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I first remember carrying a flashlight at summer camp. Coming back to the cabin after the campfire would have been pretty treacherous without one. Something got me thinking about flashlights recently. As I thought about them, I realized that as leaders we need to have a flashlight available for a variety of reasons . . [...]
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Typically in these weekly “powerquotes” posts I feature a quotation from a famous, or at least known person. Today that isn’t the case. I don’t know Dan Ivey, though I found his LinkedIn profile just now. His quote came from a Fast Company email in my quotation archives from 2004. I’m pleased to share it [...]
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As leaders we often have many competing issues, challenges, and tasks. Guess what? That is life. To be an effective leader we must continue to be focused. We must provide a consistent vision of the future we are leading people towards. That is leadership. Of course we can have new ideas. But the new must [...]
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Jack Dempsey had a simple definition of a champion. “A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t.” As a heavyweight boxing champion from 1919-1926, he had some experience in being a champion, and credibility in making that statement. When you think about it, the circular logic of the quotation makes perfect sense. Champions do [...]
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Let me start by saying I am not a camel expert. Some of what I know about camels, I have learned from reading throughout my life. Some I learned yesterday when talking with colleagues – people who know more about them than I do. I however have become more interested because of my recent personal [...]
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Status quo requires no leadership. That has been a mantra of mine for a long time. It encapsulates an important point about the role of leaders – leaders are in the change business. After all, if everything in your organization was perfect, there would be no need for leaders because there would be no new [...]
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I grew up like many men my age, a big baseball fan. I lived in Michigan, and my family was originally from Ohio, so I followed the Detroit Tigers and the Cincinnati Reds. I listened to both on the radio late at night, and watched whenever I could. At the height of my baseball interest [...]
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I am proud to be an American. And I’m never prouder than on this day – Constitution Day. 223 years ago today a group of American citizens ratified our Constitution. I am not a historian, and it has been awhile since have studied the process that lead to the creation of the U.S. Constitution (Here [...]
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This week’s Resource Recommendation: Making Vision Stick by Andy Stanley Andy Stanley is an author and the founding senior pastor of a large church in Atlanta. He speaks about leadership from personal experience which is perhaps the most striking part of this book. In this great book, Andy talks about the ultra important topic of [...]
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Take a minute and mentally put yourself in a place that you love. You love the sights, the sounds, the activity you are engaging in. If there are others around they are people you are excited to be with. Take a minute and put yourself in that situation mentally right now. Now, imagine that I [...]
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