The Leadership Caffeine Blog
Why You Need to Write the Manifesto for Success with Your Group
There’s a reason I frequently write, coach, and speak on the topic of leaders and managers defining the rules of success. Clarifying your group’s values or creating a Manifesto for Success gives substance and meaning to the working environment you want to bring to...
Why You Need to Write the Manifesto for Success with Your Group
Clarifying your group’s values or creating a Manifesto for Success gives substance and meaning to the working environment you want to bring to life with your group members. This activity is essential and impactful whether you are leading a senior management team, a functional group, or a project team.
Leadership Caffeine™: Prepare Your Attitude Daily to Lead Effectively
If as Woody Allen indicated, “80-percent of success is just showing up,” the gross majority of the rest of success must be attributable to adopting the right attitude. I’ll leave a little wiggle room in there for the propensity to act and our good friend, luck. Here are six ideas to help you prepare your positive attitude daily.
Management Week in Review-January 7, 2011
One of my professional goals this year is to do a better job sharing insights and perspectives from a broad range of great leadership and management writers and thinkers. Every Friday, I will share my three favorites for the week. This week, I’m including content on transforming yourself, testing your strategy and turning some of the disasters of 2010 into great lessons for 2011. Enjoy!
Rethinking Idea Generation
Idea generation is core to everything we do in our organizations. It’s too bad that we’ve been going about it all wrong!
Updates: The Latest e-Newsletter & My Bookstore
Management Excellence Updates for January 5, 2011:My latest e-Newsletter with subscriber-only content is out, and I’ve constructed a new bookstore (without harming any bricks or mortar), featuring my recommendations in leadership & management, strategy, innovation, marketing, history and biography. Back Thursday with my regularly scheduled blog content!
Leadership Caffeine™: How to Cope With Organizational Alchemists
The modern-day practice of alchemy is only metaphorically about the search for a method to turn lead into gold. Instead of the medieval pursuit by alchemists of a magical chemical conversion process to change one element into another, modern practitioners are focused on the magical and easy transformation of people and organizations from one level of performance to another. Here are 12 questions to help you keep the alchemists in check.
January Leadership Development Carnival!
One of my favorite moments every month is strolling through the latest Leadership Development Carnival, hosted by the generous, popular and might I add, remarkably intelligent , Dan McCarthy, proprietor of the aptly named, Great Leadership blog. Dan was kind enough to include my post on, “How to Appropriately Respond to Positive Praise,” and we’ll see how he handles my flowery (but heartfelt) words above! Take a stroll, see how Dan handles the praise, and marvel at the collection of new and classic bloggers contributing their best to help spread excitement and warmth to kick off the new year!
Best of Leadership Caffeine™: A Leader’s Resolutions are Calendar Blind
While it is natural for us to focus on resolutions as we approach the new year, the best leaders understand that improved performance requires an unrelenting, year-long focus on personal and professional development. Instead of joining the masses in pursuit of a ridiculous list of soon-to-be forgotten resolutions (along with those fitness goals), consider this approach to continuous leadership improvement:
Two Great Blogs and a Best of Leadership Caffeine™ post
Note from Art: I’m taking a few days off over the holidays to focus on family and recharge my writing batteries. I plan on completing the second round edits of my next book, aptly titled, Leadership Caffeine, and I’m preparing a few other blogging surprises for the new year. However, if you happen to be hungry for stimulating content, here are a few suggestions to help you through this typically quiet week. Enjoy!
Merry Christmas from Our House to Yours
Merry Christmas from Our House to Yours