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Leadership

Are You a Decisive or Deliberative Leader?

Outstanding leaders are decisive. They are not hesitant, reticent, or unsure. They are brave and daring. They are comfortable making bold decisions, even when they are not 100% sure success will follow.?Right? But how about being deliberative? Calm. Calculated. Intentional. Slow to act. Aren?t these good qualities in a leader as well? Be Decisive, But […]

Personal Development

How to Capture Life-Changing Principles

A lot of people read with a pen or highlighter in hand. We eagerly mark what touches us. We finish the book and have a sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately, we typically recall a negligible?fraction of what we read or mark. We forget the rest, even those ideas or thoughts that gave us an ah-ha moment. […]

Purpose

Beyond Finding Your ?One Purpose”

For at least two decades, thought leaders have preached an idea that has become nearly sacred. It is that you must find your singular purpose in life. While I too have marched behind this bandwagon, and still agree with many of its principles, I would like to share with you a new perspective on this […]

Leadership

Deciding When the Choice Is Unclear

Let’s have a conversation today about making tough decisions. Whether leading others or leading ourselves, making the right decision determines our level of success. Stripped down to the basics, there are two types of decisions. As leaders we must know the difference between the two. By having this understanding, we will be able to avoid […]

Personal Development

A List of My Current Mentors

In the last blog post, I discussed seven principles to apply when establishing a relationship with a mentor. To bring this to a practical dimension, I want to share with you in this article who my current mentors are. I will not mention specific names to respect their privacy, but I will let you know […]

Personal Development

Do You Really Need Mentors?

One of the best ways to grow is to be mentored by someone who has traveled further than you in a particular area of life. ?Until five years ago, I had never had a?mentor. No one had shared with me the value of having them or how to go about managing those relationships. I had […]

Leadership

How To Navigate Doing Business with Family and Friends

Many will tell you not to do it. We are told that doing business with those very close to us can spell disaster for personal relationships if things go wrong. But isn’t there a way?navigate these relationship without the drama and trauma? Here are five principles I?ve found to be effective when working with people […]

Purpose

The Chapters of Life

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, the highly regarded commander of the defeated Confederacy, Robert E. Lee, was visiting a Kentucky woman at her estate. She commented on a beautiful old tree that was dying due to the Union?s bombardment. She asked the General what she should do with this ailing tree, alluding […]

Purpose

Three Steps to Branding Anything

When Steve Jobs brought us the iPod in 2001, we were charmed. I don?t know if you bought one at the time. I did, even though I was not into listening to music via small devices, as some of my friends were back then. The iPod was sleek, simple, and hot! You had to have […]

Leadership

Back to the Basics: What is Leadership?

Last year I heard the well-known writer, Richard Reeves, say something interesting about US presidents. He was referring to President Kennedy and why he was considered to be a great leader, when he said, “We don?t elect presidents to manage the government. We elect presidents to lead the nation.” But can you lead a nation […]