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What Leaders Can Learn from Volunteer Organizations

What Leaders Can Learn from Volunteer Organizations

“All things being equal, people work with people they like and trust. All things not being equal, people still work with people they like and trust.” –John Maxwell Several years ago, when I was a new manager, I was having serious difficulties with a team member so I...

Work Expands to Fill the Time Available

Work Expands to Fill the Time Available

On November 19th, 1955, British naval historian C. Northkote Parkinson published a humorous article in The Economist with a lengthy title: Politicians and taxpayers have assumed (with occasional phases of doubt) that a rising total in the number of civil servants must...

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The Ultimate Test of Leadership—Do You Create More Leaders?

The Ultimate Test of Leadership—Do You Create More Leaders?

“The best measure of leadership is whether you create more leaders.”—John Maxwell You place a very low ceiling on your leadership potential if you don’t take the time to mentor and develop others. Good leaders create loyal followers. Great leaders create other leaders...

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Change Your Definition of Success

Change Your Definition of Success

“Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to do your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.”–John Wooden (1910-2010) John Robert Wooden was hired by UCLA as the head basketball coach in 1948....

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Develop the Essential Life Skill of Apologizing

Develop the Essential Life Skill of Apologizing

“When we look back at major rifts in life’s relationships, often it is because one person could not swallow their pride and just apologize for something. Apologizing changes relationships.” –Marshall Goldsmith, Executive Coach I recently had a bad experience with an...

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Experience Is Not The Same As Expertise

Experience Is Not The Same As Expertise

“I neither know, nor think that I know.” –Socrates According to historical legend, this is the response Socrates gave when the Oracle of Delphi asked why he was considered the wisest person of his time. Plato, the student of Socrates, recorded this story in his famed...

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