Historically a new-hire moved from learning the required tasks of their particular job to eventually understanding the goals, strengths, and weaknesses of the business in an orderly way – often having as much to do with their getting older as with their getting better, smarter, or more capable.
They were then promoted from actually doing [...]
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What separates a rich person from an ordinary person? The answer to that question is attitude. If one believes that the individual is capable of succeeding, it will happen. All it takes is some hard work and patience for everything to fall into place for that dream to become a reality.
This all starts on how [...]
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When speaking about the importance of leadership, Fred Fielder and Martin Chemers wrote, “The quality of leadership, more than any other single factor, determines the success or failure of an organization.” Perhaps this is why so many businesses are willing to pay for executive leadership training. It is also why there are many different programs [...]
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Leaders all have different qualities but there are at least 7 qualities that are common to all leaders. If you want to be someone that people look up to and trust you can develop these qualities in yourself to strengthen your team and your business.
The first trait that all leaders share is that they are [...]
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Leadership, sales, marketing, training, mentoring -they all demand communication skills. Understand a few communication theories and you can greatly improve these skills.
While I would like to give you simple pat answers, life is not always simple. Some of the most abundant oil wells require deep drilling. I say that so that you will not check [...]
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The leader is the broker of a message. The manager is a broker of information. And yet, managers can be leaders. It all depends on the significance of the message and what they do with it. Adept managers can take an old message and re-tool it and then leverage it into greater influence.
That is what [...]
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Last week I was with two executives from the same company discussing an issue they were having. One (Joe) was feeling overrun and overworked. The other (Mike) agreed and was concerned about it.
The discussion continued and I asked for a specific example of what was happening.
As the example unfolded it became apparent the “Tail was [...]
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