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Our Thoughts: The Climate Control of Our Lives
Okay, think back…no farther back…all the way back to biology class is Junior High. Remember when we learned about an ecosystem? You remember, that ‘community of living organisms in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment all interacting as a system?’ (Okay, maybe not. That’s why I included a definition here to refresh our memories. Don’t worry, I won’t tell anyone.)
Grow Your Company the Easy Way – Grow Your People
No matter what industry you’re in, people are your most important asset. Whether you create things, move other people’s things, or provide a service, your people make it happen.
An Encouraging Personal Story of Overcoming…
Imagine waking up one day in a hospital and having no idea of where you are or how you got there. Imagine how confusing and disorienting that would be. You’re not sure if you should be thankful or scared. You hear the beeping of the monitor and the crackle of the intercom calling doctors “to Emergency Room B.” Your mind is foggy. You just can’t seem to clear your head.
10 Steps to Leading Effectively in Difficult Times
Strong leaders really stand out in tough times. Candidly, it’s much easier to lead when things are going well. But it’s far more important to lead in uncertain and difficult times.
So what do strong leaders do to help people navigate through the challenges of tough times? Well, here’s a list of 10 things that separate strong leaders from ‘fair weather’ leaders.
The 3 Best Ways to Make Your Job Easier
Who wouldn’t like their job to be easier? For those that would, here are our 3 best ways to do it.
3 Steps to Becoming an Influential Leader
While becoming a strong, effective and truly influential leader takes time and intentional personal growth, it all starts with understanding the basics of leadership.
Leadership is all about developing relationships. Leadership at its core, is nothing more than building an influential relationship with another person. Therefore, the true measure of leadership is influence. The question becomes, how large is your sphere of influence and how strong is your influence with each person in that ‘sphere’?
The 4th of the 4 Major Leadership Mistakes that Many Business Owners Make
Business owners, and those with positional power or authority, are busy people. They rarely have the time they need to think through strategies in detail, and evaluate the results that these strategies drive. This is certainly true regarding their strategy (or lack of strategy) to effectively develop the leaders they need throughout their organization – to run and grow their business.
The 4 Major Leadership Mistakes that Many Business Owners Make (Part 3 of 4)
Number three applies to business owners and those with positional power or authority. With mistake #3, these people mistakenly believe they get to ‘make the rules’ regarding leadership.
The 4 Major Leadership Mistakes that Many Business Owners Make (Part 2 of 4)
We’re now to number 2 of what we’ve found as the 4 major mistakes that business owners, or senior leadership teams of larger companies, make on a regular basis that limits the performance of the organization.
The 4 Major Leadership Mistakes that Many Business Owners Make (Part 1 of 4)
In this short series of posts, I’ll cover the 4 major mistakes that business owners, or senior leadership teams of larger companies, make on a regular basis that limits the performance of the organization.
The first major mistake: Confusing ‘running the business’ with ‘leading your people’.
