Servant Leadership Tip #1 – The Discipline to Follow
Paul Miller, a UNC quarterback and business man once described discipline as “remembering what you want.” That fits with my view that...
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Jun 22, 20142 min read
Employee Engagement Tip # 2 – In Praise of Right Ups
While working with a client on raising employee engagement recently, I encountered the following trend: Out of 250 days of work,...
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Nov 15, 20132 min read
Profits Thru People – Action Steps – Part I
Employee Engagement Gallup’s Survey of the American Workforce highlights the benefits of focusing on employee engagement. Moving...
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Jun 13, 20122 min read
Joyfully Losing Our Net Worth and Finding Our Real Worth
Follow me on this: Houses have never appreciated, they have inflated. When you sell your house, try buying a nicer house for the same...
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Mar 21, 20122 min read
Becoming Patient Zero
Yet having a keen interest in leadership and motivation, I wonder about spreading to without what is not first spread within....
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Mar 10, 20122 min read
Remarkable Confluence on Leadership
Driving home last night John Maxwell in his latest Success Magazine CD interview explained how his real joy comes from bringing out the...
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Mar 4, 20122 min read
Metric Failures
KPI taught me a lesson I still apply today. The less you understand about a problem the more information you request. The more you know...
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Feb 19, 20122 min read
A Balanced Life and Steve Jobs
I just finished reading Walter Isaacson’s Steve Jobs biography. Having lived in California is the 70’s and 80’s I found his covering of...
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Jan 27, 20121 min read
The 80/20 rule or why the rich get richer
Part of my job is to bring quality training to my local business market. For our tourist based market, the Disney Institute’s one day...
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Oct 26, 20111 min read
Meditating Out of the Recession
Price still has a unique role in our market. We continue to connote price with quality. American’s are in love with Apple and Apple’s...
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Sep 7, 20113 min read
Business Coaching, Who needs it!
Why is something that is so obvious so hard to grasp sometimes? When I mentioned casually to group of friends watching a golf tournament...
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Aug 24, 20113 min read
Edwards Deming and the Family Business
I recently was turned on to a 1984 video by W. Edwards Deming, the guru of Japanese quality and innovation. In the Five Deadly Diseases...
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May 17, 20114 min read
The Cart Before the Horse: When Not to Innovate
Innovation is hot. Everywhere is another book, publication, blog or daily tweet on the need to innovate, how to innovate, why to innovate...
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Mar 29, 20114 min read
How Many Light Bulbs Does It Take to Change a Person?
I love what I do and hope you do as well. Whether it’s coaching, teaching, facilitating, or consulting, the opportunity to help people...
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Mar 11, 20113 min read
The Story of Learning
Lately everything I read or see is related to the power of a story. Dan Pink, who links motivation to achievement, wrote a blog about...
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Mar 9, 20112 min read
What Is a CLO and Why Should I Care?
Can your employees individually relate their job to your mission statement? Do your consider knowledge critical to your success? Do you...
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Dec 20, 20102 min read
Chop Wood, Carry Water
“Before enlightenment, chop wood, carry water, after enlightenment, chop wood, carry water” is an old Zen saying regarding work. When...
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Nov 2, 20103 min read
Team Chemistry – How Do I Maintain It?
What makes John Wooden such a unique coach? Why did he abruptly retire at the height of his success, and what happened to UCLA afterward?...
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Oct 27, 20103 min read
Team Chemistry – What Is It and How Do I Get It?
Today Auburn is the #1 team in the BCS football poll. Two years ago they had a losing season; last year they started strong then faded in...
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Sep 21, 20102 min read
This Is the Day for Phone Rage and Coach Wooden
“Things turn out best for the people who make the best of how things work out.” John Wooden noted that years ago, and I am going to try...
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