This past week our leadership team attended The Global Leadership Summit, and it was tremendous to hear some current global leaders discuss the mysteries of leadership. You can imagine the excitement I felt of receiving rather than presenting and how satisfying it was to have my emotional bucket filled. Here is just one small takeaway…
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Time Out!
This past week, I found myself working with several executives on change management. Not only were they trying to deal with change themselves, they were thinking about how to be helpful when others experience change. How exciting to observe the servant mindset with these executives as they were focused on helping others. The challenge is…
Time Out!
This past week, I was working with an executive team on time management. We started with a paradigm shift in answering the question, “Why work on ways to better utilize time?” After all, we get 1,440 minutes every day, and regardless of how effective we are, we get another 1,440 the next day. And…
Time Out!
The servant mindset is easy to understand yet hard to carry out. While working with an executive this week, we focused exclusively on the Dale Carnegie human relations principle to “Become genuinely interested in other people.” It is only natural to wonder how applying this principle will help us connect with others and come across…
Time Out!
It’s hard to believe people are talking about winter already. After all, we just celebrated Independence Day and winter is still 162 days away. Yet that’s exactly what happened as I heard an inspirational thought during the International Dale Carnegie Franchise Association meeting in Vienna this summer. Weather-wise, winter can be challenging for many of…
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What a great European vacation! Colleen and I spent over two weeks just seeing things we had only read or heard about, and now we have a completely new perspective and appreciation. Now that we are back, it seems as though we never left, and yet I am changed forever. First, thanks to Tom Mangan…
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I just received a text from a senior vice president who wrote, “Seems like my world is caving in.” Hmm…if you knew the back story you might agree. Now can you put on your servant lenses? As impossible as it might seem, the only way to stop the personal “cave in” is to focus on…
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Another fascinating week in Change Management — perhaps better framed as Change Leadership. It’s about selling the future state or the vision. Two major ideas arise when we put on our “servant” lenses and truly focus on others’ concerns and needs, thereby denying what we want to accomplish: It is not “what” but WHY! Communicate…
Time Out!
We need to hit the pause button. I recently heard a statistic that senior level executives who use smartphones work an average of 70 hours per week. Their productivity, however, has not increased in proportion to the additional time spent working. Fred Vornbrock, our GM, challenged our senior team to track our time for two…
Mid Week Mentor
Time Out! The art of becoming a servant leader. Just back from a great vacation in St. Croix with my wife, Colleen, where I successfully hit the pause button on work, but not life. One morning, we drove across the island and toured the Cruzan Rum Distillery. Here was my servant leadership takeaway —…