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Disaster… What Will You Do?

Page Cole — Wed, 22 May 2013 17:30:22 +0000

Posted in Light Your World Uncategorized

It was the worst case of déjà vu ever. A massive and fierce tornado bearing down on city of over a million people. We were here as a state, in this same city, only 14 short years ago. Could this really be happening again? And still the tornado came to Moore, Oklahoma. In the wake [...]

Willing to Exchange Our Lives for Your Freedom (Part 2)

Chery Gegelman — Wed, 22 May 2013 11:31:31 +0000

Posted in Community Involvement Light Your World Self Leadership

Have you ever considered this…? “A Veteran, whether active duty, discharged, retired, or reserve, is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The United States of America, for an amount up to and including his or her own life.“ Unknown Did you know that many studies [...]

Innovation: a Case for Entitlement (really!)

Deborah Mills-Scofield — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:30:17 +0000

Posted in Light Your World

http://www.innovationexcellence.com/blog/2013/05/13/innovation-a-case-for-entitlement-really/

Isn’t it amazing how we complain about our federal government’s lack of guts to do anything about the entitlements and yet we do nothing about it in our own organizations. Have you looked at your own organization lately? I’ve looked at a bunch of them – and the sense of entitlement, the ‘right’ to not [...]

Why Your Employee Survey Is a Waste of Time

David M. Dye — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:21:54 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development Workplace Issues

Imagine Their Surprise “The whole department has quietly agreed never to mark anything but good scores on the damn thing!” I was talking with Joan, an employee of a large medical service provider and this…this was her ultimate response to the last round of employee surveys designed to improve morale and motivation. What’s worse, her [...]

The gift of our leadership is the gift of our callings

Tal Shnall — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:15:26 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development

The leaders of tomorrow will embark on a self-discovery journey. They will listen to and act on their callings to fulfill the lives of others. We all share an innate drive for meaning, guidance and purpose. We want to lead significant lives that matter and worth remembering. Lives that can make a memorable difference, lives [...]

Lean Germinates: The U.S. Pioneer of Lean Spreads the Knowledge

John Bernard — Fri, 17 May 2013 17:41:52 +0000

Posted in Workplace Issues

(This is the third in a 12-part Series on the Origins of Lean in the U.S.) To get the Omark revolution underway, in early 1982 we bought the first 500 copies of Shigeo Shingo’s A Study of the Toyota Production System that were imported into the U.S. Because it was the first edition, it was [...]

Leadership Haiku: Why Do They Follow You?

Mary C Schaefer — Fri, 17 May 2013 11:34:09 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development Self Leadership

“I see you ahead of me. You see me behind. Where are we going today?” Whether you subscribe to the notion of leaders having “followers” or not, let’s consider this: What do others trust your leadership, i.e. why do they literally follow your lead? Someone has to be first. Someone has to have a [...]

The reverse commencement speech to leaders

Jon Mertz — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:33:28 +0000

Posted in SmartBlog for Leadership

http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2013/05/16/the-reverse-commencement-speech-to-leaders/

We are entering the time of commencement speeches. Some may go viral while others will evaporate as soon as the words are spoken. It is an important time, nonetheless, as a younger generation enters the next phase of their life and leadership path. Read more here on SmartBlog.

Dallas Lead Change Meetup

Jon Mertz — Thu, 16 May 2013 19:06:55 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development

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About a year ago, we started a local lunch group to discuss character-based leadership topics. It takes time to gain momentum and patience helps. As we look to our meeting next week, the group is really starting to take shape. Erin Schreyer (@ErinSchreyer) and I met through Lead Change and started the group. We call [...]

Employee Appreciation: Good Leadership Through Service

Jacob Kache — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:23:07 +0000

Posted in Leadership Development

Good businesses are run by good people. You can throw around as many buzzwords as you like, but when it all comes down to it, it is the people who make the company. A good leader recognizes that, and knows that whatever they do, they are nothing without their employees. In fact, the way that [...]