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Remarkable Leadership

Each month members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System (you can get your sample on the right, or learn more here) focus on one skill.  This month’s skill is Developing Customer Partnerships. And members at the Silver level and above get the opportunity to participate in a guest call each month.  These calls are with [...]

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Leadership Lessons from Ivanka Trump

by Kevin Eikenberry on May 5, 2009

in Remarkable Leadership

Last week I had the chance to hear Ivanka Trump speak, and meet her after wards. (As you can see she is happy to now have her copy of Remarkable Leadership). As Wharton-educated daughter of Donald Trump, Vice President of Trump International, regular on his television show, Celebrity Apprentice, and owner of her own jewelry [...]

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As has been reported widely in the past couple of days, President Obama has been in office for 100 days.  If he is in office for one term (all that can be guaranteed at this time), his total time in office (depending on how you count the two Inauguration Days) will be 1460 days. In other [...]

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Members of our Remarkable Leadership Learning System were treated to a great Guest Conversation call this week.  My guest was Bruce Tulgan, the author of many books, including his newest Not Everyone Gets a Trophy: How to Manage Generation Y. Because our members are focused on being more effective at giving feedback, (Bruce also wrote a [...]

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The Nobel Prize winning author Albert Camus once noted, “You cannot create experience, you must undergo it.” This points to a problem inherent in most all training programs, and perhaps especially in leadership development programs; workshops and seminars don’t provide experience (and therefore don’t prepare people with skills). To build your leadership skills (or to build [...]

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One of the competencies in my book Remarkable Leadership is Influencing with Impact.  In order to be a highly effective leader we must be able to successfully influence and persuade others. While we all know how powerful our actions are in influencing others, we cannot lose sight of how powerful our words are as well.  Ralph Waldo Emerson [...]

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In my issue of Powerquotes Plus yesterday, the quotation I picked was from Jack Nicklaus, perhaps the greatest golfer of all time.  He said: “Focus on remedies, not faults.” This is a truth for ourselves – that we should focus on what we can improve, and how to do it, rather than focus on our [...]

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The big news this week is that Yankee baseball player Alex Rodriguez admitted to using steroids. Almost everyone is shocked that this particular athlete resorted to performance enhancing drugs – even though so many others have already admitted or have been strongly accused of this behavior. But really, I’m not. Here’s why… When it comes [...]

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Over the past few weeks I have been asked by a variety of people how the recession is affecting my business.  In every case I have told people that our business has never been better.  (In fact, I typically tell people that we’ve chosen not to participate in the recession, but that comment is for [...]

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Spent some time this week (about 4 hours) building the first of two large process maps. This picture is just a small piece of the process we mapped for the administration of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System. It was a really good meeting (thanks to Andrea and Barb!). We got a lot done in a [...]

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