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How do you sustain your own commitment, your energy, your spirit in the midst of a wave of negative signposts - both real and imagined? How do you as a leader maintain hope? I've delayed posting this article. I keep thinking the economy will be turning soon, and all will be well. Meanwhile, the news… Continue reading Walking Through Discouragement

Theories about leadership are plentiful. What can we learn, though, by a perceptive study of real leaders who have succeeded? In his bestseller "Good to Great," Jim Collins describes the characteristics of consistently high performing companies and their leaders. Of the 1435 Fortune 500 companies studied (1965 - 1995), only eleven survived his team's rigorous… Continue reading “Good to Great”

The partners had been in business for eight years, a 50/50 arrangement from the beginning. Increasingly over the years, Joe was the one who seemed to make it all happen. He was the producer, the business-getter, the rainmaker. His prowess in marketing was uncanny. He rarely met an opportunity he couldn't close. Though the internal… Continue reading “Rainmaker” or “Overfunctioner”?

Many leaders voice this question, sometimes in a perplexed, almost pleading tone. In his best seller "Good to Great", Jim Collins challenges this preoccupation of so many leaders - the anxious attempt to motivate people. His study of highly successful leaders revealed that if you have the right people on the bus, and they're in… Continue reading How Can I Motivate My People?

Imagine what would change if you determined to remove any commitments driven by Fear, Obligation or Guilt in 2005? What would you stop doing? What would you do instead? What would it look like if you committed to living in freedom? What if you set out to resolve at least some of those situations in… Continue reading Emerging From the FOG