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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Leadership: Toronto Guru Robin Sharma
In honour of this week’s trip to Toronto, here is my favourite Toronto-based leadership guru, Robin Sharma. His message is aimed at New Years but if you’re at all optimistic you know that every day can qualify as a new … Continue reading
Posted in Personal Brand, Self Management
Tagged Best year yet, Robin Sharma, Toronto
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Stumbling With Grace
WARNING: Believing in one’s self enough to take chances and try new methods may result in embarrassment. There’s nothing like a good mistake to reveal strength of character and moral turpitude. I like to ask job candidates to describe their last mistake. … Continue reading
Posted in High Octane Performance, Personal Brand, Productivity, Self Management
Tagged Errors, Failure, John Warrillow, mistakes
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Flexing from Leader to Manager and Back Again
I love this excerpt from the Op-Ed blog at Posterous: “Management is just the science of execution. But leadership provides vision” So true. I’ve had many *discussions* with people on whether leadership and management are one and the same or two … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Management, World of Work
Tagged Executing vision, Leadership, Management
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A Newbie’s Foray into the Classroom
If you’re tempted to volunteer with Junior Achievement you might enjoy following along as I make my way through a first assignment: teaching investment strategies to tenth graders. It’s a great JA program that includes an online stock market simulation. Continue reading
Posted in Community, Leadership, Vancouver
Tagged Junior Achievement, Stock market simulation, Teacher, Teaching, To Sir With Love, Volunteer
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Transformational Leadership
There is a book that draws me back inside its covers at least once a year. Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander bring the reader to the place where achievement is first hatched — the mind. This post contains one of my favorite excerpts from The Art of Possibility and an 8-minute video by Ben Zander. Continue reading
5 Questions to Sharpen Your Direction
Sometimes the right question is all you need to start moving toward a new future. Continue reading
Life is What Happens to You While You’re Busy Making Other Plans
The title of this post may sound familiar — these are famous words spoken by John Lennon. A well-placed quotation can bring a presentation to life. Here are a couple that I like as well as a number of web resources to help you source quotes on topics that interest you. Continue reading
Posted in Inspiration
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Zooming for Effective Leaders
It’s tempting to equate leadership with vision and big picture thinking. This kind of one-sided leadership can leave your organization struggling and starving for attention. Zooming in and out keeps the leader fully engaged in building and sustaining forward movement – and that includes doing the occasional deep dive to analyze a roadblock. Rosabeth Moss Kanter says it best in the newest HBR video. Continue reading
