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Why “Always Be Hustling” Is Bad Leadership Advice

Why “Always Be Hustling” Is Bad Leadership Advice

Updated August 2022 In the mid 1990's, a regional communications company launched a billboard advertising campaign that implored people to "Never Stand Still!" The underlying message was that to be successful, you must perpetually be on the go. God forbid you be...

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Keeping An Opportunity Mindset

Keeping An Opportunity Mindset

Opportunities are the venues where people can try themselves, test themselves, better themselves, and even find themselves. The leader’s job is to match the opportunity to the person and to help the person, and the organization, exploit the opportunity for all it’s...

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Answer The Holy Question

Let's say you decide to start being more courageous at work, home, or life in general. That's great! So where do you start? You start by answering the "holy question" -- what do you want? A lot of people can tell you what they don't want, but they aren't really sure...

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Opening The Thought-Shifting Door

Opening The Thought-Shifting Door

In addition to providing people with tangible, skill-developing work opportunities, open-door leaders need to know how to shift people’s thinking. Real opportunities can be found in convincing people to become imaginative by freeing them from narrow, negative, or...

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Leadership Is Freakin’ Hard

Leadership Is Freakin’ Hard

Congratulations! You've become a leader! At last, your ideas will be listened to, valued and heeded. People will finally take you seriously. Now your impact, influence, and income will grow. Ah, the life of leader. Issuing orders. Imparting wisdom. Developing...

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Getting Real In The Bubbily Boo

Getting Real In The Bubbily Boo

My kids are my greatest teachers. Here’s a quick story to illustrate one powerful lesson they recently taught me. My youngest son, Ian, started singing a song that he had heard on the Disney channel, “Down in the Bubbily Boo.” The song was cute and catchy, so the rest...

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Taking A Velvet Hammer To Time-Wasting Meetings

Taking A Velvet Hammer To Time-Wasting Meetings

I was speaking with a friend recently who is at his wits' end about how his weekly staff meeting runs. He is already doing a lot of things right. He creates and circulates an agenda in advance. He emphasizes the start and end times of the meeting, and why it is...

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