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10 Tips To Help You Become A CEO

March 24, 2021

Making the leap from entrepreneur to CEO isn’t always an easy journey. I’ve seen many people struggle with this transition. Leadership is not something you are born with; it is something you…

What Is Leadership Responsibility?

January 15, 2021

We need leaders to reclaim the positive leadership narrative and model responsible behavior. We need leaders in charge who genuinely care about other people and want to make the world a…

Leader versus Anti-Leader

November 1, 2020

We are certainly in trying times. It feels like a period where our country is crying out for leadership. And, sadly, leadership seems to have taken a vacation. …

Business Advice for Navigating the Current Environment (from a Seasoned Executive Coach)

September 23, 2020

I have the good fortune of working with over 50 businesses on a regular basis. I get to see the good, the bad and the ugly when it comes to leadership…

The Five Benefits of Constructive Dissent

August 16, 2020

In my twenty plus years of advising leaders, I have noticed the following five benefits of encouraging dissent in your leadership discussions:…

Focus Your Time Well and Fulfill Your Commitments

July 17, 2020

High impact leaders focus on doing the right things well and consistently live up to their commitments especially when it is hard. You don’t ever have to worry about their personal…

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Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

August 25, 2020

Chapter 1 – Weapons of Influence They (ethologists) have begun to identify regular, blindly, mechanical patterns of action in a wide variety of species…Called fixed-action patterns, they can involve intricate sequences of…

Leadership: Essential Writings By Our Greatest Thinkers edited by Elizabeth D. Samet

August 23, 2020

STUDYING THE SYSTEM “Our little systems have their day.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson In Organizational Culture and Leadership, Edgar Schein offers the following taxonomy: (1) visible artifacts; (2) espoused beliefs, values, rules,…

Leadership In War By Andrew Roberts

July 5, 2020

Chapter 1: Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon recognized that the best way to inspire his people was through two means: imbuing people with the belief that they were fighting for honor and ideology,…

The One Thing by Gary Keller

July 4, 2020

Chapter 1: The ONE Thing “What’s the ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?” “Where I’d had huge success,…

Small Giants by Bo Burlingham

July 4, 2020

Introduction …they have chosen not to focus on revenue growth or geographical expansion, pursuing instead other goals they consider more important than getting as big as possible, as fast as possible….

How The Mighty Fall by Jim Collins

June 23, 2020

Five Stages of Decline: Hubris Born of Success Undisciplined Pursuit of More Denial of Risk and Peril Grasping for Salvation Capitulation to Irreverence or Death “The concept of hubris is…

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Navigating The Leadership Lifecyle Workshop Presentation

Executive Coaching, General Business, Leadership, Strategy, Your Leadership Role

Management Improvement Ideas

General Business, Leadership, Operations, Your Actions, Your Leadership Role

Leader/Business Owner Balance Sheet

Executive Coaching, Leadership, Your Leadership Role

Key Executive Self-Assessment Tool

Executive Coaching, Human Resources (HR), Leadership, Your Leadership Role

CEO Hourly Time Audit – based on Time Really Is Money

Leadership, Your Actions, Your Leadership Role

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Ken Blanchard – Servant Leadership

Leadership, Your Leadership Role, Your Relationships

11 Habits of Successful CEOs

General Business, Leadership, Your Actions, Your Decisions, Your Leadership Role

Favorite Articles

• Psychological Safety and the Critical Role of Leadership Development

• Doing vs. Being: Practical lessons on building an agile culture

• Closing the Strategy Execution Gap Means Focusing on What Employees Think, Not What They Do

• Strategy Essentials You Ignore at Your Peril

• The Values Effect: How To build a lasting competitive advantage through your values and purpose in a digital age

• M&A: The One Thing You Need To Get Right

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London Business Forum

Membership organization that provides live event and online learning trainings for leaders and managers.

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Harvard Business Review

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JimCollins.com

Free access to videos, audios, articles, & tools to aid in understanding and applying the ideas from Jim CollinÕs books and research to both business and life

JohnMaxwell.com

the official website of of leadership expert/author John Maxwell

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