Why do so many leaders find it difficult to engage their team? One of the reasons is that they don’t give their teams anything to be engaged about.
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How to Engage Your Team
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Because I apparently have trouble saying no, I’ve been a member of several boards of directors (or, in some cases, boards of trustees, although the differences, as far as I could tell, were negligible). Some of these boards were more dysfunctional than others. Eventually I noticed that as the size of the board increased (i.e., number of people), so did the dysfunction. According to the research, the same is true of nearly all work teams.
So now, as a writer, I ...
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Are You an Amateur or a Professional?
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What can a concert pianist teach us about business? Nothing much…just the difference between being an amateur and being a professional.
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The Leadership/Weightlifting Connection
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So I’m at the gym this morning, lifting a few weights and doing my best to avoid (or at least postpone) decrepitude, and at one point I turned to the person next to me and said, “How come this never gets any easier?” He laughed appreciatively at my joke (in my mind that’s what he did; in reality he looked at me, blinked, and then moved over to a different station across the room), and I went back to my ...
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The Screwy Math of Achievement
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When does 10×20=8? Well, in the world of producing results, sometimes the math can be screwy!
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How Complacency Can Kill You
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Last week I wrote about something my FAA flight examiner said as he signed me off for my pilot’s license: “This is a license to learn. It doesn’t mean you know everything.”
This week I want to tell you what he said immediately after that.
First of all, a little background. I got my pilot’s license after about 50 hours of flight time. (You must have a minimum of 40 hours before you’re eligible ...
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Failure IS An Option
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“Failure is NOT an option!” Have you heard this? There’s only one problem. It’s almost never true.
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For Leaders: A License to Learn
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I got my pilot’s license back in 1984 (which is amazing, because normally they don’t allow 3-year olds to fly airplanes). When the FAA examiner signed my logbook certifying that I was now an official, licensed private pilot, he said something to me that I didn’t take all that seriously at the time. What he said was:
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Do you ever wonder why you’re not getting the results you want with your team? This could be one possible answer.
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4 Traits of Great Leaders
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The cover story in the current issue of Fortune magazine is “The World’s 50 Greatest Leaders.” Once again, I didn’t make the cut. I suppose it’s possible that I’m number 51, but my guess is that I’m further down the list.
But the story got me thinking: what makes a great leader? What are the skills that the truly effective leaders ...
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