What you do with your body affects how you think with your head. Here is a simple way you can use this fact as a leader to get people’s attention and take control of a group.
One of the more recent and popular entries to the long list of good leadership books was Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead. Authored by Sheryl Sandberg, formerly a vice president at Google and now Chief Operating
Taking over a new team can be a challenging and tricky time for everyone involved. The new leader may have lots of great ideas and changes he wants to implement immediately; the rest of the team might be apprehensive about
A long while ago, Benjamin Franklin said “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.” He was right – the best learning involves doing, and the more the better. Here’s a simple
If you rush blindly from one event to the next, you miss out on the opportunity to learn and improve. After a major event, what good leaders and teams do is take a moment to think about what just happened
There’s no such thing as perfection when you are dealing with people. Inevitably, something will go wrong. After all, we’re only human. As mistakes and errors happen, good teams get better by talking about what occurred and finding ways to
Captain Ahab is famous in modern fiction for his maniacal pursuit of the Great White Whale, Moby-Dick. He gets a lot of bad press for his poor leadership style, and things didn’t end up going very well for most of
At 3:30 in the afternoon on May 21st, 1804 the Lewis and Clark expedition set off from St Louis on their famous journey to explore the unknown territory west of the Mississippi. On that first day they made it three
“Didn’t you get my email?” Ever heard that before? Usually it’s right about the time everyone is figuring out that someone dropped the ball: the cake didn’t get ordered, the drivers didn’t show up on time, or the meeting moved
Trying to get off the ground with a new team? Looking for a way to get some bonding going sooner rather than later? Want to make it fun? Developing a sense of team within your group is critical to do
At some point everyone has a need to come up with a new idea. Whether it’s for a new fund-raiser, or a better process at the job site, or to solve an unexpected problem, brainstorming is one of the best ways
What happens when the leader abandons the people he’s supposed to be leading? With The Ice Master: The Doomed 1913 Voyage of the Karluk, I thought I was just reading another tale of epic survival in the arctic. But as
How do you get 30 very different people to agree on something? How do you engage all those minds to come up with an annual plan? It doesn’t need to be as challenging as interpreting the Mayan calendar. Every year
OK, so you have a sense of where your power to influence others comes from. But how do you use this power to get others to do things? Different leadership approaches use these powers in different ways. A quick search
As a leader, I enjoyed reading How to Win Friends & Influence People and you will too. Part of what made it fun was that it is absolutely crammed with short, interesting stories and examples of the concepts and ideas that
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