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 ›
Authority Relationships
Graphic Leadership: Culture
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: Collaboration
Beyond cooperation (not stepping on each other’s feet) lies the ellusive world of collaboration where individual units of a team or company actually leverage the strengths of each other to attain greater success. In this poster, only one of the… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: A Right-Fighter
Have you ever experienced this dilemma? You can be acknowledged as being right in your position/opinion and lose the relationship or you can not be acknowledged as being right and keep the relationship. A Right-Fighter tends towards always insisting on… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Emotional Expensiveness
Although the term Emotional Expensiveness might be new, no leader has any problem relating to its meaning. There are consistently some followers (or employees) who could be termed High Maintenance or Emotionally Expensive. The leader knows that first s/he attempts… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: The Should Box
“He shouldn’t be that way.” “She shouldn’t treat me that way.” “It shouldn’t have turned out that way.” “He shouldn’t feel that way.” Some people live out their lives in a cement block “Should Box” – greatly limiting what they… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Give Advice By Asking Questions
As we saw in a previous poster entitled Unsolicited Advice, “Unsolicited advice can be viewed as criticism.” Nevertheless, there are times when we wish to give another peer or even superior advice. What approach does a leader use? If a… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Languages Of Appreciation
It started out as a book called Love Languages in which the author spoke about the different ways each of us receive praise, receive compliments, receive affirmations. For some, it’s words. You could just tell me, “Good job Dave, it… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Intimidation
We all know the feeling. As you look at this poster, you’ll see that intimidation can have many roots. You might be intimidated by people of wealth, authority, beauty, height, success, age, knowledge, or something not even on the poster…. Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Organizational Growth Stages
I was thrilled to find that there is a model to organizational growth that allows leaders to predict what’s coming next and see where they are as an organization in those five stages of growth. The garage phase is where… Read More ›