Responsibility Stinks!

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on July 1, 2020.

Do you remember a time in your career, or even in your personal life, when so many people weren’t depending on you to make the right decisions? And maybe there wasn’t even anyone watching if you did something stupid, or something you ...

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Monkey See, Monkey Do? Team Member See? Team Member Do!!!

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 30, 2020.

Ok… Think back to when you were a kid. What did you see the people you admired most doing that you weren’t allowed to do? Maybe you were too young, maybe “it was bad for you”, or maybe it was just something that same person had told ...

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Go Ahead & Admit It, They Already Know Anyway…

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 26, 2020.

While taking a course on direct-response marketing for small businesses with one of my mentors a few years ago, I remember being initially puzzled when he emphasized that it’s far more important to handle any slip-up appropriately th...

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Vital to Business and to Life Itself!!!

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 25, 2020.

OK… It’s clear that a very select few ever make it through all that’s required to become a Navy SEAL, and thank God for each and every one who does! But regardless of what the rest of us have chosen to pursue, even the Bill’s of the ...

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Bill had Friends on the Hill, but He was no SEAL!

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 24, 2020.

Several years ago, just a few weeks after I started with a new company as their Safety & Human Resources Manager, I joined a coworker and the guy who handled the company’s group health policy for lunch. This was the first time I had ...

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People Do Business with People they Know, Like, and Trust – Right?

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 23, 2020.

We took an in-depth look at what we each need to work on to build A Cycle for Success in our own lives through the last several blogs, but those all required us to look inside of ourselves. But for any kind of success we’re able to c...

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It Fuels the DRIVEN Style, but It’s Important for Everyone!

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 19, 2020.

When Cindy and I work with teams to build a foundation for effective workplace communication throughout their culture using the DISC Model of Human Behavior, we always share that the one thing that puts fuel in the tank for folks wit...

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Yoda Had It Right, and So Much Depends on This…

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 18, 2020.

I don’t know that I’ve ever watched any one of the Star Wars movies start to finish, but the one line that I’ve resonated with more was where Yoda said “Do. Or do not. There is no try.”

Leading up to this point, we’ve looked at the ...

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“Many People Would Rather DIE than Think; In Fact, Most Do…”

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 17, 2020.

British polymath, Bertrand Russell once said that “many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.”

And this is the second piece of A Cycle for Success in Any Endeavor that we started looking at in the last blog; our THOU...

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The Starting Point for ALL Achievement!

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on June 16, 2020.

In Think & Grow Rich, Napoleon Hill stated that “Your BELIEF, or faith, is the element which determines the action of your subconscious mind.” In both the video summary of what we’ll be digging into through the next several blogs, as...

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Less Talk, More Action…

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on July 10, 2020.

A I closed the last blog where we looked at how important it is for us to not only set the example for our team to follow when challenges come our way, but to also intentionally guide our team members in how they respond to challenge...

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An Entire Team of Opportunity Finders!

Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on July 9, 2020.

Napoleon Hill once said, “I have also discovered that there comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit. Mind you, I did not say the full blown flow...

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