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Cresting as a Leader: Turning Transitions into Triumphs

Cresting as a Leader: Turning Transitions into Triumphs

There’s a certain inevitability to leadership - no matter how high you climb. The view from the top is exhilarating at first—the accolades, the accomplishments, the recognition—but what happens when the climb slows, when the thrill of the ascent gives way to something...

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How Will AI Impact Organizations and the Role of Leaders?

How Will AI Impact Organizations and the Role of Leaders?

If you have a television or radio, chances are you have heard talk of AI (Artificial Intelligence). Artificial intelligence has the potential to improve workplace efficiency dramatically. It has the potential to take over dangerous or repetitive tasks and allow...

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Development Works

Development Works

One of the advantages of a thirty-year career is accumulating enough evidence to support your convictions. Some people doubt that training can develop leadership skills, and think that people are either born with what it takes to be a leader or they aren’t. So early...

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Risk-taking and the Law of Inertia

Risk-taking and the Law of Inertia

Newton’s first law of motion, the law of inertia, tells us that a body at rest will remain at rest and a body in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. Inertia is defined as the property of an object to resist changes in its state of motion....

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Five Key Characteristics of Goals That Motivate

Five Key Characteristics of Goals That Motivate

We are at the starting line of another year. And for the majority of companies, the new year begins with goals.  Now as you are reading this, chances are you have made and already broken your own New Year's resolution. The most common reason for that is lost...

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The Extraordinary Ordinary Leader

The Extraordinary Ordinary Leader

What a leader does every day may seem ordinary, but ordinary things done consistently are what it takes to be extraordinary. You look uniquely familiar. You, the one who has learned to believe in yourself, trust yourself, and follow the quiet inner voice that says,...

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Taking a Moment to Pause

Taking a Moment to Pause

During this time of year, we are often overwhelmed. Schedules are full and there are never enough hours in the day. But while you are busy rushing from one thing to the next, I offer this reminder from my book Leadership to Words at a Time, to pause, breathe and...

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