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Leadership

Preemptive Leadership

As a leader, you can either invest your time in preemptive leadership by training your people from the beginning and pulling them together all along, or reactive leadership where you find yourself on the back-end of every issue, always solving problems and putting out fires. Preemptive leadership will always give you the advantage. Which style […]

Leadership

Love and Boundaries

Love. Caring about a person?s well-being irrespective of what they can give back to you and regardless of what they may do to you. When practiced, love is powerful. But it is not practical unless it is guided by boundaries. Love and boundaries need to be independently alive and healthy. Love without boundaries leads to […]

Leadership

How Well Do You Know Your People?

Effectual leaders know their people. They are intentional about getting to know them on a deep level?beyond professional formalities and more toward a personal, authentic relationship. They not only get to know their people, they also allow their people to get to know them. While some leaders do not even attempt to get to know […]

Leadership

Why You Should Not Blame Anyone

When I hear leaders complain about their people, I know they have not mastered a core lesson of leadership: It is always our fault. Here?s why? As a leader, my tendency is to absolve myself of any wrongdoing when a person on my team is having “issues” that affect morale or productivity. So I made […]

Leadership

Be Gentle

Everyone is struggling with something. Be gentle. It?doesn’t?matter how successful, wise, or content we may become, most of us are always struggling with something. It could be big or small. It could be silly or life altering. At any given point, you may find yourself wrestling with a life question, a relationship, or an illness. […]

Productivity

How To Discuss?Not Argue?The Issues

Most discussions I see follow a traditionally confrontational approach, more akin to a wrestling match than a civil exchange of ideas. I believe there is a better way to talk with one another than to constantly battle and defend our positions. If you would like to have more productive verbal exchanges with others, you may […]

Leadership

How To Build a Second Mile Organization

You want your people to smile, welcome your customers, and be friendly and courteous, right? As the leader, I am sure you do. And you should. These gestures are what I call going the first mile. This is the basic treatment that customers expect. And there is a lot of competition in the first mile. […]

Leadership

They See You: How To Be a Good Audience Member

When I started speaking in front of audiences, I discovered a startling truth: speakers can actually see the attendees. They see their faces, expressions, and body language. Up to that point, I thought I was invisible when I sat in the audience. I never thought about how to be a good audience member, really. Why […]

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3 Reasons Why People Don’t Perform at Their Best

As leaders, sometimes we struggle to answer why people don’t perform at their best. One of our preoccupations is to get our people to become all that they could be, and do all that they should do. When our people don’t perform to the levels we think they should, I have found that it is […]

Leadership

What Is Healthy Leadership?

Healthy. That?s a word that has been at the center of my world for the last 15 years as a family doctor. After years of studying and writing about leadership, I have recently been pondering the word healthy as it relates?leadership. What is healthy leadership? If I were to distill everything I know about leadership […]