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Team members love change — if they initiate the change. Unfortunately, most of us spend a good part of our work life making our way through change we did not […]
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The nature of change is that it produces fear──fear of losing the familiar and fear of the new and unknown. So change requires courage. Leaders know that courage is not
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Most team members have tasks they enjoy more than others. They rarely assess the continued value of what they like doing. Leaders know the value of a task is dynamic
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Leaders value truth. They understand that the greatest courtesy they can extend to their team is to speak the truth about performance. Leaders avoid falling into the trap of misplaced
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Choosing what is clearly right earns the respect of others. However, the decisions a leader has to make frequently have no clearly right or clearly wrong choice. When a leader
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Once upon a time I heard a good and decent man offer this advice: Make your life your argument. Among leaders it is a shared wisdom. Because leaders know that
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A basic principle of the language arts is that you cannot define a word by using the word. For example, you cannot define complacent by saying: Complacent means to be
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It takes ten times longer to put yourself back together than it does to fall apart. Leaders know the wiser, more efficient, course is to keep one’s head to start
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For untold centuries, one of the most important trees in the American food chain and in forests from Maine to Mississippi was the wild American Chestnut tree. Estimates show there
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Marvin Pipkin was a legendary engineer at General Electric. When he first got started at GE, a few of the other engineers decided to play a joke on him. They