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Category Archives: Courageous Leadership
Walk the Talk — Personal Best Practices for Success
April 30, 2007 – 4:31 pm
There’s a lot in the air these days about habits and rituals for personal success. Recently, a popular meme circulating the Internet challenges writers to contribute their top "Simply Successful Secrets" – the 5-10 daily habits most responsible for their success. The result is an interconnected web of blog posts providing a wealth of best [...]
Success Secrets for Thriving on the Road Less Traveled
April 20, 2007 – 2:52 pm
Have you seen the viral blog post going around about the top daily habits for success? I’ve caught the virus from…well…I’m not sure where I first heard of it, but I guess most recently from Andy Wibbles, a blogging expert whom I read frequently. Just goes to show how such thing gets around.
The Simply Successful [...]
Executive Think Time
April 13, 2007 – 4:17 pm
There is another way to view “slowed down moments of self connection" : as a business tool. In the book Executive Think Time, master coaches Ellen Fredericks and Val Williams observe that many executives spend less than 20% of their time in strategic thinking. Kind of shocking! What is a leader if not someone who [...]
Who Moved My Cheese
March 19, 2007 – 5:21 pm
The other day I read Spencer Johnson’s bestselling management book, Who Moved My Cheese. It’s one of those read-in-one-sitting business fables – a little book with a big moral. The thing is, this book was a mega-hit and honestly the story is, well, obvious.
It’s a story of getting out of your own way, feeling the [...]
