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Leadership Caffeine™: 5 Ways Leaders Can Promote an Outside-In View

By |2024-08-08T13:30:04-05:00August 13th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Overcoming the gravitational pull of the office requires extraordinary effort. Succumb to this powerful tractor beam and your life is an endless stream of internal meetings and activities that lack any context for the realities of customers and the marketplace. Spend too much time inside your own walls, and you create your own alternate reality...one that lacks proper connectivity to the issues that should define your team’s priorities. Here are 5 ideas to help you and your team members change the view and cultivate critical marketplace context:

New Leader Tuesday: A Mistake is a Horrible Thing to Waste

By |2024-08-08T13:30:07-05:00August 7th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Beyond the certainty of death and taxes, one other absolute in life is that as a leader, you will make mistakes. A great number of them. From misspeaking to making a decision that turns out wrong to a million other areas to show off your humanness, mistakes are part of the learning to lead process. How you choose to deal with your mistakes will help determine people’s perception of you and speak volumes about your leadership character. Here are 6 ideas to help you leverage those moments effectively:

Best of Leadership Caffeine™-How to Deal with Positive Praise

By |2024-08-08T13:30:08-05:00August 6th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

It’s easy to start believing the praise you hear in the hallways about your leadership approach. Easy and dangerous. I’ve always been leery of the unfounded and saccharine-sweet praise that is bestowed upon leaders. While you may call me cynical, I prefer to think of myself as pragmatic. Here are 5 ideas for delicately and appropriately coping with positive praise:

August Leadership Development Carnival and Reading List

By |2024-08-08T13:30:09-05:00August 5th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

This month's excellent edition of the Leadership Development Carnival is being hosted by Sharlyn Lauby, aka the H.R. Bartender! In addition to a great variety of posts, Sharlyn asked each contributor to share what they are reading this summer, and the results make for a great reading list for the final weeks of pre-Labor Day book consumption.

Just One Thing: Learn to Fight Your Negativity Bias

By |2024-08-08T13:30:12-05:00August 1st, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

We all know people who seem to thrive on the negatives in life. They can look at what is perceived by others as a beautiful picture and spot the flaws, almost taking pride in their role as watchdogs against perfection. Here are 4 ideas and several resources to help reduce your negative self-talk and improve your effectiveness and happiness as a leader and person:

Leadership Caffeine™-To Grow as a Leader, Master a Second Discipline

By |2024-08-08T13:30:14-05:00July 31st, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

Of the many important themes espoused by the late and arguably pre-eminent management thinker of the latter part of the twentieth century, Peter Drucker, perhaps the most valuable to us as individuals, is his constant reminder that we are responsible for our own self-development. One of Drucker’s more provocative suggestions as described in William A. Cohen’s enjoyable read, “A Class with Drucker-The Lost Lessons of the World’s Greatest Management Teacher,” is for managers to actively work at developing expertise outside of their chosen field as a tool to preparing to become a senior or strategic leader. (Read More...)

Leadership Caffeine™ Podcast-Become the CEO of You, Inc. with Susan Butler

By |2024-08-08T13:30:16-05:00July 26th, 2012|1,770 Legacy Leadership Caffeine and Management Articles|

One of the many pleasures of this podcast project is the opportunity it affords to connect with remarkable people. While Susan Butler's excellent book, Become the CEO of You, Inc., offers great insight, wisdom and guidance for all of us (with an emphasis on aspiring female executives), it is her fascinating, trailblazing biography that serves as true inspiration.

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