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

• Graphic Leadership: Other’s Emotions

  By Dave Arch on July 17, 2013

  

  A leader understands the temptation to express other’s emotions for them. They might be staying calm in the situation. However, the leader might get so angry at the manner in which the follower was treated that s/he goes on and… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Discomfort Won’t Kill You

  By Dave Arch on July 16, 2013

  

  Dare to stare discomfort in the face.  In fact, stare it down.  It won’t kill you.  However, if you don’t stare it down, it might.  It might kill your joy, your enthusiasm, and your personal growth and satisfaction from life…. Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Failures and Success

  By Dave Arch on July 11, 2013

  

  Abraham Lincoln demonstrates this in a rather dramatic fashion. 1816: His family was forced out of their home. Abraham Lincoln’s father, Thomas, had owned farmland in Hardin County, Kentucky, since the early 1800s, and he left Kentucky and moved his… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Your Castle

  By Dave Arch on July 9, 2013

  

  Reminiscent of the Identity vs. Role leadership poster, David Sandler reminds us that we are safe inside our personal castle into which no one can enter without our permission. Too many people make no distinction between their “inside world” –… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Be The Person

  By Dave Arch on July 9, 2013

  

  Although this was originally given as a piece of dating advice in that an individual who’s seeking the “right person” for marriage needs to focus on being the person the person they’re looking for is looking for; it’s application to… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Levels Of Motivation

  By Dave Arch on July 8, 2013

  

  In Patrick Lencioni’s book entitled The Three Signs Of A Miserable Job, he says that a job in which a person feels anonymous, thinks his/her job doesn’t matter, and has no way to assess their own progress will eventually leave… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Delayed Gratification

  By Dave Arch on July 8, 2013

  In this poster, you see a marathon runner passing restaurant after restaurant with the finish line clearly in her sights – delaying the instant gratification of stopping and walking into one of the restaurants for a delicious piece of apple… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Not What It Would Be

  By Dave Arch on June 19, 2013

  

  As a leader matures, s/he begins to recognize that in so many situations, those situations are never fixed. They are only managed. Many times the leader is called upon to salvage all the good s/he can from a less than… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Don’t Ride The Ride

  By Dave Arch on June 18, 2013

  

  All leaders will attract “adrenaline junkies” into their ranks from time to time. To these folks adrenaline is the drug of choice, and they know just how much drama they need in their life to keep the drug flowing. Usually… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Mutual Mystification

  By Dave Arch on June 16, 2013

  

  David Sandler gave us a short but wise reminder as part of the Sandler Sales System™ when he admonished us with the words, “No Mutual Mystification.” That simply means that in a healthy/non-dysfunctional conversation between two or more adults, all… Read More ›