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Internal Leadership and Development Consultant at Tenaska and Executive Director Of The Omaha Magical Society.

• Magic Club Resource Catalog 1

  By Dave Arch on February 25, 2024

  

  A club online video library, weekly short email essays on enhancing your members’ performance skills, an online leadership self assessment, a video with ten proven principles for building a magic club, a blog with over 300 leadership posts and monthly… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: The 20% Margin Principle

  By Dave Arch on December 10, 2023

  

  Experience eventually teaches a magic club that without at least a 20% margin, shrinkage begins to occur. • Once a magic club’s meeting room consistently fills to 80% of its capacity, members will start taking turns coming to the meetings;… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Intensity

  By Dave Arch on March 9, 2020

  

  Many leaders I work with have a capability for intensity beyond that of the average person.  That strength only remains a strength if it is managed in all three areas of communication. The above poster illustrates a continuum of intensity… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Tunnel Vision

  By Dave Arch on March 6, 2020

  

  Although there are many places where the term “tunnel vision” might be applied to leadership, in this post the application specifically addresses the driven leader who thrives on daily accomplishment after accomplishment while overlooking his/her own personal/internal growth and development…. Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Obscurity vs. Significance

  By Dave Arch on March 6, 2020

  

  When the word “leader” is spoken, there are certain names that immediately come to mind including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs.  Or from the past there are the leaders of Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Winston Churchill and others. Nevertheless during… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Evaluating Your Day

  By Dave Arch on March 6, 2020

  

  As a leader ends his/her day, it’s normal to ask a question of evaluation in terms of how successful the day might or might not have been. However, how that question is phrased in the mind of the leader has… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Factor “Ego Investment”

  By Dave Arch on November 3, 2019

  

  If the term “Ego Investment” is new to you, I’m confident the concept is not. The level of your own “ego investment” depends on how much time, energy, and financial resources you’ve sunk into a person or project.  The rule… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Managing Consistency

  By Dave Arch on July 11, 2019

  

  One of my earlier blog posts had to do with the Trust Equation.  That equation contains the indispensable quality of consistency in a leader of positive leadership behaviors if trust is to ever be given to that leader by a follower. However,… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Self Knowledge

  By Dave Arch on May 16, 2019

  

  Know Thyself according to Wikipedia was inscribed on temple entrances in ancient Egypt.  The truth of that statement has been subsequently reiterated by philosophers down through the ages. Here’s what continues to remain true today: If you know me better than… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Cynicism

  By Dave Arch on May 15, 2019

  

  An attitude of cynicism on the part of the leader can cripple that leader’s effectiveness.  Believing that stress (and hurt) is cumulative, over time life can deal more than enough blows for repeated bouts of grief of loss for the average… Read More ›