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

• Graphic Leadership: Be Present

  By Dave Arch on June 18, 2014

  

  How easy it is for a leader’s mind to drift to the future or the past never enjoying or being fully present in what’s going on in the present. In its simplest form, it probably happens when a listener is… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: A Thought

  By Dave Arch on May 30, 2014

  

  Thousands and thousands of thoughts pass through anyone’s mind in the course of a single day.  Robbing those thoughts of an unthinking and yet very potent power is the goal of this poster. When for example a thought proceeds along… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Impermanence

  By Dave Arch on May 30, 2014

  

  As a leader seeks to allocate his/her energy, s/he’s diligent to not give much of this finite resource to resisting the impermanence of life.  In his/her effort to pursue security (and who doesn’t) s/he doesn’t seek to find it by… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: The Leader’s Formal Education

  By Dave Arch on April 29, 2014

  

  While a leader understands the value of a formal education, s/he neither undervalues nor overvalues its contributions to their status as a leader. I have watched people with very strong (albeit raw) leadership skills who were so filled with self-doubt… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Why Do They Like You?

  By Dave Arch on April 22, 2014

  

  In what I consider to be the most significant posting in this series, I spoke to the importance of dividing your Identity from your Roles.  Please click HERE to revisit that posting. In order to accomplish that task, it is… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Defining Success

  By Dave Arch on April 15, 2014

  

  Although this poster specifically addresses an issue in the sales world, the principles on which it’s built is pertinent anytime someone seeks to create a definition of success around any project. On the left are definitions of success in which… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: The Leader’s Values

  By Dave Arch on April 13, 2014

  

  In the entry entitled Inner Drive, we spoke of four internal sources of energy in the life of a leader.  The leader’s Values was one of those drivers. Now this poster provides for us a tool for helping to define… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Your Younger Self

  By Dave Arch on April 8, 2014

  

  A leader learns from the past. Although at first read,  that might seem obvious, as you look around you’ll find many people who don’t learn from their pasts. That may be for several different reasons. Maybe they don’t make time… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Culture

  By Dave Arch on March 29, 2014

  

  Effective leaders are aware of the power inherent within an organization’s culture.  In this series of posters,  you get a sense for the varying cultures of the wealthy, middle class, and poor.  How difficult it would be to achieve success… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Team Building

  By Dave Arch on March 28, 2014

  

  There’s a team model that uses the acrostic C.A.R.E. to give it memorability. You can see it depicted in this poster using the letter prevalent in its other name The “Z” Model of team building. A project moves from a… Read More ›