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Flip the 9-Box: What Servant Leaders See That Most Managers Miss

Picture the scene: it’s Q4 talent review time. The leadership team is gathered around a conference table — or a Zoom grid of tired faces — and someone pulls up the classic 3×3 nine-box grid. Names get written in boxes. Conversations happen in hushed tones. People get quietly labeled as “high potentials” or “low performers,” and most of them will never know exactly where they landed. It’s a…

Flip the 9-Box: What Servant Leaders See That Most Managers Miss

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8 Warning Signs That Your Supervisor is Incompetent

We have all had bad bosses, but how do we know if our supervisor is really a bad one? Here are 8 warnings signs that your boss can’t do the job, along with ideas about what a great supervisor should look like. 1. Never Has Time for You. Is your supervisor “too busy” to meet, even when it is important, or does he or she cancel when a meeting has been scheduled? Good supervision means being…

8 Warning Signs That Your Supervisor is Incompetent

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Ways to Explore the Power of Your Mind's Attention and Your Heart's Affection

As a leader, you have so mnay chocies to make. People, process, product and performance issues surround you. Making the best choice can be difficult. However, nothing can be more powerful than the exact moment you harness the power of your mind’s attention and your heart’s affection. Projects, life changes, new directions, and many other parts of our life can become monumental successes when…

Ways to Explore the Power of Your Mind's Attention and Your Heart's Affection

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Leading Change: An Old Model Reveals New Ideas

Business leaders know the challenge it can be to lead change. When there is a new announcement about something changing, you can often hear the groans that arise. Work teams of all kinds resist change. Understanding ways to overcome the resistance can be a leader’ s best answer in times of change. As I’ve mentioned before, managing change can be very darn difficult. Within the body of change…

Leading Change: An Old Model Reveals New Ideas

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Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow

We’ve all heard various ideas about managing our lives. When you break it all down, things can get lumped into these three categories. And we’ve all heard the saying: “Live for today.” But what about yesterday and tomorrow? Life isn’t a series of isolated moments. It’s a beautiful tapestry woven from the threads of our past, present, and future. Learning from Yesterday Dwelling on past mistakes…

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Lessons in Leadership: Soaring with the Winds of Life

  In learning how to fly an airplane, one of the first lessons has to do with understanding winds. Winds come in basically three types; Head winds – those hit you right in the face Tail winds – those from behind Cross winds – those at angles from the side I believe the challenges we face in life and in business model these three types of wind as well. If we consider all the forms of challenge…

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Making Things Bigger Than They Really Are

Do you sometimes make things bigger than they really are? Managers and leaders need to be on watch for overstating what is going on. More importantly, they need to throttle their internal reaction to the things around them. The great social activist Chicken Little was quoted as saying “The sky is falling” when he had merely been struck in the head by a falling acorn. Blowing things out of…

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THIS JAGUAR XJ-S IS NOT MY CAR

The XJ-S was introduced on 10 September 1975. The design and development had begun in the late 1960s by the code name of project XJ27, with an initial shape penned by Malcolm Sayer ..

BUT I LIKE IT The XJ-S was introduced on 10 September 1975. The design and development had begun in the late 1960s by the code name of project XJ27, with an initial shape penned by Malcolm Sayer, but after his death in 1970 it was completed by the in-house Jaguar design team, headed by Doug Thorpe. Power came from the Jaguar V12 engine with a choice of a manual or an automatic transmission, but…

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