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Aubrey Daniels in Bringing Out the Best in People insists leaderships’ role in the employee feedback loop is, “… is not to find fault or place blame, but to analyze why people are behaving as they are, and modify the consequences to promote the behavior they need.”
Topics: Strategic Discipline, leadership, positive reinforcement, Balance
President Obama’s address on Tuesday reminded me of a blog I wrote on Is Life Fair. This blog is not intended to support a political agenda, yet when I watched Obama’s presentation Tuesday evening it struck me how differently I and perhaps a lot of my clients and prospects view the role of government.
Topics: Accountability, leadership, Topgrading
Several of my clients and prospects have recently asked for my coaching help to elevate the management teams in their organizations. The question often asked is how do you go about improving leaders and managers?
Topics: Good to Great, Core Values, leadership, Core Purpose, Jim Collins
Topics: leadership, A Players, Topgrading
Let’s review the key steps to developing rituals and establishing change and introduce key number five – enlisting support. Here are the five keys:
Topics: Discipline, change, leadership, rituals, habits, support
Last blog, Tortoise or Hare, Which Discipline do you Follow, we discussed three fundamental principles for sustaining high performance. Let’s look at the first principle, that we cannot expect growth or improvement in any dimension of our lives without intentionally and regularly challenging our current capacity.
Topics: leadership, use of energy, stress
One of my clients reminded me this week of an important leadership lesson. Quit answering your subordinate’s questions. I’ve blogged on this before The Problem with being the Chief Problem Solver, yet it bears repeating. My client had one of his managers ask him “what should I do?” Many leaders and managers would immediately provide an answer. It’s fast, painless, and allows you to move on to your own issues. Yet what does that teach? What’s more what does it continue to do?
Topics: Discipline, leadership, meeting rhythms, questions
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The Strategic Discipline Blog focuses on midsize business owners with a ravenous appetite to improve his or her leadership skills and business results.
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