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Exceptional
Tweet If you ask someone to make an exception for you, make sure it’s because you are delivering exceptional performance. If a policy, procedure, or rule is impeding your ability to perform, help team...
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Tweet Never apologize for having reasonable expectations of other people Never make excuses when you fail to meet the reasonable expectations of others Never ask someone to lower their expectations...
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Tweet Always assume full responsibility for your behavior Always expect others to assume full responsibility for their behavior Always show up on time, well prepared, and give your best effort Always...
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Dealing With Chronically Ignorant People
Tweet I can’t think of a job I’ve held in my life where I did not work with at least one ignorant person. By ignorant I mean someone that is either unaware of or unconcerned with the negative effect...
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Tweet The process of leadership is dependent upon responsive organizational citizens that recognize the ethical imperative to assume full responsibility for their behavior in the workplace. At a...
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Beware The Self-Righteous Fool
Tweet Self-righteous: Confident of one’s own righteousness, especially when smugly moralistic and intolerant of the opinions and behavior of others. (dictionary.com) How should we deal with...
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Leadership Embraces Reality
Tweet I just finished reading Harry G. Frankfurt’s little book On Truth, the follow-up to his book On Bullshit. I’m hesitant to admit that I enjoyed Frankfurt’s bullshit more than his truth;...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Have Something Nice To Say
Tweet We’ve all heard the familiar saying “If you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Bullshit! Our ears are duly tickled, but the hidden agenda at the core of this counsel is...
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Above The Code
Tweet Conduct: a mode or standard of personal behavior especially as based on moral principles (Merriam Webster Online) Organizations establish codes of conduct to help their members understand the...
View ArticleLead From Anywhere
Tweet Lead From Anywhere from Bret Simmons I have the honor of speaking today to the Project Management Community at Microsoft Licensing in Reno, Nevada. They are interested in helping their project...
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If You Worried More About Performing
You wouldn’t have to worry about making excuses for failing to achieve what you said was your goal. You wouldn’t have to blame others for failures you could have avoided. You wouldn’t have to count on...
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Book Review: Give And Take By Adam Grant
Bob Sutton said of Adam Grant’s new book Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success that it “just might be one of the most important new books of this young century,” and proclaimed it was a...
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Book Review: Scaling Up Excellence By Bob Sutton And Huggy Rao
I’m a huge fan of Bob Sutton’s evidence-based management body of work. I think his new book with Huggy Rao might be his best book yet. I certainly believe that Scaling Up Excellence: Getting To More...
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Next Level Servant Leadership: Arthur Brooks at TED 2016
photo credit: http://arthurbrooks.com/bio/ I watched a great talk today by Arthur Brooks at TED 2016. Because I curate TEDxUniversityofNevada, and hosted earlier in the week TEDxUniversityofNevadaLive,...
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The Warning Rocks Leadership!
Take the time to watch this video of The Warning at TEDxUniversityofNevada and you’ll see an impressive performance by Daniela (15), Paulina (13), and Alejandra (11), three talented sisters from...
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Gabby Douglas Honors The National Anthem Exactly As I Do #love4gabbyusa
What do you when you are at an event and the national anthem is played? Some people put their hand over their heart, but I don’t. I face the flag and stand in a position called parade rest. I do this...
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CEO Servant Leadership, Narcissism, And Company Financial Performance
Servant leadership is a belief in and practice of “leadership that places the good of those led over the self-interest of the leader, emphasizing leader behaviors that focus on follower development and...
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Colin Kaepernick And The National Anthem
During a preseason football game on Friday, August 26, 2016, Colin Kaepernick, quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, refused to stand with the rest of his team during the playing of the national...
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Responsible Vs. Foolish Freedom
One of the highest forms of responsibility is the responsibility to be free. One of the highest forms of freedom is the freedom to be responsible…Yet if we examine our lives closely, most of us will...
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