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Internal Leadership and Development Consultant at Tenaska and Executive Director Of The Omaha Magical Society.
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Graphic Leadership: A Replacement For Worry
No one less than Winston Churchill (who had more than a little to worry about during World War II) said, “Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning.” He knew that when we worry about something outside of our… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Live Intentionally
A leader lives and leads intentionally. Many others simply allow life to happen to them. A leader has goals and plans and the vitality to pull the trigger on their goals and plans. Many others are merely living life –… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Levels Of Thinking
When a leader finds that s/he has led his/her followers into a troublesome situation, s/he quickly realizes that s/he will need to call in outside counsel with different perspectives to solve the dilemma. For a leader to merely use his/her… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Lying To Yourself
Once a leader acknowledges how believably s/he can lie to himself/herself, there grows a new appreciation of the input from others in helping the leader see his/her own blind spots. The younger leader oftentimes isn’t sure s/he has any blind… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Escaping Old Ideas
Old ideas can become the enemies of new ideas. Old ideas have the power of familiarity. Our comfort zones have adjusted to old ideas. Changing from old ideas to new ideas will bring some pain with it. How to escape… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Your Hourly Wage
Whether you are paid by the hour or not, the wise leader knows what his/her hourly wage is by taking the amount of money s/he makes and dividing that dollar amount by the number of hours s/he works. This “hourly… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Invest In The Process
When dealing with a situation where the outcome is ultimately in the hands of others, the wise leader knows to not allow himself/herself or his/her followers to get their ego invested in the outcome. Instead the wise leader will encourage… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: The Firing Dance
In the steps prior to releasing a person, the leader oftentimes goes through a series of steps that might be called The Firing Dance. It is not unlike what a couple goes through prior to a divorce. This insight is… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Ungratefulness
Oftentimes managers complain to me about a sense of entitlement on the part of their direct reports. “It’s never enough” is how they might express it. As I’ve mentioned previously, “We teach people how to treat us.” Consequently, when a… Read More ›
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Graphic Leadership: Make Them Ask
When I was being mentored with a psychologist, I would watch him sit back in that first session with a new client and after hearing the sad story, he would ask a simple question: “What do you want from me?” … Read More ›
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