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Leaders Know - Treating Everyone Equally is Not Fair!

I felt I was having a “nails-on-the-chalkboard” experience. The consultant from ABC Company had just completed an excellent 10-minute presentation of his firm’s six-month project (to recommend how to improve XYZ Company’s overall brand). A prolonged discussion followed as a few of the XYZ Company executives shared their opinions regarding colors on a brochure, . . . → Read More: Leaders Know – Treating Everyone Equally is Not Fair!

The Worst Way for a Leader to Walk Into a Meeting!

The 12 of us shuffled into the jury room. I plopped into my chair with a heavy sigh, wondering (selfishly) how much my work would suffer while I fulfilled my jury obligation. My mind was snapped to attention as a middle-aged, well groomed male at the end of the table reminded us that the . . . → Read More: The Worst Way for a Leader to Walk Into a Meeting!

How Leaders Conduct Effective Meetings

Imagine you and a close friend have a difficult situation that you need to address, how would you handle it? Would you sit down, have a meaningful dialogue so you both feel heard, then agree on how to deal with it? If so, congratulations, you’ve employed an effective strategy to achieve a desired result . . . → Read More: How Leaders Conduct Effective Meetings…

Leaders Apply What They Learn From ANY Meeting

How Do Leaders Use It, and NOT Lose It?

How often have you (or one of your direct reports) attended an excellent course, seminar, or workshop, then returned to work and failed to apply what you learned? It happens to all of us. Why? There are a number of reasons why . . . → Read More: Leaders Apply What They Learn From ANY Meeting

Four Leadership Secrets of Effective Meetings

“Either one meets or one works. One cannot do both.” So says management guru Peter Drucker in his book, The Effective Executive. He points out that the only reason we really meet is that “the knowledge needed in a specific situation is not available in one head.” Of course, there are times when we . . . → Read More: Four Leadership Secrets of Effective Meetings