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During the course of an average person’s career, we get to work with many different types of leaders. And, our personal leadership style is one of the styles that fit into the mix. There are power players, influencers, authoritarians, collaborators, and numerous others. There are also Crisis Mongers. That title conjures up images of a monster, lurking in the dark, waiting to pounce and tear wildly at anyone close. Posted…

Recently I facilitated a workshop for a team of leaders. While the planned topic wasn’t to be about communications, turns out that’s where we headed. The workshop was simple, though not necessarily easy. Our goal was to affirm common purpose, identify the top five most important things going on, and to make personal commitments for next steps. Having run many similar leadership workshops in the past, I generally find that…

No one likes getting asked this question and we like answering it even less. When we do answer, there is a tendency for us to immediately think in terms of “me” and “everyone else”. So, of course, we can answer it in good conscience and say “Yes, discrimination does still exist, but, I don’t discriminate.” Please know, from my perspective, that is one of the least accurate statements ever uttered….

There is much written about change, change management, implementing change, and on and on. So what? For the longest time when I talked about change, listened to others talk about change, read about change or did research on change, I got more and more confused. And then I figured out predictability. From my perspective, all of life is all about change. Really, at the end of the day, what does…

This is a great and timeless story. You know, the three pigs, each of whom builds a house of different materials, straw, sticks and bricks. And, of course, the big, bad wolf blows down the straw house and the stick house, but, is not able to blow down the brick house. The third pig who built the brick house invested more time and planning into building his house and his…