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Category Archives: Accountability
Problem Resolution Starts with Curiosity
You can’t truly solve a problem until you appreciate all the opportunities it contains. Continue reading
Boost Your Career Through EQ
Spend a few minutes to examine your emotional quotient. It could start you on a personal development path that will benefit your career – and your personal relationships, as well. Continue reading
Organizational Adulthood
Ever watch a 12 year old walk through a department store, pointing out each and every flaw in design or pricing? Adolescents are particularly adept at finding and announcing fault. With any luck, and several years’ frontal lobe development, they learn the value … Continue reading
Change – From the Inside Out
I’m not talking about organizational design or cascading new processes throughout a company. This is about the kind of change that skips over skills and abilities and digs right down to the values level — to who you are as a person and how you show up. I’m talking about serious reexamine-who-you-want-to-be kinds of changes. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Self Management
Tagged Awareness, change management, Consciousness, Management, Personal development, Self-help
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Customer Centric versus Customer Driven
Which business model sounds better: customer centric or customer driven? They sound similar but one can lead to greatness; the other, failure. Continue reading
Graceful Endings
The way you leave a job or a client engagement can be more important than the way you entered. Parting words and actions overtake history and become the lasting legacy. Since all relationships end at some point it’s worthwhile to find ways to provide constructive criticism without damaging your own reputation or risking litigation. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Career, Self Management, World of Work
Tagged emotional intelligence, Endings, Exit interview, Firing a client
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Anonymous Online Comments – Not So Anonymous Anymore
If your comment is cited in a defamation case, the online host could be forced to reveal your identity. Sock puppet operators, beware. Read on for some cyber tips to keep you out of court (and an explanation of the sock puppet comment – in case you are unfamiliar with this type of online persona). Continue reading
The Tyranny of the Possible
Having clear objectives is a protection against the maelstrom of ideas that fly about in the creative brain. Goals give us discipline. They put backbone in our time management decisions. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, High Octane Performance, Productivity, Self Management
Tagged dream, focus, ideation, objectives, possibilities, possibility, time management
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The art of creative postponement
Creative postponement. Such a soft and fluffy euphemism for the evil word procrastination. I can think of many addictions that are less harmful than this one. And yes, procrastination can be an addiction. Continue reading
Posted in Accountability, Self Management
Tagged Procrastination, Procrastinators Anonymous, time management
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Discipline: The One Quality You Can’t Succeed Without
Instant gratification. Play before you pay. Wanting everything and wanting it now. These are the anthems of North Americans in the twenty-first century. It has led to a generation of impatient workers and a per capita debt load never before seen. I … Continue reading
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Simple strategic planning
Outstanding leaders have the ability to turn complex problems into executable plans that deliver on the most important elements. Is there a way to parlay this concept into the overall strategy for a business? Continue reading
