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Past, Present, Future

Past, Present and Future

January 4, 2010 · 2 comments

in Resources, Webinars

Join us for the January call / webinar: Lead Change – Past, Present and Future.  We’re trying some new things.  We’ll be doing a webinar because the calls are getting a lot of participants and leaving an open conference call was getting confusing.  We’re also going to do the same presentation at two different times in case you have questions or items you’d like discussed.

The topic this month is the Past, Present & (Proposed) Future of the Lead Change Group.  I’ll review a little of our brief past, what’s happening in the next few weeks and what will be happening over the next year.  Please follow the links below to register for the call you plan to attend.  I’ll post a recording a couple of days after the call for anyone who misses it.

Register for Call #1 Wednesday, January 13, 2010 8 PM Eastern Time (5 PM Pacific)

Register Jan 13

Or, Register for Call #2 Friday January 15, 2010 3 PM Eastern Time (Noon Pacific)

Register Jan 15

Photo © Alena Yakusheva – Fotolia.com

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Fork in the Road

Life is a Fork in the Road by Don Shapiro

December 27, 2009 · 1 comment

in Resources

A friend of mine has recently launched a blog with an interesting purpose. Don Shapiro (LinkedIn Profile, @DonShapiro1) came up with an idea to pursue the decisions people make with a blog called Life Is A Fork In The Road.  The premise is that our life is made up of several, maybe even hundreds of choices.

A fork is one of tpathhose decisions that becomes a significant event.  Don is examining how people choose which fork to take.  His desire is to collect stories and see if there are any patterns.  His end goal is a book on the topic that is based on the stories.

Every choice eliminates other choices, many forever.  I can think of several significant forks myself, and many things that would have never been possible had I not taken the fork.  If you’re like me, and you tend to think back and plan forward at the end of the year, take a minute and invest in an interesting work.  Please hop over to Life Is A Fork and share a story or two.  I’ll be doing that in a few days myself.  It will be interesting to see how Don’s pursuit of his particular fork ends up.

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Quality Leadership Changes The World

December 24, 2009

The original idea for the Lead Change Group was launched on March 30, 2009. It rose out of my desire to develop as a leader and build quality leaders. I prefer action to inaction, so rather than hoping someone else would do something, I began the group.
My goal was to act on my [...]

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Shared Vision

Shared Vision

December 22, 2009

Shared vision takes time.
First you must appreciate other contributors.  Shared means shared.  If you supply the team vision, others must adopt it.  You can’t pick the level of effort needed for them to adopt your vision. You don’t decide how hard or easy it will be to get them to fully share and appreciate your [...]

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The Think Zone – New Year

December 15, 2009

Roy Atkinson is one of the cool people I’ve met on-line during this past year.  He’s @royatkinson on Twitter and a member of the Lead Change Group on LinkedIn.  He’s passionate about leadership and technology and hails from Maine.  I’ve even referred to him as the CHO of the group (Chief Humor Officer) because of [...]

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Can You Taste It?

December 14, 2009

In America, our founding fathers built and shared a great vision that people could govern themselves.  The vision was very complex as was the government that they established. Their great vision marked-out their greatness both individually and as a group.
Do you have a great vision?
If you’re a leader, you probably do.  Even if you’re not [...]

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November 2009 Lead Change Call

November 10, 2009

Dr. Eli Sopow will be the presenter on the November Lead Change Conference call.  The call is scheduled for November 16th at 5:00 PM Eastern.
Systems theory illustrates how one small change can make a huge difference by using the metaphor of a butterfly flapping its wings in Brazil. Ultimately that flap of a wing sets [...]

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The War on Apathy Continues …

October 29, 2009

We have seen the enemy…
Do you ever get tired of going through the motions?
You know what I mean. In a bit of passive aggression, we give less than our best because our heart is just not in the activity.  We do what we have to and no more.  Can you think of times when you’ve [...]

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War With Apathy

October 27, 2009

In a discussion a few days ago, Mandy Vavrinak made an observation that I promised to write about. She has a knack with words and can typically apply precise wording to a particular effort or idea. She said I was “at war with apathy.”
The Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines apathy as:

A lack of feeling or emotion
A [...]

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Strengths – Energy, Talents and Passions

September 17, 2009

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been talking about strengths.  This is the final post in a 5-part evaluation of Strengths. Strengths are the combination of Energy, Talents and Passions. But strengths without achievement are nothing.  Achievement, significant, material, long lasting, world-changing achievements seem to always result from the application of strengths.
Therefore I suggest the following [...]

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