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With short notice we held the February Tweet Chat yesterday.  The topic of conversation: “How can we help each other build character-based leadership in our communities?”  Because of the short notice and the holiday, participation was down but ideas shared were meaningful and worthwhile.  Like John Watt said late in the hour, this was the “fastest moving hour” of the day.

So what were the ideas?  Phil Gerbyshak had a great idea early that got everyone re-tweeting. We need to model character-based leadership personally.   [click to continue…]

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Lead Change Group

Applied Leadership

February 1, 2010 · 2 comments

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The January Tweet Chat using the #LeadChange hashtag we asked the question, “How are you doing?”  Remember in the first chat in December, we had quite a few people commit to applying character-based leadership to make a positive difference.  In fact, Make a Positive Difference was the title of the post where we reviewed the chat.

This time, the question began, how did you do?  We had several people who had done specific things to apply [click to continue…]

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Make a Positive Difference

December 17, 2009

Tweet Chat
Last Thursday we held the inaugural Lead Change Tweet Chat.  The topic was “How can you apply character-based leadership to make a positive difference in 2010?” In one hour over 100 people joined in the “conversation” and made over 600 posts. Some of my friends have seen the transcript and called the event chaos.  [...]

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David Porter Bulls Eye Leadership

Company to Community

December 2, 2009

The December 2009 Leadership Conference Call for the Lead Change Group will be a webinar on the topic of Company to Community.  David Porter of Bulls Eye Leadership (www.bullseyeleadership.com) will be our presenter.
Company To Community
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Eastern
Company To Community
The days of the hierarchy are dead (or at least [...]

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Leadership and Community

December 2, 2009

Becky Robinson (@LeaderTalk) published a blog entry today on the Mountain State University LeaderTalk Blog titled Creating Community. It’s a concise introduction and overview of the process of creating community.
In the introduction, she said “it’s not automatic that where people gather, there will be community.” Her point is that purpose and intentionality are required to [...]

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Emotional Intelligence Call with Dr. Gloria Miele

November 22, 2009

On a conference call October 19 with other members of the Lead Change Group, I learned about the 4 categories of emotional intelligence. The main divisions are Awareness and Management in one dimension and Self and Others in the other dimension. The grid looks like this:

What quadrant would you say you naturally fell into? [...]

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Servant Leaders and the Tribe

November 19, 2009

In a previous post on servant leadership, we said “Servant leaders serve people in pursuit of a goal.” In Tribal Leadership, authors Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright wrote about the 5 different stages of tribes.  The highest stages of tribal life form around a common purpose. (My review is here.)
You may have thought of [...]

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Tribal Leadership

November 12, 2009

I’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 [...]

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Declaration of Independence

Open Source Leadership

October 8, 2009

I’ve been wrestling for the last few days about a new leadership paradigm, at least for me.  I just completed an insightful book called The Future of Management by Gary Hamel with Bill Breen.  I’m also very involved in a Linkedin Group known currently as the Lead Change Group. (I say “currently” because we’re [...]

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