Experience eventually teaches a magic club that without at least a 20% margin, shrinkage begins to occur. • Once a magic club’s meeting room consistently fills to 80% of its capacity, members will start taking turns coming to the meetings;… Read More ›
Goal Orientation
Graphic Leadership: Evaluating Your Day
As a leader ends his/her day, it’s normal to ask a question of evaluation in terms of how successful the day might or might not have been. However, how that question is phrased in the mind of the leader has… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: No One Will Pay You
There are phases/chapters of a leader’s life that can distract him/her from the truly important things in life. In the intense daily focus on paying the mortgage, putting food on the table, and clothes on the backs of our family,… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Three Perspectives
The first perspective has much to do with the present and what you believe you deserve. It’s the bedrock of gratitude. A sense of entitlement only gets in its way. The second perspective has to do with the future and… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Standard of Living vs. Quality of Life
Isn’t it obvious when you say it aloud? However, lurking in the shadows of our belief system might easily and understandably be the very opposite of this equation, and the leader begins to pursue a higher standard of living believing that… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Hockey and Leadership
The truly great hockey player, Wayne Gretzky, said it well when he said, “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” To the leader it means a sure way to fail is to not try. Consequently, the strong leader… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: How To Not Motivate
In an attempt to motivate, it is not unusual for leaders with the very best of intentions to turn to a counter-productive approach. S/he challenges the followers to reach for a certain level of performance. Upon reaching that level, the… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Your Job To Life Ratio
This poster helps the leader make a crucial assessment in a graphic manner. The oval represents the entirety of your life. Take a moment to draw a rectangle inside the oval to depict through its size how much of your… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Defining Success
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
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 ›