK
Many kids grow up wanting to play for the Red Sox or shooting hoops and making millions for the NBA. In the movie “21″ Ben Campbell (played by Jim Sturgess) grew up wanting to go to Harv...
What Leadership Skills Will Leaders Need to Strengthen in the Future?
Earlier in July, we had a great mega call with some of the world’s top business leaders and authors including Michael Gerber, Kimberly George, Michael Port, Andy Wibbels and a host of other grea...
An Absence of Risk is an Absence of Leadership
This morning on the Today Show they are discussing a new report out that demonstrates people viewing Obama as the riskier candidate over McCain. For some reason in the news, they are painting risk as ...
Teleclass Tomorrow Night, July 23, with Kim George: Abundant Leadership: Building a Company of Joy
Teleclasses AQ Community Call Wednesday, July 23, 2008 7:00 PM Abundant Leadership: Building a Company of Joy A Conversation with Bea Fields Join us for a very special AQ Community Call with author a...
Does a Leader Need a Book?
You do not have to have a book, but you do have to have a remarkable product to introduce your business to your customers on a massive scale. A BOOK can certainly do the trick. I believe tha...
The Transfer of Power — Giving Permission to Lead
I happen to be heavily involved in a book about followership as it pertains to leadership and one of the principles we’ve been discussing lately is that those in the followership role have an ob...
How do I stay inspired about my company when my competitors are beating the pants off me at each and every turn?
Being in business today is tough, and the competition is fierce. Every day, I talk to corporate leaders who feel like they are stuck and swimming against a very strong current while their competitor...
The Absence of Leadership
The Absence of leadership is often felt by a company, but not recognized. I was recently talking with a friend in a high up position with a national non-profit and she is stuck in an environment that ...
How do I stop myself from losing my edge when every day I feel like I’m trudging through quicksand?
I have never met a true leader who is not concerned about losing that leadership edge that is so necessary in today’s world. Technology, education and the global economy are changing with lightning...
Jack Fields Wins N.C. Amateur
My son, Jack, won the N.C. Amateur yesterday, and I want to say “Congratulations Jack. You have worked for a long time to make this happen!” He showed true leadership, and we are all v...
Sometimes…!
I recently had the pleasure and privilege of spending three days with a book client who, of her own volition, flew in from back east to work with me because she wanted to devote some seriously focuse...
Ten Critical Questions to Answer to Drive Innovation
Radical innovation is going to be a critical component in a leader’s toolkit in the future, and this does not mean that you “try to innovate” over a week-end brainstorming retreat. True innovati...
Teleclass for Monday, June 14 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern: EDGE: A Leadership Story: The Future of Business From the Minds of Ten Top Professionals
Teleclass: EDGE: A Leadership Story: The Future of Business From the Minds of Ten Top Professionals Date: Monday, July 14 Time: 7:00 P.M. Eastern What happens when you get ten top professionals on a c...
Leadership is seeing the better solution
You’ll see from a few posts ago that we were having major issues with our online shopping cart. Our design division director was working hard to learn what he needed to learn to create a working...
Leadership is calling a spade a spade
The buck stops with the leader. Ultimately, they are accountable for the performance of the entire system. When something is not working, people often make excuses or avoid taking responsibility a...
Teleclass for Monday, June 14 at 7:00 p.m. Eastern: EDGE: A Leadership Story: The Future of Business From the Minds of Ten Top Professionals
Teleclass: EDGE: A Leadership Story: The Future of Business From the Minds of Ten Top Professionals Date: Monday, July 14 Time: 7:00 P.M. Eastern What happens when you get ten top professionals on a c...
Leadership is taking care of yourself
My wonderful coach, Roger Dewitt pressed me the other day. Now that my business is working and the divisions of the company are growing, I have realized that I need to control less. The insanity of ge...
What Good Are Exit Interviews? by Trina Roach
Trina Roach has a great blog: Creating Tomorrow. I just love the name! She has a particularly good post from June 7 on exit interviews. This is an area where I find most leaders and managers strugg...
How do I live as an authentic leader without destroying my credibility?
Most modern leaders share this concern. In a day and age where everything is public or can become public in a matter of minutes, they always want to ask how they can be true to who they are and maint...
Leadership is about acting, not reacting
I have to give credit to Hillary Clinton for dictating her own path. She has never allowed her campaign to be ruled by what the media or the public think she should do; she has always called her own s...
Leading is not just about solving a cllient’s pain–consider your employees
I have to say that lately, myself and my staff are loving that we all work from home. We have nearly two dozen people who freelance for our company and they do some from the confines of their own res...
An Attitude of Leadership
Yesterday, we were on a call with our client Dr. Kay Vogt, a family business advisor, working on the storyline for her upcoming book, The Family Business. Our discussion centered around something tha...
Leadership is a Solution Business
Probably the most important key to effective leadership (in my somewhat ridiculous world of entertainment and publishing) is looking up from the daily mess of creation to see the big picture and recog...