This week’s Resource Recommendation: Good Boss, Bad Boss: How to Be the Best and Learn From the Worst by Robert Sutton. This is a brand new book. (It actually publishes on Sept 7, but it’s available now.) I was lucky enough to get an uncorrected proof copy to read. And when I say lucky, I [...]
The title and idea for this post comes from social media superstar and super good guy (I’m pleased to call him a friend) Chris Brogan, who recently wrote a post called, Your Farmer List . In the post Chris shares things that should be on a blogger’s daily task list. Of course, as a farm kid, I [...]
I just got off a members-only teleseminar in the Remarkable Leadership Learning Systemwith Patti Ayars, founder of Turning Point Consulting and author of the new book The Art of Leading Transformation Change. One of the insights she shared during the call was . . . People join a company, but leave a supervisor. I believe [...]
Yesterday, on the Guest conversation Call as a part of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System, my guest Timothy Johnson was asked how to deal with resistance to process improvement efforts in the form of “I don’t have time.” His answer was brief, to the point, and completely correct. He pointed out that we all have [...]
In a recent session of our Bud to Boss Workshop, we were asked how do I handle the situation when I am now the boss of my former boss. It is a good question, and one that in the topsy turvy changing world of business probably happens more times than we realize. it is a [...]
As I write this it is a Monday morning at the beginning of a new month. I suppose that is what got me thinking about this topic, but it is relevant any time. If you want to exhibit, show or have leadership influence, the simplest and perhaps best way to do that is get off [...]
This is a post prompted by the anniversary of the attacks on the United States on 9/11/01. While that was a tragedy of epic proportions, many good things happened in the days and weeks that followed, not the least of which was that people across the United States became more aware of their values. The [...]
Trevor Harley, is a talented, smart guy. And he is currently looking for a new job opportunity. While I haven’t talked to him in depth about it, I know he is doing all of the normal, standard, smart things to look for a job. But as the email I received yesterday shows, he is doing [...]
On our monthly Remarkable Leadership teleseminar yesterday (titled Remarkable Leaders Create Team Alignment) I was able to answer many of the questions raised by our over 250 registrants. But I ran out of time before I could answer this one that came in from Colorado: How much/how often is it wise for teams to be [...]