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Find Your Legacy: The Story of the Distracted Distributor: If you are present, be PRESENT!
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Thursday, May 7, 2015. The Story of the Distracted Distributor: If you are present, be PRESENT! This week I had a client in town that travelled across the country to meet with one of his key distributors. This client also happens to be the owner of the company and brand and makes these kinds of “market visits” just a few times a year. Labels: Performance management and execution. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thanks again for taking...
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Find Your Legacy: Inspiration from my sweet daughter Marie
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Monday, May 18, 2015. Inspiration from my sweet daughter Marie. Marie wrote this inspiring poem for a project at school, and she is referencing the illness and ultimate passing of her grandmother, Jane Firmin Saliers. Jane passed away in 2011 and we miss here deeply. You know when you move out of a house. And you clear everything out. It's still the outside of a house you know and love. But the inside is unrecognizable. Your memory slippi...
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Find Your Legacy: Leadership with a Growth Mindset
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Friday, April 29, 2011. Leadership with a Growth Mindset. In thinking about this dynamic, I want to share a few ideas that might be productive as we lead with an increasing “growth mindset.”. As leaders, we need to raise our own expectations for accelerating results in the business, capabilities across our organizations, along with our own skill sets. The last few years have been tough, really tough! 3) Increase Speed, NOW. Thanks for tak...
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Find Your Legacy: Talent: Four "Precious" Traits
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Monday, April 28, 2014. Talent: Four "Precious" Traits. Every business, every team (and in fact every nation, every family, etc.) will encounter problems over the course of time. Problems are coming, that’s a given! Advocates and Agents for Growth. Performance management and execution. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Thanks for taking the time to visit "Find Your Legacy". This idea came from a visit that I made to my grandmother d...
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Find Your Legacy: Three Impact Points of Leadership
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Three Impact Points of Leadership. I have often seen leaders attempt to "manage" their teams in the same way they "manage" their projects, usually with very little success. 3) their hands and feet. What follows is a review of this idea that I wrote a few years ago and recently edited. Take a look and let me know what you think! March 27, 2009 at 6:12 AM. This comment has been removed by the author. Thanks for taki...
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Find Your Legacy: Optimism… a priority for leadership and life!
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Monday, August 15, 2011. Optimism… a priority for leadership and life! In the midst of these realities, it has struck me that now more than ever, we need to take a moment to discuss the importance of maintaining “Optimism” as a priority for leadership and life. When I use the word “optimism”, I want to refresh ourselves on the dictionary definition:. Optimism in the face of challenges. Optimism in the face of opportunities. If you’r...
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Find Your Legacy: The Tyranny of the Urgent ... 5% for #2!
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Wednesday, November 17, 2010. The Tyranny of the Urgent . 5% for #2! While I often dream of a simpler, less frenetic lifestyle, I have come to terms with the reality that for the next number of years, my life will probably become more busy/full/hectic, not less. With that sobering assumption in mind, I wanted to share a simple model that I have found helpful in attempting to prioritize a “over capacity“life. To-do lists are solely trying ...
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Find Your Legacy: Selling: The Curbside Debrief
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Thursday, February 27, 2014. Selling: The Curbside Debrief. Selling: The Curbside Debrief. He passed away in 2009 and I know that I am only one of many who miss him deeply. Question #1: “Was the call successful and how would you know? Use the thumb) Think back to your call plan, did you accomplish your sales objectives for this call? How would you know if you did? Question #2: “What worked? Question #3: “What didn’t work? Now don’t ...
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Find Your Legacy: A teachable point of view
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Sunday, May 31, 2009. A teachable point of view. 160;He needed leaders with a point of view, no." a teachable point of view". Somehow this phrase hung in the air that night and I can still hear it ringing in my ears today. Leaders with a "teachable point of view". leaders as teachers. Here are a few of my reflections:. 160;These folks all knew the subject matter/material, deeply! 160;While it was not always as much as some of us needed,...
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Find Your Legacy: Navigating the “swamp” of a packaging project gone awry
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Lessons of leadership and life. stories, insights and experiences. Sunday, June 7, 2015. Navigating the “swamp” of a packaging project gone awry. It happens all the time, good intentions combined with strong instincts, and a desire to act quickly, conspire together to create quite a mess. That exact setup was the reality I stepped into on a recent client trip. A few weeks ago I had a client call, frustrated and challenged with a packaging project that was his responsibility. As is often the case with any...
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