A book’s length is not a direct indicator of it’s value or depth. Many a lengthy book has put me to sleep and many a short book has had wonderful insights. The Leadership Test by Timothy R. Clark Ph.D. falls into the later category. It’s a very quick read but it left me with a » Read More
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Roger Courville of 1080 Group
A few weeks ago I was introduced to a man you should meet. He is a very creative, energetic leader in the field of web presentations: Roger Courville of 1080 Group. If you do anything with web presentations, you should meet him for at least 3 reasons:
Tribal Leadership
I’ve just finished listening to a book called Tribal Leadership Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright. I listened to an abridged audio version of the book that you can get for FREE! here, compliments of Zappos.com The authors define a tribe as a group of » Read More
Unique Difference
What does it take to be truly unique? What do you do that no one can reproduce? A meeting I had this week caused me to think a great deal about this. This person said that they sought out people who were truly unique and that could make an impact to their company’s bottom line. » Read More
Reflect Back To Lead Forward
Do you remember the opening line from Paul Simon’s Kodachrome (most of you are probably too young, so a link is here). “When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” Each of us has a season in life we’d rather forget. For » Read More
Look What They Make You Give
Did you see the recent Bourne movies; The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum? In the first movie, The Bourne Identity, Jason and Marie run into the countryside to hide out at her friend Eamon’s chateau. Another of the Treadstone assasins, The Professor, played by Clive Owen comes to kill Bourne, but » Read More
Objective Measurability
Regardless of the size of your team or business, you need to know how well you’re doing. Everyone wants to be able to have confidence their contribution matters. In Three Signs Of A Miserable Job, Patrick Lencioni explained that immeasurability is the first sign of misery. Employees need to be able to measure their performance » Read More
In Your Right Mind
Book Review: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future by Daniel H. Pink Every now and then I read a book that stretches my mind. I’m not such a free-thinker to do it often, but a friend offered me a copy of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future » Read More
True Leadership: Greater Than Yourself
We naturally seem to serve ourselves. We eat and sleep and do whatever we do for mostly selfish reasons. At least I do. I don’t like to admit it, but I’m eating what I want for lunch as I type this. I didn’t choose what I’m doing because it served someone else. I choose based » Read More
What Your Team Must Know
I’ve done a series of posts now on topics from Patrick Lencioni’s great book, The Three Signs Of A Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees). In the previous post, I mentioned two ways that an employee can feel the problems associated with one of the key signs: irrelevance. But I only explained » Read More
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Cynthia J Stewart says
Great reflections on how to use anger constructively, Mike. Anger actually has a...
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