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31 05, 2017

Do You Have This Essential Leadership Skill?

By |May 31st, 2017|

Being a leader is a life-long journey.

A journey that brings you:

– Questions you don’t know how to answer.

– Opportunities to make a difference.

– Challenges that you would pass if you could.

and most of all:

– Uncertainty.

People cope with uncertainty differently. Some avoid it as much as they can. They seek comfort in predictability. Some love it. […]

24 05, 2017

Powerful Coaching Questions

By |May 24th, 2017|

Many years ago I was in a job interview and a person in the interview committee asked me what I thought of the following:

As a leader you need to be a bit lazy.

Well as a young and hard working twenty something I thought – to tell you the truth – that he was nuts. […]

17 05, 2017

How To Be A Wise Leader

By |May 17th, 2017|

Some managers become experienced and wise; some managers just become experienced.

Being experienced is not the same as being wise.

Author and radio host Krista Tippet who has spent years interviewing visionaries and wisdom thinkers. She asserts wisdom is not something that you possess. You can’t point at it. The wisest people, instead, have a presence that […]

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10 05, 2017

Don’t Fail By Forgetting About Them

By |May 10th, 2017|

Every organization has backbone employees. Never heard of backbone employees? Me neither. I just made it up while writing this article.

And although we might never have heard about backbone employees, you know whom I’m talking about. These are your employees who show up everyday on time at work, do their job, stay a bit longer […]