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Three Essential Ingredients for Leading Anyone

There are three essential ingredients for leading anyone. Anytime I have forsaken them, my?leadership has fallen flat. Let me share them with you. Go to Their World My natural tendency is to lead people from my own position. I want people to come to my world, to meet me where I am.?Follow me, isn?t that […]

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15 Expectations of Your Inner Circle of Leaders

I aim to bring people close to me?my inner circle?who are healthy leaders, consummate professionals, and compassionate human beings. Before these people join my inner circle, I try my best to make certain?they?have the following traits and habits, or have the potential to reach them easily. I hope these will help you to raise the […]

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A Word About Domestic Abuse

People in relationships face constant challenges to maintain healthy connections. And when these connections fail, it is our human nature to descend into decadent behaviors, wielding weapons to defend and control our environments. Some may pout, yell, withdraw, or leave. And while all of these mechanisms are destructive to our relationships, one line must never […]

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Don’t Diminish Friendships | Establish Boundaries

?I feel like I am becoming more of a friend, and less of a boss.? Many leaders grapple to?define relationships with their people. Most of us would like?a comfortable, personal element in our?relationships with our staff, but fear losing our authority and their respect. If we are going to progress successfully in leadership, we must […]

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What the Ultimate Goal of Your Leadership Should Be

What is the ultimate goal of your leadership? Is it to increase your profits? To develop a better team? Or to create a stronger family? Maybe yours is to grow your organization, or to have happy clients, customers, or patients. When we?aspire to lead, we question the goal of our leadership from time to time, […]

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Don’t Invade. Invite.

Great leaders do not invade. They invite. They do not invade people?s boundaries to pull?them along on the journey. They invite them to join them instead. When we are willing to show others the respect they deserve, it completely alters our approach. Invasion tears people down. You only have to watch three and?four year-olds play […]

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How to Handle Difficult Customers

In this article I want to share with you a gut-wrenching incident that happened to me and my team in the last year and the lessons it taught us about dealing with difficult customers. (For privacy, while this is an actual incident that occurred, none of the names used below are real.) What I found […]

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Values of a Great Team: SERVE

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing team members serve one another?everyone doing their utmost for the rest. But sometimes it is difficult to understand and explain what it really means to serve. Allow?me to share some thoughts about the meaning and practice of serving others. The concept of service as it relates?to great leadership […]

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Leadership Lesson from a Music Conductor

An Italian musician from Naples, Riccardo Muti is one of the world?s greatest conductors. At 73, as the Director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Muti has accrued decades of world-renowned performances and recordings. In a recent interview, he talked about the essence of being a conductor. What he expressed captures the very heart of leadership. […]

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How Do You Gain the Trust of Your Team?

[blockquote text=’This is a guest post by Stephanie LeBlanc. Stephanie is the practice administrator at TotalCare Hulen in Fort Worth, Texas. She also holds other leadership positions including president of her accounting firm, as well as Project Connect Texas, a?non-profit organization she founded to serve the Dallas/Fort Worth community. – Wes Saade, M.D.‘ text_color=’#ffffff’ width=’95’ […]