Category: Leadership Development

Are you improving the way you lead? How do you know?

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When you decide to lose weight, you use a scale to measure your progress. Without that, you don’t have a way to know if you’re losing weight or not. What about your quest to become a better leader? What can you use to measure your progress? That’s a more difficult question because there is no leadership scale that  »  Read More

Leadership lessons from C. F. Martin

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The C. F. Martin Guitar Company sold their first guitar in 1833. They’ve had a quality reputation and family ownership since the beginning.  Here’s a quote from their 1904 catalog: “How to build a guitar to give this tone is not a secret. It takes care and patience. Care in selecting materials, laying out the  »  Read More

Practicing Leadership

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First, we said, “Practice makes perfect.” Then, we heard about Anders Ericsson and “deliberate practice.” It turned out that deliberate practice was only good for certain fields. For deliberate practice to work you needed a recognized body of knowledge. You needed standard training methods. And you  »  Read More

Leadership and a Quart of Bourbon a Day

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Books and speakers and motivational posters tell us to copy what great leaders do so we can be great too. Whenever I hear that advice, I think about Herb Kelleher. The founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines changed the industry. He made it possible for more people to fly than ever before. He also created and led an airline  »  Read More

Leadership Reading to Start Your Week: 2/13/17

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Here are choice articles on hot leadership topics culled from the business schools, the business press and major consulting firms, to start off your work week. I’m pointing you to articles about leadership, strategy, industries, innovation, women and work, and work and learning now and in the future. Highlights  »  Read More

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