Leaders: Go Get the Best Talent (Finding Top Talent for Your Organization)

A job no one can do other than the leader is to find the best talent. The best talent is called top talent. As a leader, when you farm selecting the best talent out to […]

A Bad Attitude Makes a Bad Job

A job is what you make of it. A job is assigned work or tasks that require your energy and effort to complete. Many people make their job harder by bringing a bad attitude with […]

What Makes a Successful Organization

Ted Engstrom says, “The successful organization has one major attribute that sets it apart from unsuccessful organizations: dynamic and effective leadership.” Work requires energy. Leadership requires that energy be directed, leveraged and appropriated in a […]

How to Get Promoted – Common Mistakes Young Leaders Make

Do you want to get promoted? Most people do! Yes, most people who are working want a promotion. A few don’t, but the majority of the young leaders that I have worked with for over […]

The Power of the Pause

Many leaders today are simply worn out. With so much change, volatility and uncertainty, it is simply exhausting. What you are feeling are the effects of living in a chaotic, constantly changing environment. Chaos is […]

Leadership Lesson: Doing the Right Thing Makes the Biggest Difference

Leadership Lesson:  Doing the right thing always makes the biggest difference.  Don’t walk by wrong when you know what’s right. Don’t accept wrong, when you already know right. You don’t know right, you do right. You […]

Leadership Lesson: Leaders Don’t Work Alone

Leadership Lesson: Leaders don’t work alone. If all of your thought, effort and energy (the sun total of your work) are all done apart from those you lead, you will never be a truly effective […]

Getting the Lag out of Your Life

Lag is the difference between where you should be and where you actually are.  Lag isn’t what makes us lazy, but it is the condition that perpetuates procrastination, sloth and habitual tardiness. Lag is the […]

You are not a Leader if …

You are not a leader if you aren’t developing others.  “The growth and development of others is the highest calling of leadership” ~Harvey Firestone  Leadership is about development: both self and others. You can’t remain […]