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Hi, I'm Kevin!

There are lots of words that describe me. The "professional" ones include: author, speaker, trainer, consultant, facilitator, business owner, Chief Potential Officer The Kevin Eikenberry Group - Your Leadership Help Button (of The Kevin Eikenberry Group) and leader. The "life" ones include: husband, father, son, brother, friend, Purdue Graduate, reader, and learner. The "personal" ones include, Boilermaker fan, farmer's son, tractor collector (yes, the real ones), auction lover and optimist.

All of these things (and more) make me who I am and are relevant to this blog and why it will benefit you.

Below you will find ideas, thoughts and suggested action steps to help you become a more effective leader – whatever your professional and life roles are. The path towards Remarkable Leadership (and a Remarkable Life) is just that - a path. The goal of this blog is to help you on that path, and through learning and action, become your Leadership Help Button.

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Go Givers Sell More

February 22, 2010 Books

This week’s Resource Recommendation – Go Givers Sell More by Bob Burg and John David Mann
In December 2007, I reviewed a business parable called The Go-Giver.
I’ve known for more than a year that a sequel was coming, titled Go-Givers Sell More. The book has just been published, and I just received a copy. I [...]

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Leadership Lessons from Olympic Athletes

February 22, 2010 Leadership

I love the Olympics.
I love the athleticism and the story lines and the preparation and the inspiring moments and the psychology and the history … and so much more.
As I’ve talked with people during the Games, I’ve found that even people who generally aren’t sports fans usually can find something to be interested in during [...]

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Who is Responsible, Really?

February 20, 2010 Accountability

Before I begin, let me give you a Rant Alert.
When I’m done you may feel like I’ve been ranting a bit.  I’m not going to apologize for it, I feel strongly about the point I am about to make.  I’ve decided after thinking about this post for two days, that perhaps a rant is the [...]

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An Olympic Sized Message For Us

February 17, 2010 Leadership

I’m guessing most all of those who read this haven’t been, aren’t and won’t ever be Olympic athletes.  (If you are please leave a comment I’d love to know!)  I’m also guessing with about the same level of certainty that you have watched, heard about or read about at least some of the Olympic activities [...]

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Spam vs. Noise, and Why it Matters to Leaders

February 16, 2010 Communication

I recently read somewhere (I’m sorry I can’t trace my steps to where I read it or who wrote it) about the difference between spam and noise; spam being something unwanted, unrequested, an too frequent – and noise being irrrelevant or meaningless.
I believe leaders sometimes don’t communicate as much as they should because they don’t want [...]

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Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust

February 15, 2010 Books

This week’s Resource Recommendation – Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust By Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
This review/recommendation is overdue. I could give you reasons for my delay, some even relevant, but as I write this today I apologize to any of you who haven’t yet heard about [...]

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How to Create Improved Results from Thin Air!

February 15, 2010 Leadership

There are tools, seminars, books, CD’s, teleseminar, webinars and workshops (and more) to help you learn and improve in any area of your life. I should know, I have bought and attended many of them, and sold a great number of them as well.
This article isn’t meant dissuade you from investing in these opportunities, in [...]

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A Leadership Valentine

February 13, 2010 Leadership

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day (if you are reading this and you forgot, consider this a public service announcement before I get on to the post).
Valentine’s Day, according to Wikipediais “an annual holiday celebrated on February 14 celebrating love and affection between intimate companions.”
Perhaps not all of that matches up to our role as leaders – we [...]

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Leadership Lessons From The Dancing Man

February 13, 2010 Leadership

Last July, I wrote a post about the dancing man (a popular YouTube video), and some leadership lessons from it.  This morning I read (and saw) Derek Siver’s TED talk from this week based on the same video.

(If you would like to read the transcript of Derek’s talk, you can find it here.)
Derek makes excellent points [...]

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Build Your Confidence, Brick By Brick

February 12, 2010 Books

This month, proactive leaders who are continually improving their leadership skills as members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System are focused on Communicating with Confidence.   Yesterday was the Guest Conversation for Silver members (and above) and it featured Kate Atkin, leadership and confidence expert, and author of The Confident Manager.  (She also wrote a blog post about [...]

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