Leadership Tips – Five Excuses Real Leaders Never Use
By Tom O’Dea Are you a real leader? Not if you’ve ever tried to put one of these over on someone. 1. It’s not my fault. Oh yes it is. The leader steps up to accountability for whatever happens on his or her watch. Did the President personally screw up the response efforts to Hurricane [...]
Leadership – The True Height of a Leader
By Mark Bowser Abraham Lincoln was an exceptionally tall man. He stood an impressive six feet, four inches tall. That is tall even for our day, but in his era, he must have seemed like a giant. He then would wear a tall top hat made of silk. When he had it on, he stood [...]
Politics as Usual
By Irene Conlan I’ve been following the presidential campaigns as well as our state campaigns for the U.S. Congress and I am sad to say that the faces change but the rhetoric stays the same. I was once married to a U.S. Congressman so I have a bit of experience in this “campaign stuff.” Last [...]
Saying No And Setting Boundaries – Understanding The Process Of Three Strikes You're Out
By Lynn Marie Sager http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Lynn_Marie_Sager To be effective, boundaries need to do three things: define your expectations, clarify your definition of acceptable behavior, and explain the consequences of disregarding your boundaries. Without consequences, people never learn boundaries. Without boundaries, people never become mature, self-reliant adults. Here is a technique for setting boundaries called, Three Strikes, You’re [...]
Out of the Box
ByDennis Diehl http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Dennis_Diehl Boxes are really interesting things. It’s the first thing we see when we receive something as a gift. It tells us a lot about the size, weight and contents of what’s inside. I remember as a kid, picking up a light box for Xmas meant “clothes” and a heavy box generally meant [...]
Coping With Change – Fear or Productivity?
By Kristen Gonzales A Challenge to Educators to Welcome Change into Their Profession “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results”—Benjamin Franklin The idea of change can evoke a range of emotions from people—fear, anger, anxiety, resentment, excitement, relief or elation. But even for the elated, there [...]
Lessons from the Fog
By Paula Gregorowicz This weekend I led a bike ride for the local club. When I signed up for it I had visions of cool, crisp autumn air and leaves turning Technicolor. What I got was an unseasonable hot October Saturday complete with morning fog you couldn’t even cut with a chef’s grade knife. I [...]
7 Levels of Leadership – Are You A Good Leader?
By Janice Bastani It is no secret that a company can not succeed without sustainable leadership. Today’s executive leaders must hold the secret on how to be a good leader. One may think they are a respected, successful leader, but are they really? Are they infecting their organizational community with negative energy or building it [...]
Traits of the Super Successful
By Sandra Martini My sister told me recently that, in a conversation with her in-laws-to-be, her almost-mother-in-law was speaking about how she felt so drained as a result of all the negativity she was exposed to that day. My sister then mentioned that I live in my “happy bubble” — I don’t watch much television, [...]
Purpose – Powered by Passion
By Alex Blackwell What do you want the epitaph on your tombstone to say when you die? Many would be satisfied, if not relived, if their epitaph proclaimed, “I Survived.” Others, perhaps you, want more out of life than just going through the motions, day after day, and simply surviving. To live a life of [...]
