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Be True to Yourself – Reach Your Potential – What to Ask the Person in the Mirror

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 29, 2024

Great leaders constantly learn and adapt.

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Topics: leadership, questions, Effective Leadership, Play to Your Strengths, Scaling Leadership, Reach our potential, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Robert Steven Kaplan

Evaluation and Alignment - What to Ask the Person in the Mirror

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jul 15, 2024

We are diving into Harvard Professor Robert Steven Kaplan’s What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential.

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Topics: leadership, questions, Alignment, Scaling Leadership, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, Robert Steven Kaplan, Vision and Alignment

Questions - What to Ask the Person in the Mirror

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Jun 10, 2024

Successful business leaders seldom have all the answers. That’s the lesson from What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential, by Harvard Professor Robert Steven Kaplan.

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Topics: leadership, questions, CEO Leadership Focus, What to Ask the Person in the Mirror

Ask Better Questions – Leadership is Language

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, May 25, 2020

Being curious about what someone else thinks is the foundation of asking good questions.

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Topics: employee performance, questions, Leadership Is Language, David Marquet

Ready for the Day? – Daily Huddles

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Sat, Mar 3, 2012

It’s starts with the easy stuff.  Every morning between 7:30 and 9 AM. 

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Topics: priorities, questions, metrics, daily huddle

Tired of Questions – Leadership Discipline

Posted by Douglas A Wick on Mon, Mar 14, 2011

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? 

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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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