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

• Graphic Leadership: Separating Standards From Expectations

  By Dave Arch on June 29, 2018

  

  I admire people with high standards to which they hold themselves and oftentimes others.  It has been my experience that more than a few people do not demand very much from themselves and consequently never rise to the leadership proficiency… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: More Than My Share

  By Dave Arch on May 2, 2018

  

  Maintaining a spirit of gratefulness can be challenging for most leaders.  Yet the leader will be hard-pressed to find a more significant internal energy source for meeting the demands of his/her responsibilities. In generating a spirit of gratefulness, there is… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership:  Ten Strategies For Success

  By Dave Arch on July 15, 2017

  

  Here’s a list of ten behaviors that must be left behind if a leader is to attain and then maintain success. A beneficial exercise is to take each item on the list individually seeking to articulate your theories behind why… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Tyranny Of The Urgent

  By Dave Arch on April 14, 2016

  

  The Tyranny Of The Urgent is a small booklet I read in college.  Then in reading Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, I’m reminded of this theme again. Spending time visiting with my spouse is seldom urgent but always… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: The Reaction Continuum

  By Dave Arch on January 17, 2016

  A leader understands that not only does s/he have a choice as to whether or not to react to any situation but also how intense that response will be. The extremes of this continuum are the most intense (and also… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Adrenaline

  By Dave Arch on January 17, 2016

  That drug that’s released to bring us extra energy during a crisis or a euphoric high in a moment of elation can be addictive to a leader. The leader may intensify a situation to either be worse than it really… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Responses

  By Dave Arch on January 10, 2016

  

  As much as news media and advertisers would have you believe differently, every situation that you encounter is not owed a response on your part.  In fact responding to every situation a leader encounters leads to an unnecessary drain of… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Nature vs. Nurture

  By Dave Arch on December 28, 2015

  

  H.H. Horn in the book Idealism In Education makes the statement found in this poster. Leaders realize that not everyone comes from an equally strong gene pool – bestowing a variety of capacities upon his/her followers. Likewise, leaders realize that not… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: The Happiness Check

  By Dave Arch on December 28, 2015

  

  Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that happiness can be determined by how you answer three basic questions:  What do I need (as opposed to want) in life? What can others psychologically (versus physically) do to me? What does the world owe… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Experiencing Life

  By Dave Arch on December 28, 2015

  

  Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that life is to be experienced not necessarily reacted to. Leaders understand that being reactionary is incongruent with being a leader.  A leader acts not reacts. Nevertheless, the discipline necessary to break the habit of knee… Read More ›