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The Think Zone – New Year

December 15, 2009 · 2 comments

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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 his Groaners – Twitter one-liners that he posts nightly.

Roy has an interesting blog and post that I wanted to share with you.  The blog is The Think Zone and the post is titled Janus.  “Janus was the Roman god of beginnings and ends.”  Roy recommends that we take 4 specific steps to make our next year better.  Jog on over and check it out.

My favorite point of the bunch is [click to continue…]

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Multicolored Leadership

July 28, 2009 · 4 comments

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I’ve read a few articles criticizing Warren Bennis and others for the way they tend to polarize leaders vs. managers or leaders vs. managers and supervisors.  Wally Bock always has an interesting perspective and he posted a much commented Three Star Leadership blog post here.  Wally has rich experience in leadership development, developing new leaders, and building a leadership culture and he provides some interesting critical balance in his post and throughout his blog.

Dr. Bennis seems to suggest in his quotes and his books that you either are a leader or a manager.  It almost seems like he believes you can only be one or the other and if you’re a manager, you should stop and become a leader. [click to continue…]

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Lead From The Pack

July 7, 2009

I realize people don’t like the “middle-manager” term, but in reality, most of us are “middle managers.”W e might prefer being the top person in charge or focus on being at the bottom of some organizational pile, but most of us manage from the middle.  We manage people (ourselves at a minimum) but we also [...]

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Leadership Workout

June 15, 2009

A quote from the introduction to the 4th edition of Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner caught my attention.  “In the end, we realize that leadership development is self-development.”  That thought stuck in my mind.  It explains much of my passion for the topic of leadership.
Have you ever noticed the energy you get from helping [...]

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