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politics tomorrow: America: Leadership In Crisis
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Thursday, November 1, 2012. America: Leadership In Crisis. You hear about it every day on television, on radio, in print and online. Failed leadership. faltering leadership. incompetent leadership. ineffective leadership and various other references for leadership that is simply no longer working or effective. Clearly this is a highly complex issue for which volumes could be written, so for now let's keep it simple. Here are several straight forward perspectives for your consideration:. In most cases....
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The Leadership Academy: Putting People Before Numbers
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Thursday, July 9, 2015. Putting People Before Numbers. Over the course of my career I have had the opportunity to both meet and work with executives and business owners from a wide range of business genres and classifications. When I first sit down with them, I always pose the exact same question of them… “Why are you or your organization in business? With rare exception, their responses are always the same… “To make money”. Or “To increase operating revenue”. Contrary to this general business trend, the...
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The Leadership Academy: February 2015
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Wednesday, February 25, 2015. My Door Is Always Open. When most people stop to consider what qualities and attributes contribute to someone being a good leader, they generally cite qualities such as honesty, integrity and trustworthiness. Aside from these particular personal attributes, it is also common perspective that good leaders must be effective problem solvers, decision makers and communicators. This important element is “accessibility”. 8230; While it may sound good, perhaps even reassuring to so...
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The Leadership Academy: January 2015
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Thursday, January 29, 2015. I have two very important and straight forward questions for you, which are:. Are your employees actually “happy”. Do your employees truly feel “secure”. Your organization may be surprised at the answers. I recently received the results of a Rutgers University Work Trends. Survey study which reported that American workers are unhappy. About their post Great Recession futures. Or “dissatisfied”. Regardless of how you frame these reports, the picture that they paint is quite som...
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The Leadership Academy: Women In Business
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Tuesday, June 2, 2015. In 1995, none of the Fortune 500 companies had a single women CEO among them. As a classic commercial once penned, “you’ve come a long way baby.”. Fast forward to January 2015… And there are now 25 women CEO’s who are at the leadership helm of Fortune 500 companies. In fact, according to the latest research by the women’s leadership group “The Club”. As of January 2015 women account for 51.4% of management and professional occupations. From the stand point of personal experience, I...
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The Leadership Academy: August 2015
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Thursday, August 6, 2015. 8 Words That Can Kill Your Leadership. Of the hundreds of qualities and attributes that a leader can exhibit, the critical cornerstone qualities that every leader must exemplify without exception are professional integrity and personal trustworthiness. If you are not 100% authentic and credible, your organization’s people will ultimately choose to neither trust you or follow you. Do you shoot straight when you speak? Like many everyday expressions and buzzwords, words ultimately...
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The Leadership Academy: July 2014
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Monday, July 21, 2014. Putting Life Back Into Perspective. When the world gets out of kilter, daily life generally seems to follow suit. The recent events of the downing of the Malaysian airliner in Ukraine and the Israeli conflict with Hamas have certainly added to life’s tensions for many concerned peoples around the world. Clearly, there were already ample things on the world stage and here at home in the U.S. to be plenty concerned about. The Most Crippling Failure Disease …………...The Most Powerf...
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The Leadership Academy: July 2015
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015. Leadership In The Truest Sense. The ever present question is… “What” is leadership? At the beginning of our Leadership Academy programs and workshops, the very first question that I typically open up for discussion is… What is leadership? To no surprise, the opinions about what leadership “is” are as varied as the number of people present in the room. The factual reality is that leadership is in application invariably one thing… “situational”. These individuals weren’t willi...
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The Leadership Academy: May 2014
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Thursday, May 1, 2014. Does your organization have a fail-safe leadership development and succession plan firmly in place? According to a recent study by the Deloitte University Press, it is highly likely that your organization is caught in a. 8220;leadership gap”. 86% of the organizations that were surveyed stated that leadership development and succession planning in fact constituted an. 8220;urgent need”. Additionally, your organization must comprehend that succession planning encompasses every level ...
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The Leadership Academy: Training Versus Development
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Thursday, June 25, 2015. How many times in your life have you heard someone say that a particular person is a “born” leader? Like most people, probably quite a few times over the years. The question now is… do you and your organization actually believe this to be true? Even a number of renowned experts on the topic of leadership indicate that they buy-in to this concept. Yet contrary to this often held belief, there is no empirical research or data to support such a belief or take such a position. As wel...
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