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What Are You Avoiding? – What Conversations Are You Avoiding?

Your central function is to engineer intelligent, spirited conversations… Susan Scott, Fierce Leadership ————— “Your central function is to engineer …conversations.” Here’s more of the quote: Your central function is to engineer intelligent, spirited conversations… Do not, under any circumstances, tell a lie – of either commission or omission.  Do not stretch the truth, exaggerate,… Read More What Are You Avoiding? – What Conversations Are You Avoiding?

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Conversations: Crucial Conversations, Fierce Conversations – Have those Conversations!

As I have written many times, “you accomplish what you meet about.”  (I learn this and have this reinforced from so many sources, but it is especially described in vivid detail, with a clear action plan, in the excellent book Mastering the Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish). Meetings are simply well planned conversations.  And conversations… Read More Conversations: Crucial Conversations, Fierce Conversations – Have those Conversations!

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Here’s a Suggested Reading List for Leadership Development (for 2011) – Now, with Update

Let me help you plan your reading for 2011. The issue is… Leadership Development. Look at those words.  Think about them.  They say a lot.  Mainly they say this – leaders have to be developed, and leaders have to focus on, and work on, continual development.  This does not happen by accident.  Some leaders may… Read More Here’s a Suggested Reading List for Leadership Development (for 2011) – Now, with Update

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Coaching Anyone? – Some Practical Ideas You Can Use Right Now

Recently, I delivered my synopsis on the now classic Encouraging the Heart: A Leaders Guide to Rewarding and Encouraging Others by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Pozner. From the book, here are the seven essentials of encouraging: 1.              Set clear standards 2.              Expect the best 3.              Pay attention 4.              Personalize recognition 5.              Tell the… Read More Coaching Anyone? – Some Practical Ideas You Can Use Right Now

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“A Blinding Flash of the Fricking Obvious” – some important reminders

In Susan Scott’s book, Fierce Leadership, she writes that she is going to name her next book “The Complete Guide to the Fricking Obvious.” Here’s my experience:  most “wisdom,” most books, teach me little.  But they do a lot of reminding — and what they remind me of is usually pretty obvious.  (So — as… Read More “A Blinding Flash of the Fricking Obvious” – some important reminders

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Knowing is Easy — Doing is Much More Difficult (Maybe “The” Lesson of Switch)

“Knowledge does not change behavior.” (Jerry Sternin, working for Save the Children). Quoted in Switch: How To Change Things When Change is Hard by Chip Heath & Dan Heath. I have really been struck with the lessons that I learned — or maybe, the truths that were reinforced – in Switch. In fact, to borrow… Read More Knowing is Easy — Doing is Much More Difficult (Maybe “The” Lesson of Switch)

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The Three Primary Derailers (for a business, and an individual) – these can really bring you down {more insight from Susan Scott’s Fierce Leadership}

(A note from Randy:  it is common to see me “revisiting” points from books, or the books themselves, on this blog.  This is partly due to the fact that I present my synopses of some of these books multiple times.  And sometimes, the books have enough different points, and are just that good, that I… Read More The Three Primary Derailers (for a business, and an individual) – these can really bring you down {more insight from Susan Scott’s Fierce Leadership}

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Memo to Members of the Executive Leadership Team – Mix and Mingle and Listen to All of your Folks

Business books, business book authors, and regular folks all agree – there is too much segregation in the workplace.  I’m not talking about racial or ethnic segregation, but rather segregation between leaders and the people they need to be leading. I have noticed this is at companies where we speak.   If a company brings us… Read More Memo to Members of the Executive Leadership Team – Mix and Mingle and Listen to All of your Folks

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