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SENSEI LEADERSHIP: Leadership Skills Even MORE Important for Small Businesses
If you run a small business, you’re shoulder to shoulder with the troops. You know everyone who works for you and even if you don’t, rest assured, they know you… Leadership is essential to any...
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SENSEI LEADERSHIP: Necessary Conditions for Leadership at All Levels in Your...
For effective leadership at all levels you’ve got to assure two conditions: #1 Make sure people understand what autonomy and discretion they have in their roles. #2 Support their autonomy with...
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SENSEI LEADERSHIP: Your Small Business Needs Leaders at ALL Levels
The smaller your business, the more important it is to develop leadership skills at all levels. Why? Because there is no one else to lead!!! First lets make sure we’re talking the same language. I’m...
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SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW WEEK: Boomerangs: Engaging the Aging Workforce in America
There is an explosion waiting to detonate in America, and unless we get our act together quickly, it’s not going to be pretty… According to noted author and business expert Cash Nickerson, “…by 2016,...
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SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW WEEK: The Family Business – How to Be in Business with...
For years I’ve been preaching to family business people, “Blood may be thicker than water- but only ink is thicker than blood!” Janna Hoiberg shines a bright light on the challenges and unique...
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SPECIAL BOOK REVIEW WEEK: Tremulous Prism – Our Journey in Dementia
There are only two completely unavoidable conditions in life: change and death… Tremulous Prism by Christopher Keith may be the most important book you will ever read should you find yourself dealing...
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POWER QUOTE WEEK: “Leadership is not Just for Leaders”
“Leadership is not just for leaders.” ~ Jim Bouchard OK- I’m not trying to make myself more important by quoting my own words. (Well, maybe a little.) I just find it strange that when I’m talking about...
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POWER QUOTE WEEK: Leadership ~ Lao Tzu
A recent Facebook post ranted, “Aren’t you sick of all these stupid quotes on social media?” What good is this endless stream of one-liners considering the real challenges and problems we all face...
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POWER QUOTE WEEK: Ben Franklin
“Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.” Ben Franklin hangs on a peg board near my desk. That is, my Ben Franklin mint-in-box action...
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BACK TO SCHOOL: Learn
It’s time to get back to the books. All this week I’ll share back to school tips you can share with your kids. And parents- hopefully you’ll get something out of these too. OK kids… Your number one and...
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BACK TO SCHOOL: Respect Your Teachers
“In America the schools have become too permissive, the kids now are controlling the schools, the tail is wagging the dog. We’ve got to make a change there and get it back to where the teachers have...
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How to Pick a Leader
Elections will soon be slapping us in the face. Well, the slapping has already started… I don’t know about you, but I’m seeing the same tired ads featuring the same truckloads of crap we see every...
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Wayne’s World Moments and What You Can Do About Them
No- this isn’t a fan page piece or a top 10 list of funny lines from Wayne’s World… Have you ever had one of these moments? You’re about to start a new task or job…or you’re about to step in front of...
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The Shortest…
There’s a nasty little section of every high school yearbook ironically called the “Superlatives.” It’s nasty because sometimes seldom if ever are these labels accurate even months after graduation and...
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The Confidence Imperative
Confidence is one of the most important qualities you must develop if you want to accomplish anything meaningful. For leaders, confidence is an essential ingredient if you want others to follow you...
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5 Things You Have to Do EVERY Damn Day…if you want to get ahead in life
Discipline is about developing meaningful and purposeful habits. If you want to accomplish something meaningful, you need to create meaningful disciplines… I’ll admit that a couple of these things show...
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Letting Go to Move Ahead
Today’s post is inspired by an old friend… One of the first people I encountered when I started speaking and writing was Joan Sotkin, the founder of ProsperityPlace.com and author of Build Your Money...
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Ebola and The Truth – A serious disconnect
This is not a post on how to stop the spread of Ebola. I’ll leave that to the medical experts. There are some very important leadership lessons to be learned from the way we are dealing with the fears...
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Why you should do your best anyway
I’ve said it myself… “Why should I even try? I’m doing the best I can and nothing is happening anyway.” Have you found yourself in any of these situations? You prepped for a very promising job...
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Why you should still teach your kids to do their best…anyway
Your son comes to you and says, “Someday, I’m going to play in the NFL.” What do you tell him? According to the NCAA, about 1 out of every 17 high school players will go on to play in college. From...
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