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Tribal Leadership

November 12, 2009 · 13 comments

in Leadership Development, Partnerships, Resources

tribal leadershipI’ve just finished listening to a book called Tribal Leadership Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright. I listened to an abridged audio version of the book that you can get for FREE! here, compliments of Zappos.com

The authors define a tribe as a group of up to 150 people that share time and common interests.  You’re in several. Those tribes, however, all fall into 5 stages, characterized by their prevailing attitudes.  [click to continue…]

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Unique Difference

October 2, 2009 · 24 comments

in Leadership Development

What does it take to be truly unique? What do you do that no one can reproduce?

A meeting I had this week caused me to think a great deal about this. This person said that they sought out people who were truly unique and that could make an impact to their company’s bottom line. They clearly understood and articulated their vision.

The words “truly unique” continue to ring in my brain.

My mind sifted through thoughts on this topic that came from the  Collapse of Distinction by Scott McKain. (I reviewed the book here.)  The slant of Collapse was toward businesses.  The premise: companies choose their services, products, marketing and direction. Companies can choose to be distinct or they can choose to copy someone else, follow best practices.  Success often went to those who chose to pursue their own path with clarity, creativity, communcation, ultimate customer focus.  When we choose to copy rather than pursue distinction, [click to continue…]

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Reflect Back To Lead Forward

July 31, 2009

Do you remember the opening line from Paul Simon’s Kodachrome (most of you are probably too young, so a link is here). “When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it’s a wonder I can think at all.” Each of us has a season in life we’d rather forget. [...]

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Look What They Make You Give

June 29, 2009

Did you see the recent Bourne movies; The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, and The Bourne Ultimatum?  In the first movie, The Bourne Identity, Jason and Marie run into the countryside to hide out at her friend Eamon’s chateau.  Another of the Treadstone assasins, The Professor, played by Clive Owen comes to kill Bourne, but [...]

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Objective Measurability

June 18, 2009

Regardless of the size of your team or business, you need to know how well you’re doing.  Everyone wants to be able to have confidence their contribution matters.  In Three Signs Of A Miserable Job, Patrick Lencioni explained that immeasurability is the first sign of misery.  Employees need to be able to measure their performance [...]

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In Your Right Mind

June 11, 2009

Book Review: A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future by Daniel H. Pink
Every now and then I read a book that stretches my mind.  I’m not such a free-thinker to do it often, but a friend offered me a copy of A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future by [...]

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True Leadership: Greater Than Yourself

June 4, 2009

We naturally seem to serve ourselves.  We eat and sleep and do whatever we do for mostly selfish reasons.  At least I do.  I don’t like to admit it, but I’m eating what I want for lunch as I type this.  I didn’t choose what I’m doing because it served someone else.  I choose based [...]

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What Your Team Must Know

June 1, 2009

I’ve done a series of posts now on topics from Patrick Lencioni’s great book, The Three Signs Of A Miserable Job: A Fable for Managers (And Their Employees). In the previous post, I mentioned two ways that an employee can feel the problems associated with one of the key signs: irrelevance. But I [...]

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Meaningful Contribution

May 21, 2009

In Patrick Lencioni’s book, The Three Signs of a Miserable Job, he asserted that employees wanted to know their work was meaningful. He called the sign Irrelevance. People want to know that their work is important. But, more than that, they also need to know how it’s important and to whom.
How does [...]

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Collapse Of Distinction by Scott McKain

April 19, 2009

Scott McKain has exercised some leadership initiative and introduced a refreshing stream of ideas into the business landscape with Collapse Of Distinction: Stand out and move up while your competition fails.  There is a great tendency in our culture to copy the winners; to try to reproduce the success they have had by imitation.  That [...]

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