How Not To Spread Your Ideas
“A poem is no place for an idea.” - Edgar Watson Howe This quotation isn’t a slam on poems. But the audience of poem readers is (relatively) small. If you have an idea that you want to spread, it must...
View ArticleWhat Leaders Can Do Amidst the Wall Street Mess
It might be time to turn off the news, and focus on our work. Here are my thoughts about how the Wall Street situation affects us as leaders and what we can be doing to make a difference. If you would...
View ArticleThe Role of Persistence in Goal Achievement
Goal achievement is an important task for us as leaders and we must recognize our role not only as an individual but as a leader. In other words we must be adept at goal achievement, and we must be...
View ArticleLessons on Powerful Communications from Presidential Campaign
As our election grows ever closer, I continue to watch the candidates, watching for lessons that we can apply as leaders everyday. In conversations recently with friends and colleagues I have mentioned...
View ArticleWhich Presidential Candidate Is the Best Leader?
There are many criteria we can use to vote for a particular candidate. I’m most interested in one of those criteria – which candidate, Barack Obama or John McCain, do you feel has the strongest...
View ArticleU.S. Presidents on Leadership
In this election season, I decided to share a few quotations from U.S. Presidents about leadership itself. Here’s the one I shared with our Powerquotes list today: “I would rather try to persuade a man...
View ArticleAn Important Project Management Question
Here’s the question: Are you managing your projects, or are your projects managing you? This question is much more than a play on words or a time management query. The question is about planning and...
View ArticleAre You Judging or Observing?
The other day my son commented that his mother and I were being judgemental. this came after I made a comment about something as we drove down the road. My immediate response was that I wasn’t judging,...
View ArticleBeing the Remarkable Leader You Were Meant to Be
All of us can be leaders. You can be a (Remarkable) leader. I’ve said it, and written it, but I’m not the first (and I won’t be the last – Seth Godin talks about this idea extensively in his new book...
View ArticleA Location Change for This Blog
This blog began several months before the publication of Remarkable Leadership – Unleashing Your Leadership Potential One Skill at a Time. While I have continued to write about leadership topics, and...
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