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

• Graphic Leadership: The Tombstone Test

  By Dave Arch on May 5, 2013

  

  It’s a simple exercise that can yield profound results. “What do you want written on your tombstone following your death?” Your answer to that question will bring to the surface those values that are most important to you – those… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Think Like A Franchisor

  By Dave Arch on May 3, 2013

  

  A benefit of my owning a Sandler Sales Training franchise for the past ten years has been the processes that have been tested, proven, and documented by the franchisor for replication throughout the franchise network. As a leader matures s/he… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Planning

  By Dave Arch on May 3, 2013

  

  I love quotes where I can’t understand the meaning and its application without reading it more than once.  Here is certainly one of those. Statistics indicate that 10% of those in America have specific goals they wish to achieve.  Even… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: Self Employed

  By Dave Arch on May 2, 2013

  

  Whether the government recognizes them as such or not, leaders view themselves as self employed. They view themselves as CEO’s of their own company named after themselves with themselves in position as CEO. They are responsible for the profitability of… Read More ›

• Graphic Leadership: A Replacement For Worry

  By Dave Arch on May 2, 2013

  

  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 ›

• Graphic Leadership: Live Intentionally

  By Dave Arch on May 2, 2013

  

  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 ›

• Graphic Leadership: Levels Of Thinking

  By Dave Arch on May 1, 2013

  

  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 ›

• Graphic Leadership: Lying To Yourself

  By Dave Arch on May 1, 2013

  

  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 ›

• Graphic Leadership: Escaping Old Ideas

  By Dave Arch on May 1, 2013

  

  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 ›

• Graphic Leadership: Your Hourly Wage

  By Dave Arch on April 28, 2013

  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 ›