These articles about leadership improvement are offered to you at no charge. They were written by Don Blohowiak of the Lead Well Institute which specializes in custom leadership development.
Information about permission to publish these leadership articles is provided at the end of each piece.
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Fired or refused to hire any consultants lately?
According to all accounts, it's tough out there in consultantland.
Most consultants, in their quiet, honest moments, say things like these words from a tired, defeatist organizational consultant in the southwestern U.S., "It's painfully slow r... |
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"Until I deal with the why, I don't really know the how." -- Alton Brown
There is a nearly unimaginable number of instructional, how-to, and self-help books on management, leadership, and self-development topics.
But success in an organization --- and i... |
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Enron, the infamous energy company, is still very much operating and collecting fees from customers while not paying many creditors.
Soooo it has amassed billions in cash and attracted flocks of fee-hungry vultures with law degrees.
The bankruptcy proceedings, as chronicled by the New York T... |
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What does a running start up the mountain get you?
Tired faster!
When you start your push hard and fast, it's easy to run out of energy sooner --- and take longer to regenerate momentum (if you can manage to regroup at all).
The bigger the undertaking, the more effective a slower, more delibera... |
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Guest Thinker Phil Van
Hooser:
When first promoted to a supervisory capacity,did you receive the
following well-meaning advice? 'Don't get too close to your people. If you do,
you won't be able to make objective decisions concerning them.'
No matter how well-meaning this advice may h... |
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We have many Dilbert-like expressions in our informal business vernacular: No good deed goes unpunished. We don't do this-or-that because it would make too much sense. The tail is wagging the dog...I just experienced one of those moments that gives rise to the cynics. After using the trial... |
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I moved my hands back and forth under the airport washroom sink. Nothing. I moved to the next sink. Same thing. Nothing.The attendant cleaning the sink next to where I stood in dry frustration said, "Push the top." I looked down at the faucet and realized that it had a push valve to releas... |
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The drive for process efficiency is relentless in many operations. Getting the work done faster, more efficiently, with less waste of resources is a never-ending push.One way to gain efficiency is to stop doing some tasks.To identify targets ripe for a cease and desist action, ask these qu... |
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I read leadership books as an occupational preoccupation. But I'm not reading Rudy Giuliani's not-so-humbly titled memoir Leadership. I have nothing against Hizzoner. He was a visible stalwart of stability during a very dark hour for the USA last year.BUT... The admirable Mr. Giuliani is n... |
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While 77 percent of major American companies said they had a leadership development process, less than a third of them believed it was effective, according to consulting firm Hewitt Associates cited in Sunday's New York Times."There's an underwhelming level of investment in developing grea... |
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Take any machine --- from a blender to an automobile to a jet fighter --- and run it at maximum capacity. Wide open. Full out.How long can you maintain the intensity of output before there is trouble?Naturally, that varies. But one thing is certain. Push relentlessly in the Zone of Maximum... |
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