Leadership Skills: Coaching
“Coaching is 90% listening, and 10% listening.” – Julio Olalla Yes, that quote is right…coaching is intentionally listening. Listening is a skill within itself, as I wrote recently here:...
View ArticleLeadership Perspective: Reverse Paradigms, Form versus Freedom, Part 2
Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be...
View ArticleLeadership Dialogue: Hot Topic for Dialogue, How Do National Holidays Impact...
Sharing Leadership Ideas from Real Life I’m Hugh Ballou, an entrepreneur. This post is about entrepreneurship and National Holidays…Balance in life. On Thursdays, I’ll often launch a topic for...
View ArticleThe Friday Five, Blogs That Matter – July 3, 2015
Blogs of Note for the Week Ending July 3, 2015 Every day I learn something that advances my leadership knowledge and competency. Here are quotes from 6 blogs that got my attention this week. I don’t...
View ArticleLeadership Skills: Staying Calm
Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that’s very important for good health. – Dalai Lama Allowing stress to rule your decisions, your culture, and your life is not an effective...
View ArticleLeadership Perspective: Reverse Paradigms – Tradition vs Change
I have been traveling around the country presenting Nonprofit Leadership Excellence Workshops. In many instances, I’m asked what to do when a board, or members in general, are resistant to change. The...
View ArticleLeadership Skills: Embracing Opposites
Dreams are not the opposite of reality. Dreams inform reality. – Seth Godin* © Hospitalera | Dreamstime.com – Yin Yang Photo Leaders struggle with apparent conflicts and opposite strategies....
View ArticleLeadership Skills: Decisiveness
“Procrastination in the name of reducing risk actually increases risk.” – Colin Powell I work with many leaders in several countries and in many cultures. There are many things that good leaders have...
View ArticleThe Friday Five, Blogs That Matter – August 21, 2015
Blogs of Note for the Week Ending August 21, 2015 Every day I learn something that advances my leadership knowledge and competency. Here are quotes from 5 blogs that got my attention this week. I don’t...
View ArticleLeadership Skills: Principles
You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it. – Murray Bowen...
View ArticleLeadership Skills: Validating, Learning from the Data
Validating as a Leadership Skill, Part 4 of 6 Validation Is Learning from the Data We are learning from interviews and field tests. It’s not only that we are right or wrong…there are shades of grey and...
View ArticleLeadership Perspective: Reverse Paradigms – Changing Self vs. Changing Others
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. – Leo Tolstoy I constantly hear leaders complaining about others in the culture that they lead and focusing on how to...
View ArticleThe Friday Five, Blogs That Matter – October 2, 2015
Blogs of Note for the Week Ending October 2, 2015 Every day I learn something that advances my leadership knowledge and competency. Here are quotes from 5 blogs that got my attention this week. I don’t...
View ArticleLeadership Skills: Planning – Startup
“If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!” ― Benjamin Franklin Planning is a key part of every success. I meet startup leaders almost every day who don’t have a strategy and are implementing...
View ArticleThe Friday Five – The Best Of…
The Friday Five…The Best Of… December 18, 2015 I’m constantly discovering something that advances my leadership knowledge and competency. This series presents the best ideas and resources that I have...
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Podcast 95: Reverse Paradigms, Mindset of BOSS versus Influencer
“The key to successful leadership is influence, not authority.” ~ Kenneth H. Blanchard Listen to the Podcast Get it on the iTunes store HERE. Get it on Stitcher HERE. Reverse Paradigms, Mindset of...
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Podcast 96: Reverse Paradigms, Talking versus Listening
“When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.” ― Ernest Hemingway Listen to the Podcast Get it on the iTunes store HERE. Get it on Stitcher HERE. Podcast 96: Reverse Paradigms,...
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Podcast 97: Reverse Paradigms, Intervening vs. Observing
Your job is to facilitate and illuminate what is happening. Interfere as little as possible. Interference, however brilliant, creates a dependency on the leader. – John Heider* Listen to the Podcast...
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Podcast 98: Reverse Paradigms, Responding vs. Reacting
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. George Bernard Shaw Listen to the Podcast Get it on the iTunes store HERE. Get it on Stitcher HERE. Reverse Paradigms, Responding...
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Podcast 99: Reverse Paradigms, Controlling vs. Collaborating
Collaboration is multiplication. – John Maxwell Listen to the Podcast Get it on the iTunes store HERE. Get it on Stitcher HERE. Controlling vs. Collaborating One of the biggest traps I experience...
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