Re-Focus On Your Core Strengths

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Re-Focus On Your Core Strengths

Sometimes circumstances require you to re-focus on your core business, your core strengths. And sometimes that’s not a bad thing!

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Change, Producing Results

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A Leader’s Job is to Reduce Uncertainty

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A Leader’s Job is to Reduce Uncertainty
[Tweet “Part of a leader’s job—a big part—is to reduce uncertainty.”]Leaders have many jobs within an organization: setting a vision, motivating a team, increasing profit, making the bed (home-based businesses only). But there’s a big one that a lot of leaders miss—and it’s one that I’ve become keenly aware of as I work with more and more leaders whose organizations are undergoing significant change.

One inevitable byproduct of change is uncertainty. Employees become, quite rationally, uncertain about what the change will ...

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Leadership, Producing Results, Teams

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Smart Leadership: The View from Outside

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Smart Leadership: The View from Outside

This weekend I’ll be in Utah speaking to a group of credit union leaders. Although I’m a credit union member, I’m not a credit union leader, nor do I work in the credit union industry.

Next week I’ll be in Michigan speaking to the staff of a company that makes, among other things, high-end wheelchairs. Although my sister uses a high-end wheelchair, I don’t work in the wheelchair industry.

The following week I’ll be in Tacoma speaking to a large health insurance ...

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Creativity, Producing Results

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The Leader’s Dilemma: “A” Decision, or “The Right” Decision?

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The Leader’s Dilemma: “A” Decision, or “The Right” Decision?

“As a leader, it’s more important to make a decision than to make the right decision.”

You’ve probably heard that adage before, or some version of it, but is it true?

In a word…yes.

(Those of you crunched for time may leave now.)

Okay, let’s be clear. Making the right decision is Plan A. It’s what you’re shooting for. It’s the perfect world.

But the world isn’t perfect. Sometimes…

  • …you don’t have all the information you need.
  • …you don’t have all the time you need.
  • …there is no ...
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Leadership, Producing Results

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