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“Other men will make other violins, but no man shall make a better one.” Antonius Stradivarius

This is a guest post by Dr. Jack King (@DrJackKing) of The Northfork Center for Servant Leadership. Jack has been a great friend and supporter on LinkedIn and Twitter.  Don’t miss this great post and video. “It’s a great moment when someone has character to step up and do the right thing, at the right [...]

The more I think about character-based leadership and the leadership traits I want to model, I keep coming back to the gap between who you lead and who you serve.  Character-based leaders tend to line those up pretty closely.  The question seems to be: How big is your “WE”?

The May Webinar is WORK LIFE FLOW: FIXING THE HOLE IN THE CORPORATE SOUL by Anne Perschel of Germane Consulting.  The webinar will be held Monday, May 3, 2010 at 11:30 Eastern.

Finding the Soul of Big Business: One Company’s Ego Elimination Strategy by Paula Marshall I’ve lived in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area for almost 12 years. One organization that I’ve known about, without really knowing is Bama Companies, Inc., a 73 year old privately-held food services company. Bama is best known as a global pie and [...]

Character-based leadership creates energy. Character-based leaders lead out of who they are rather than their position.  They don’t manipulate; they inspire.  Their character, personality, gifts, values, beliefs and behaviors communicate to the whole team and other stakeholders that they are part of the team.  They share the goals and objectives of the team and serve [...]

Yesterday, Jennifer V. Miller posted a great article on networking, relationships and office politics.  The article is titled Networking Inside the Company Walls and it’s posted on Jennifer’s blog, The People Equation. It’s the first post in a series initiated by Jane Perdue that will also include Susan Mazza and myself. The idea is that [...]

Jane Perdue of The Braithewaite Group and the Life, Love & Leadership blog has introduced a challenging topic with a post called “Politics are Necessary but Not Necessarily Evil” where she introduces the idea that many of the core characteristics of quality leadership are also the central tenets of office politics.  The only difference is [...]

In a discussion a few days ago, Mandy Vavrinak made an observation that I promised to write about. She has a knack with words and can typically apply precise wording to a particular effort or idea. She said I was “at war with apathy.” The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines apathy as: A lack of feeling [...]

You have probably heard the David Campbell quote: “Discipline is remembering what you want.”  We all have more wants than we can keep up with.  That’s why tools like Getting Things Done (the book and system by David Allen), PDA’s and note-taking applications exist.  We forget what we want.  Our higher, more important values typically [...]