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The Power of Consistency
I shouldn’t be writing this. Really. If I had any sense, I wouldn’t be writing this. I wouldn’t be writing anything. Why? Because it’s late at night on Sunday, and I have an early flight tomorrow...
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Why Your Team Isn’t Buying What You’re Selling
Do you ever wonder why your team isn’t as excited about that bold, new project as you are? Have you ever been disappointed when your motivating pep talk (the one you practiced for hours) falls on deaf...
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Why Should Your Team Follow You?
In his book Start With Why, Simon Sinek contends that the foundational, underlying question you must answer in order for your business to thrive is “Why?” Why are you in business? Why are you called to...
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How Diversity Can Drive Your Team’s Innovation
Most teams that I work with claim that they would like to be more innovative. And all of them would like to see better bottom line results, such as growth in market share, and better client...
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Are You a Brilliant Original, or Merely a Copy?
Let’s start with a 2-part quiz: Question 1 — Which would you pay more for: an original Van Gogh, or a copy (even a very good copy) done by a third-year art student? Question 2 — Switching now to your...
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How Would You Respond to This Challenge?
It’s officially spring in the Northern Hemisphere. Typically, spring is a season associated with rebirth and renewal. It’s a chance to look at the world through fresh eyes. So today, let’s use spring...
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Are You Setting Your Future Leaders Up For Failure?
You’ve got a star performer in your organization. Let’s call her Amanda. Amanda is brilliant at her job. She’s so good, in fact, that you begin to think, “Amanda is fantastic! Imagine how valuable...
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Are You Killing the Creativity in Your Business?
“Creativity” is one of those things (like its close cousin “risk-taking”) that nearly all leaders love to hail, praise, and rhapsodize over. So why is actual creativity in the workplace so rare? It’s...
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The Real Secret to Coming Up With a Great Idea
Oh, to be the person who comes up with “the great idea”! Solar power! The artificial heart! Potato chips that stack in a can! Great ideas are everywhere, and yet they always seem to be the brainchild...
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Are You Lying About Trusting Your Team?
Do you trust your team? I don’t mean “trust” in the sense of, “I trust that my team members won’t sell our company secrets to the Russians,” (although that might be kind of important, depending on your...
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Why Aren’t You Hearing Your Team’s Best Ideas?
Why are the people on the frontline such dullards? I mean, really, these people couldn’t come up with a creative idea if their jobs depended on it. Thank goodness you don’t expect too much from them,...
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A “Basic” Trick to Boost Your Team’s Creativity
Imagine this: There’s a crisis looming in your business. [You: “Why do you have to be so negative, Bill?”] [Me: “Fair point. Let’s reset.”] Imagine this: There’s an opportunity looming in your...
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Is This the Key to an Interesting Life?
“Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.” ~ Samuel Johnson If there were a “magic bullet” trait for living an interesting (and interested) life, I would...
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Why Leaders Need to be More Like Shakespeare
Leaders should be intelligent, right? I mean, it doesn’t always work out that way, but that’s kind of the ideal. We want our leaders—community, corporate, political—to be intelligent. But what kind of...
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Are You Playing to Your Strengths Every Day?
Yesterday I was the closing keynoter for a conference of credit union leaders. One of the speakers who was on before me mentioned what was, to me, a startling statistic. He said that the average credit...
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5 Ways to Get a Creative Idea
Are you stuck in a creative rut? Do you need an idea—now—but nothing’s coming? Don’t worry, your creativity is still there. Your brain is just taking a little “creativity catnap.” Here are a few ways...
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How Simple Is Your Vision? Great! Now Make It Simpler!
The leader is frustrated. “I don’t know why I’m having such trouble getting the team to buy-in to the company vision! It couldn’t be simpler!” Then he shows me the company vision. It’s five paragraphs...
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Learning Leadership from a Bad Boss
Most of us have experienced bad bosses at some time in our lives. Maybe you’ve had one in the past; maybe you have one now. Maybe you were one in the past; maybe you are one now. So, for most of us,...
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The Question You Need to Start Your Day With
Does this scene sound familiar? It’s the end of the day, and you’re sitting at your desk. As you shuffle some papers around for the hundredth time, you think to yourself, “Well, I got pretty much...
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What Are You Reading?
Quick quiz: What do all of the following people have in common? Bill Gates Warren Buffett Mark Zuckerberg Elon Musk Mark Cuban Oprah Winfrey Here are some possible answers: They’re all financially set...
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