It’s been said, “Leadership is not what you do, but who you are.” This, however, is only partially true. Leadership is very much who you are, but it cannot be divorced from what you do. Who you are represents the inner person, and what you do represents the outer person.…
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How to Put a Little Z.I.P. Into Your Relationships
Through the years I have spent hundreds of hours working with people in their relationships: Marriages, friendships, working relationships and social relationships. Through it all I have seen some wonderful things and some terrible things. It truly is the good, the bad and the ugly! But I have been able…
Continue Reading....Five Tips For Creating Successful Habits
Fully 95% of everything you accomplish, or fail to accomplish, will be determined by your habits, either good or bad. Successful people have good habits that guide and direct them to ever greater success. Unsuccessful people have bad habits that trip them up throughout their lives. Here are five things that…
Continue Reading....You Are Called Victor
I went to a memorial service this Tuesday morning for my friend. He was a man who helped take care of my mother in the final, difficult stages of her life. He was a quite serving leader and he reminded me there are many people around us who step in…
Continue Reading....What Do You Do for a Living?
Too many people miss the point of what they do. They spend all day working hard at their jobs and forget what they are trying to accomplish as a business. This thought came to me as I was getting ready to work out at my local gym. As I was…
Continue Reading....Gaining Visibility
Have you noticed that some workers receive more promotions and greater pay than do their colleagues? This, despite the fact that they are apparently not even as competent. This doesn’t seem fair. Why should some people get ahead when others who seem to be working far harder, and even longer…
Continue Reading....Rich Results – Discover Your Personal Truth
Growing up most of us were taught to tell the truth. Remember: “Honesty is the best policy”. But as time passed we watched adults lie and get away with it. We learned that sometimes when you tell the truth people get upset. And because most people want to avoid confrontation…
Continue Reading....Stay Focused on the Big Picture
A reader of this column sent me an email recently, thanking me for a column I had written on getting outside the box. She then told me how she had lost focus for a while, but had turned things around. She encouraged me to write a column on staying focused.…
Continue Reading....Who are you?
How do you define a life-threatening situation? Is it when someone pulls a knife on you? Or when someone has taken your future away by taking your savings? Most people consider a life threatening situation one where you’re facing immediate death. What about when you don’t have the financial resources…
Continue Reading....The Qualities of Skillful Leadership
If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself. Leadership is the ability to attract someone to the gifts, skills, and opportunities you offer as an owner, as a manager, as a parent. I call leadership the great…
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