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When’s the last time you attended a workshop or a conference?  Did you experience what I call the “Knew That/Do That” Phenomenon?  Meaning—that at some point during the event, you experienced the reaction of “I already knew that” or “I already do that”.  For those of us who are (ahem) “seasoned” professionals, this is a [...]

Let me ask you a question.  What do you do? I am a teacher. How did you describe yourself?  Are you a CEO or a bank teller, a Vice President of Accounting or a consultant, a Human Resources Manager or a lawyer, a Chief of Surgery or an artist? I am also the Math Department [...]

Note: This post was originally posted as “What If Leadership Was More Than A Buzzword?” on my N2Growth blog in July of 2010.  The question is still valid. What if “Leadership” was more than a buzzword? What If…What if leadership was more than just another contentious term bantered around in meaningless conversations? What if leadership was truly understood, [...]

Dan McCarthy (@GreatLeadership) has posted the September Leadership Development Carnival – Football Edition over at his Great Leadership blog.  Some of the posts by members of the group included: Erin Schreyer’s What Really Makes You a Leader? here on LeadChange; Jane Perdue’s Excellence – 1; Perfection – 0 at Get Your Leadership Big On; Jennifer [...]

“Leading UP – Put the Straw Away.“ Episode 3 of the Leadership Character Webinar Series is presented by Jane Perdue (@thehrgoddess).  It will be offered on September 21, 2010 at 3 PM Eastern. One of the definitions for “leader” in the World English Dictionary is “a person who rules, guides, or inspires others.” Other words [...]

Social media, as with most things in life, can be exploited for personal gain or maximized as a tool for sharing, giving and inspiring others to live to their biggest and best potential. Are you in it to win it – for yourself, or for others? It’s that simple, and that complicated. At one end [...]

As a lad, I lived for Saturday morning cartoons. Long before DVR, a boy needed an alarm clock catch the Super-Friends at 6 AM. And though a wide assortment of cartoons whizzed by until Noon, there was a consistent message throughout: “They’re GREAT!”  See that was the catch-phrase of Tony the Tiger, the cartoon pitchman [...]

I was reminded this morning of the potential for good and bad through social media. I read these two posts (here, and one written to Christians here) about the narcissistic nature of involvement in social media and they made me think. With a bit of reflection, I am challenged to keep the focus of my [...]

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to contribute a post to a series conceived and published by Lead Change member Shawn Murphy called Wake Up and Shake It Up. The series was an eye-opener for several reasons. First, several Lead Change Group members contributed to the great series. In addition me and Shawn, [...]

The definitions of words intrigue me. Words can have multiple meanings. Think of one quick (clean) example, the word coast. It can mean someplace we hope the oil doesn’t ruin or it can mean to neither accelerate or brake (as opposed to break). I’ve spoken before about character-based leadership as leading from who you are [...]