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We have talked about vision in previous posts such as Can You Taste It?, Energize, Mobilize & Guide, Shared Vision, Align Your Vision and Own Your Vision.  As a follow up to the whole series, let’s do a short check to see how you’re doing at deciding what’s most important.

As the leader of your team, you make choices every few minutes.  Even as a contributor, more and more these days, you have some control over how you spend your time.  You decide to attend meetings, write software or return customer calls or talk with a team member about some deliverable.  You make literally hundreds of choices per hour.

What is Urgent?

Some of the things you choose are important and some are urgent.  You know the urgent choices — the ones that must be done right now.  Important tasks take longer to identify and complete.  Often the most important tasks are the most strategic; requiring time and coordination to implement.  Urgent problems demand attention.   [click to continue…]

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We have talked about vision in previous posts such as Can You Taste It?Energize, Mobilize & Guide, and Shared Vision.  Now we need to check to make sure your vision is aligned.

Do you know the purpose of your team?  Can you articulate the strategic reason your team exists?  Does your team’s vision align with your organization’s vision?

Say you’re in a technical support role.  There is a strategic benefit your company receives from paying your salary and giving you a place to work.  You may never talk to customers or make a sale, but you contribute a key function to the overall mission of your organization.  [click to continue…]

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Three Promises of Character-Based Leadership

February 4, 2010

In our group, we’ve had a lot of conversation about character-based leadership.  This is the second post in a series on character-based leadership.  The first was Sources of Leadership.
What result does character-based leadership promise? What makes our type of leadership different?
So I thought about the question for a few minutes. Quickly, I thought of 3 [...]

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Random Acts of Motivation

February 3, 2010

This is part of a series of posts organized and arranged by Jane Perdue. You can find the introduction here and the post on networking by Jennifer V. Miller at her blog The People Equation. I also posted on Sincerity and Office Politics.  This week, we’ll discuss Susan Mazza’s great post on the [...]

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Core Purpose Interview

January 28, 2010

My gratitude goes out to Joan Koerber-Walker and her Core Purpose blog.  Joan is very involved in leadership development, small business and Arizona small business.  She manages several on-line profiles and works tirelessly to make a difference through her business and professional services.  Joan took the time to publish an interview of me that even [...]

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Sincerity and Office Politics

January 26, 2010

This is part of a series of posts organized and arranged by Jane Perdue.  You can find the introduction here and the post on networking by Jennifer V. Miller at her blog The People Equation.  Next week, Susan Mazza will post on the political side of agendas at Random Acts of Leadership. The question before [...]

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Office Politics and the People Equation

January 20, 2010

Yesterday, Jennifer V. Miller posted a great article on networking, relationships and office politics.  The article is titled Networking Inside the Company Walls and it’s posted on Jennifer’s blog, The People Equation. It’s the first post in a series initiated by Jane Perdue that will also include Susan Mazza and myself. The idea is that [...]

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Leadership or Office Politics Series

January 18, 2010

Jane Perdue of The Braithewaite Group and the Life, Love & Leadership blog has introduced a challenging topic with a post called “Politics are Necessary but Not Necessarily Evil” where she introduces the idea that many of the core characteristics of quality leadership are also the central tenets of office politics.  The only difference is [...]

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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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Stand Out

Unique Difference

October 2, 2009

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 [...]

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