Management

Are You a Transmitter or a Receiver?

The best leaders spend less time transmitting and more time receiving.

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Now Is the Time for Gen Y Leaders

If change continues at its current rate, let alone accelerates, leadership is going to get a lot more complex.

Management

Three New Leadership Lessons from Yoga

Apart from the physical and mental health benefits, one of the things I like about yoga is the opportunity it provides for making connections to the rest of the world.

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Three Questions They Should Have Asked at GSA

The GSA scandal story has taken off, I think, because most of us cannot believe that any federal manager would approve a budget that included $8,000 for a mind reader, $75,000 for a bicycle building team building exercise and $44 a person breakfasts.

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The Tao of Bubba Watson

The Master's champion seems like a guy who enjoys and savors life.

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How Do You Assess a Candidate’s Leadership Potential?

There’s an old saying that if you don’t know where you’re going, any road will get you there.

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Why I Don’t Believe in Work/Life Balance

I’m here to tell you that in an age of doing more with less – or in some cases, less with less – work/life balance is a myth.

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John Elway for Manager of the Year?

I’d have to put Denver Broncos GM in the running for manager of the year. And not just NFL manager of the year; anybody’s manager of the year.

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Does Life Imitate Art at Goldman Sachs?

When Greg Smith quit his job running a London based line of business for Goldman Sachs he acted out the fantasy of everyone who’s ever wanted to tell their employer what they really think of them as they walk out the door.

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What Kind of Weather are you Making?

For the past couple of years, I’ve had a lot of great conversations with my clients about the idea that leaders control the weather.

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Inspiring Your Workers

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Does Your Team Really Know What You Want?

Stephen Covey shared a lot of smart ideas when he wrote “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” I must have read that book at least five times when it first came out.

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Red Carpet Lessons in Keeping Your Cool

The most interesting part of the Oscar telecast last night happened before the awards show started.

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Leadership Lessons from DARPA

Last week, I had the opportunity to hear the director of DARPA, Regina Dugan, speak at a panel on leading innovation during a conference.