Are You Worthy of My Followership?
Humility, empathy, and integrity form three of the essential components of character that make you worthy of being a leader.
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Rogues Have More Fun
If you want to make your organization more successful while simultaneously having more fun, you might need to get yourself a rogue. Rogues Role-playing games have generally been around since the 1970s. These games are incredibly fun, because they generally put players into interactive and evolving stories. All players bring their own creativity to enhance …
Entrepreneurship: Signing the Front the Payroll Check
“Your life changes the moment you sign the front of a payroll check instead of the back.”
Perceptions are Misleading: Which Square is Darker?
Good leaders are capable of putting their ego aside to embrace their own fallibility. They care more about being the decision being good than their need to be right.
Helping Our Leaders Succeed
On average, the first dozen years of being a manager, most people are given inadequate guidance. We need to do a better job helping our leaders succeed.
Power is an Illusion: David and Goliath
The reason the underdog overcomes the advantaged is because we fail to realize that power is an illusion. In the biblical story of David and Goliath the power dynamics have much to teach us about leadership. A Misunderstood Story Malcolm Gladwell, in his excellent Book, David and Goliath, makes the critical point that our contemporary …
Lesson: The Force of Your Advocacy
Are you having difficulty getting people on your side? Do you find yourself locked into a disagreement and never seem to get to a point where you can start having constructive dialogue with others? Do you actually care about trying to address today’s critical problems rather than focus on winning the argument? I want to …
Business Essentials: Know Your Value!
The Story I’d like to share with you a quick story about your business and why you need to know your value. It is my hope that by reading this, you may be more willing to understand and demand what you are worth. A colleague and I were sitting down with a potential client not …
Conquering Procrastination: Nothing’s Going to Change
This is the sign I keep above my desk in my office. It constantly warns me of the dangers of procrastination. Many of us want to make a change in our lives. We want to be more successful, improve our relationships, or go after our dreams. The terrible truth is that willful change is hard. …
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When Things Go Wrong: Five Minutes of Terror
When things go wrong. Five Minutes of Terror. So I had about 5 minutes of pure terror this morning. I’ve been seeking to add plugins to the WordPress framework upon which this site has been built. The plugins are intended to make better interaction with social media. As is often the case with software development, …