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Leadership Truth #1 - Great Leaders Operate from a Set of Values
Values are the underpinning of everything we do. Great leaders have a concrete set of values that they operate from on a daily basis. Where do these values come from?

Leadership Truth #2 - Great Leaders Live Their Vision
Great leaders are congruent. They live their vision all the time. Consistency is a trait most great leaders have in abundance. Why is this trait so important?

Leadership Truth #3 - Great Leaders are Passionate
Not only are great leaders passionate people, but they have an uncanny ability to infect others with their passion. That is how the gusto in their soul gets translated to the rank and file. Let's explore how this is done.

Leadership Truth #4 - Great Leaders Value Transparency
Transparency in an organization means not holding things back from people.In so many organizations people know there is information being denied them that they really ought to know. This is devastating to morale.

Leadership Truth #5 - Great Leaders Have High Emotional Intelligence
Simply stated, Emotional Intelligence is the ability to work with people at all levels. The degree of success of an individual in this world is much more closely aligned with the level of Emotional Intelligence than IQ.

Leadership Truth #6 - Great Leaders Never Stop Learning
When we stop learning, it is time to call the undertaker. At birth, we are given one body and roughly 80 years - that is what we have. All of life is a series of learning opportunities. Great leaders are like sponges trying to absorb lessons in life, even in the most difficult of times.

Leadership Truth #7 - Great Leaders Believe Work is Play
Have you ever noticed that the best leaders actually have fun at work? It really is allowed to create an environment where the good times outnumber the bad times. There are some gifted leaders who have discovered this concept.

Am I a Leader?
What makes a person a leader? What distinguishes a "good" leader from a "bad" leader? Can anyone become a leader or do you need particular characteristics and behaviours? This article considers these questions and makes some suggestions about who a "leader" really is.

Leadership Truth #8 - Great Leaders Do Not Overly Worry about Popularity
While everybody likes to be popular, great leaders understand their primary goal is to balance the needs of all stakeholders at the same time. This inevitably leads to some stakeholders being unhappy with certain decisions. How do leaders deal with the fact that they are unpopular for some portion of the time?

Leadership Truth #9 - Great Leaders Foster Great Followership
For centuries, most of the focus has been on leaders and leadership. There is a new trend over the past decade to also focus on great followership. We are all leaders and followers for some portion of the time. This article compares and contrasts these two roles.

Leadership Truth #10 - Great Leaders Make Large Trust Deposits
The level of trust between any two individuals is like a bank account. There is a balance, and we make continual deposits and withdrawals. Great leaders look for the opportunities to make large deposits in the trust account with people.

Leadership Truth #11 - Great Leaders Do Better in a Crisis
A hallmark of great leadership is that these people do better when there is a crisis. They are more prepared going in and have a way of navigating during a crisis that instinctively finds the best path through chaos. How do they accomplish this?

Ideas for Political Survival
There is an old saying “Too soon old – too late smart.” During my long career in a large organization, I somehow managed to do some pretty bonehead things politically. I will never be someone who is politically brilliant because I am far too outspoken. But I have learned some things and want to pass on an idea to others.

Leadership Assessment #11 – Demonstrate Integrity

There are hundreds of assessments for leaders. The content and quality of these assessments vary greatly. You can spend a lot of time and money taking surveys to tell you the quality of your leadership. There are a few leading indicators that can be used to give a pretty good picture of the overall quality of your leadership. These are not good for diagnosing problems or specifying corrective action, but they can tell you where you stand quickly. Here is one of my favorite measures. It is demonstrating integrity.

Clarifying Your Values

Every enterprise should be guided by a concrete set of values. These ahould be very visible and tangible. Unfortunately, mny organizations have not clarified their values. This leads to numerous problms in running the organization because there is no moral or ethical compass. Clarifying values takes time and energy, but it is time well spent. In this article I outline a specific process to do this critical work.

Creating a Brilliant Vision
If your organization does not have a compelling Vision, it is going nowhere. A solid vision of the future is the most important ingredient in any strategic process, yet often organizations just throw out a vision statement as a kind of placeholder to guide action. That is a crime. This article contains a solid process for creating an organizational vision that is brilliant.

Do We Really Need a Mission Statement?

Many organizations confuse the concept of a vision statement with a mission statement. They might say, "Our mission is to become the world leader in windows." Well, that is reallly a vision statement, not a mission statement. A vision statement is always about the future, while a mission statement is all about what we are trying to do today. It is very important to know that. This article will clarify a process to obtain a good mission statement.

Documenting Expected Behaviors
In creating a Strategic Framework, many organizations forget to include a documented set of expected behaviors. This is actually a critical step to do well. This article walks through a porcess of documenting behaviors. It is not rocket science, but it must be done.

Developing a Strategic Plan
Developing a specific Strategic Plan is fundamental to organizational progress. Once an organization has a concrete set of values, a vision, a mission, and a set of behaviors, it is time to document the strategic plan with tactics. This article gives a brief outline of the process.

Resolve to stop making resolutions!

Did you know the average New Year’s resolution lasts 72 hours or less? -about the same length a diet lasts. That means that on or about January 3, most people who made resolutions have forgotten or abandoned their plans for change. It’s well documented that successful people make goals and stick to them, they don’t bother with resolutions. Perhaps the best resolution is to never make resolutions again.

Acting Like Adults
It is not uncommon to hear someone say, "People at work act like children most of the time." This is because in the pressure cooker of the working world, the behaviors of people get on each other's nerves, and they tend to regress back to the kind of playground rules that kept society in order when they were children. this does not wear well in an adult atmosphere, so what can we do about it?

How Values Set You Apart
What you stand for and your ability to run a business based on those principles is a marketplace differentiator. If you are looking to stand out this is a must read article.

The Best New Years Resolution is to never make them again!

The Best New Years Resolution is to never make them again. Do you know long does the average New Year’s resolution lasts? 72 hours-about the same period a diet lasts. That means that on or about January 3, most people who made resolutions have forgotten or abandoned their plans for change. It’s well documented that successful people make goals and stick to them, they don’t bother with resolutions. Perhaps the best resolution is to never make resolutions again. Make goals instead.

What Puts Success in Succession?
Succession planning is vital to the long term survival of any organization. Unfortunately many companies do a poor job of succession at various levels. This paper outlines some of the key issues and gives several checklists that can help make these processes work better.

What makes you happy? 10 Characteristics of Resilient People
What makes you happy? One answer is resilience. Resilience is a characteristic of people who can easily bounce back from adversity. Resilient people are able to “roll with the punches”. You can learn to be more resilient. Use these 10 characteristics of resilient people to become more resilient yourself.

Valuing Diversity
Much has been written about the topic of diversity. This article deals with my views on the topic in terms of why and how to achieve a culture that values diversity.

Helping Supervisors
The first line manager, or so-called "Supervisor" has a particularly tough job. This level gets the brunt of worker unrest but also takes heavy flack from upper management. This article deals with some ideas to lighten their load and provide some more recognition for what they are doing.

8 Ways to Help Others Succeed
The highest calling for any leader is to grow other leaders. Great leaders seek to help other people regardless of their position. When you think about it, helping other people succeed is the shortest route to your personal success. This article gives eight tips to think about if you are really interested in helping others succeed.

Your Clarity of Purpose and Success
Defining your personal clarity of purpose is the first step in becoming a personal and professional success. Use your purpose in life to guide your career and life decision making. Once you are clear on what you want from life, it becomes relatively easy to determine what you need to do to get you there. It all begins with clarity -- and only you can determine what success means for you.

Create a Vivid Mental Image of Your Success

Successful people define what success means to them. Then they develop a compelling and clear mental image of their success. They use this mental image to help keep their dreams alive and to keep moving forward to what they want in their lives and careers. Creating a vivid mental image of your success is not day dreaming. It's real work -- it's the work of designing your future, so you can take the steps necessary to create it.

Three Key Elements to Improving Leadership
Great leadership is the key to success. Great communication is the key to great leadership. Think of any great leader in modern time: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr, and John F. Kennedy come to mind immediately. They were powerful leaders because they could inspire people to follow them. It was their ability to articulate their vision that made them successful in achieving their goals.

Being Genuine Why Conflict and Confrontation Is Good During Uncertain Times
Genuineness is a learned behavior and skill each person brings to the team. The good news is that being genuine can also lead to conflict and confrontation which are important for organizations in uncertain times. This article reviews the value of confrontation to growing and thriving organizations and offers six ways to instill genuineness into the workforce.

The Power of a Willing Mind

According to the Gallup organization, only 30% of employees are fully engaged in their work. That means 70% are merely earning a paycheck. What does this untapped opportunity cost an organization? And, why are so many companies oblivious to this loss? Are they blind to the unrealized opportunity that is left on the table daily? What would this extra potential do for us as individuals, organizations and even countries? Imagine the impact of fully engaged workforce on the economy. Consider the productivity and profit that is simply there for the willing organization to take.

Dont attack Life It is a process
Attacking Life as in a campaign is not a good idea. Accept that Life is a process from birth to death (and paying taxes!!). Learn to live with the ups and the downs. Anything else will be stressful and cause problems. This will not bring life harmony.

Hints on managing an ageing multicultural workorce
Research has confirmed the commonly held belief that as people age their ability (and often their desire) to change is diminished and that their thoughts, habits, patterns of behaviour, ideas and perceptions become rigid and limited and that it becomes more difficult for them to change in response to events (‘plasticity’ of the brain is reduced).

Inspiration for troubled times
In troubled times we all need some inspiration to lift us out of the hole we may find ourselves in and give us hope for the future. Words of inspiration shine a light in the dark corners of our mind and dissipate the fearsome shapes and shadows our imaginings have created.

FAST FORWARD TO SUCCESS
Having all your "ducks in a row" is important to your success. Pia Lord on her internet show The Pia Lord Show discusses value based investing and using the forward fast technique to quickly and surely discovering your values.

Holding the Space
The task of merging a Canadian and American company.

9 Ideas to Reduce Cliques at Work

My thesis is that cliques at work have some helpful components, but they often do more harm than good by being exclusive elements in the culture. Top performance in any organization requires the best effort of the entire team, and when parts of the group are fragmented into insular cells, all kinds or gremlins creep into the structure. In the extreme, cliques can be hurtful to the mission of an orgnaization. But cliques are as natural as pancakes for breakfast. They form spontaneously and have their own unwritten bylaws that serve the members very well. How can leaders reduce the negative impact of cliques? Here are 9 ideas that can help reduce the problem.

'How do you explain NLP to others?'
Here's a straightforward, practical and easy-to-digest way of explaining what NLP is, at its core. This description has been used very successfully by NLP enthusiasts with many, many skeptics around the world. Enjoy!

BOYS TO MEN
When Does a Boy Truly Become a Man? No, I have not gone off the rails, nor am I losing my mind; this is not about “boy bands,” although after all these years I must confess that I really, really liked them. This is just a few of my thoughts on becoming a man. Let me start by saying that I think the question of becoming a man is really a values question. Let me explain.

Prosperity: From Striving to Thriving
Honor your values in order to thrive, flourish and prosper

10 Questions to find a business idea that is a perfect fit for you
So you want to start a business but you are sure what kind. Here are 10 questions to ask yourself so that you can narrow your focus and identify the right business for you.

The Truth about Mondays by Linda J Lord
The Pitch: How soccer strategies relate to success in business and life.

STRUGGLING TOWARD A CONSTANCY TO PURPOSE

One of the unfortunate realities of our time is the tendency we have of allowing other persons and society define the meaning of success in our lives. In doing so we absolve ourselves from any meaningful internal dialogue and true understanding of who we are and why we were meant to be here or our purpose/mission in life. Those who regularly read my bulletins know that I have some pretty strong opinions about how we all should live our lives. This statement seems contradictory to my opening remarks but stay with me and I will explain. I thought it would be interesting for us to examine how four different generations might view success based upon what we have come to know about them and what they value. Perhaps from this cursory examination we might get some ideas for what truly constitutes SUCCESS?

12 Ways To a Happier Life
If you want some short-cuts to living a happier more fulfilled life then look no further. Beware though because all involve you doing some work!

Moving to a 'consequential corporate culture'

In any organisation it is the behaviour of its’ people that lead to success, mediocrity or failure. Behaviours stem from a set of values that the organisation must understand and that leadership must role model. Behaviours must also have consequences for the values to have any credibility; an up side for good behaviour in terms of recognition and reward and a downside for poor behaviour in terms of challenge, coaching, training and development and perhaps even having to leave the organisation. In the article we provide 10 areas that you must focus on to embed values and the right behaviours in your business.

Purpose & Values are Verbs!
Forget "touchy-feeley" Using your core sense of purpose and values as an active tool set is as tangible as a financial statement or any spread sheet you could build. See how in simple terms from this article by Rudy Miick, FCSI, CMC

7 Killer Life Coaching Tips
7 life coaching tips that if you adopt and maintain will improve the quality of your life exponentially.

Do Your Values Drive or Derail Leadership? Part 1
The world needs strong, competent leaders now more than ever before. Effective leaders are needed in big and small businesses, as well as in communities and civic organizations.

Do Your Values Drive or Derail Leadership? Part 2
Our values affect the way we conduct business too. For example, a leader who grew up during the depression and values security will make low-risk investments whereas someone a bit younger may be less risk-averse. One business owner may value being debt-free while another business owner may believe debt is a necessity for growth.

Find Meaningful Work to Feel Fulfilled

Meaningful and engaging work is the key to a profitable business. When people feel their work is meaningful the end result is a more productive office or department with a satisfied and fulfilled workforce. What is meant when we say work is meaningful and engaging? Read this article to understand how encouraging others to find a way to make their work meaningful and engaging can benefit the business and themselves.

Values The Foundation of Your Business

A recent Boston Globe Magazine article (1/11/04) entitled Ballistic to Holistic written by Elaine McArdle describes a lawyer who initially envisioned herself in “a noble profession that would improve people’s lives.” While this lawyer wanted to practice a kind of law that sought justice and reasonable resolutions to conflict what she saw was a profession with lawyers intent on destroying their opponents by any means-hardly a way to improve anyone’s life and certainly not hers.

Executive Coaching Whats in it for me
Just what makes a person sign up and pay for a series of Coaching sessions?

Finding Meaningful Work Starts With Self Awareness
Self Awareness is the first step in finding meaningful work. You must know your strengths, values and talents. More than that however you must be aware of your thoughts and how they affect the work that you do. Only by keeping your thoughts focused on the result you want will you begin to the journey toward meaningful work.

Finding Your Voice
Finding your voice" means finding a way to express your ideas with passion so that you connect with others. We all have ideas and thoughts that we feel strongly about. Learn how important finding your voice is and how it relates to career and job fulfillment.

How Do You Find Meaningful Work? - 10 Questions to Ask Yourself To Get A Good Fit
When looking for meaningful work, most people focus on the responsibilities of the job to find a good fit. There are three other pieces of the equation that should not be overlooked - your fellow workers, your manager, and the company. Here are 10 questions to ask yourself when you are seriously considering a particular job.

Three Simple Ways to Get Job Satisfaction From a Job You Hate
If you are stuck in a job you hate, you are making a fatal mistake that can sink your career plans. There are 3 simple ways to energize yourself and your career. Without them you will remain in limbo with no way to save yourself.

Keep Values Simple
I believe less is more when establishing the values of an organization. It is a mistake to have a long shopping list of values that cannot be easily be remembered by everyone in the organization. Reason: once the list becomes more than an handful of concepts, it loses power because people cannot internalize them easily.

The Decline in Trust & Confidence in Leadership

We are wintnessing an alarming trend of public distrust and disrepect of leadership. This trend can have significant consequences on the future as it is our leaders that we look to for vision and hope and guidance. Without faith in leaders where do we go? How do we restore trust & confidence back into this once revered profession? Join LiftOFF Leadership in discussions of a leadership renaissance.

A New Measurement of Leadership Success
The incorporation of ethical and foundational values into the measurement of a leader's success will help ensure that organizations and institutions operate in ways that contribute to society in meaningful ways. One such measurement is VOP.

Showing Appreciation - Learning From Watching Your Team
One of the simplest management tactics you can use to build trust and positive morale is where you find a small amount of time in your day to appreciate your people.

THE PARADOXICAL WAY WE LIVE

How is it that we have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time. We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more medical experts but less wellness. We have taller buildings but shorter tempers, wider freeways but narrower viewpoints. We spend more but enjoy less. I mean just what is it that we have created here anyway! What have we been thinking or perhaps we haven’t been thinking, at least not enough about what really counts, what really is important in our lives. If the paradoxes we find all around us are an indication of how effective we have become at living happy, fulfilling lives, we are in real trouble.

Build Your Own Strategic Plan
Creating a strategic plan for your life can literally change your whole experience in whatever you want to do. Wouldn't you like to be in better control of your destiny from year to year? You can, just read and follow the advice in this article.

Use Meetings to Communicate Your Values
It is important to have a list of personal values, and it is just as important to share your values with others. This article focuses on the process of generating personal values and sharing them in a meeting format.

How to Upgrade to the Next Version of Yourself
ULTIMATELY: Upgrading yourself benefits everybody. Here's how.

DOMINO’S PIZZA FOUNDER TOM MONAGHAN HAS PUT HIS MONEY WHERE HIS VALUES ARE
You know him for his brilliant achievements in business. Today Pizza Tiger Tom Monaghan is putting that same enterprise and entrepreneurial spirit into higher education.

The Basic Elements of an Empowering and Enduring Life Purpose

Many elements could contribute to the creation of a powerful, long lasting, and flexible life purpose. In my work with hundreds of individuals and thousands of people in groups, I have found the following three elements to be most effective: • Vision: What is the vision or possibility you see for the world? • Values: What are the core values you stand for and are willing to give your life for? • Being: Who are you? What can people count on from you? Life purpose is more about who you are than what you do. Remember, we’re called human beings, not human doings.

Are you ready for Sustainable Selling?
With the green agenda comes Sustainable Selling. More and more questions are being asked by many about how we can best manage this relationship now and for future generations? I recently attended and spoke at the 6th CIPS Australasia Annual Conference (peak industry body for the Procurement Profession) where Sustainability was well and truly on the agenda.

Why hiring or keeping the 600lb sales gorilla is a mistake

For many years the legend of the 600lb sales gorilla or Alpha sales superstar has been strutting the hallways and boardrooms of businesses. Often revered for achieving top of the league ladder sales results, yet feared by many for their aggressive, manipulative, ego centric, demanding, intimidating antics, countless CEOâ€™s and sales managers have allowed these sales prima donnas to remain in their sales teams but at what cost to their sales team and their business?

Renewal

Every New Year's Eve, I go through a kind of renewal ritual. It is my gift to myself for having done my best for the past year, and it allows me to look forward to an even better year to come. I have recommended some form of this for all people who take my leadership classes. It does not need to be done on the New Year; some people like to do this on their birthday or some other specific day of the year. The point is to designate one day to reflect on what you have done, where you are, and what you intend to do in the coming year and beyond.

Is Your Management Causing Employee Issues and Slow Business Growth?
Employee issues are most often symptoms of inconsistent or failing management; deal with supervisor/manager competency and impact and you not only have engaged employees but also an effective, productive and efficient organization.

Lessons from Sobibor
I never tire of stories of survival of any kind. I like to learn from them the values, beliefs and actions that supported them to come out of a crisis situation where it seemed the “odds” were against them.

Neon Hypocrisy
Many organizations have a value that states "employees are our most important asset." The value hangs in the lobby on a plaque, but it is not reflected in the actions of leaders, so it shines like a neon sign that lowers trust. This article suggests some things that can change the pattern.

Small Business Growth Quiz – 7 Market Focused Questions You Must Ask To Help You Grow
Stop thinking like a small business owner... here are 7 Questions to think about and respond to when planning for Business Growth

What Is The Foundation for Your Vision?
Who we are often manipulates what we do. The values we hold dear should represent the way we conduct business. But do they? Learn more about the foundation or your vision...

7 Steps to Developing Principles, Values and Premises
“Why can’t people just do the right thing? I sometimes feel like I am babysitting!”

When You Should Promote From Within And When You Should Hire From Outside The Company

Their company was on the rise. They had gone from $50 million in sales to $250 million in just 10 years. They had a softball team, a family picnic every year, and a Christmas party that was so loved by everyone that groups of people would get blocks of rooms and stay the night to party together. Almost every Thursday the entire office would end up at a local bar for a few drinks together. Most of the Senior Vice Presidents made it on Thursday night as well. And then the CEO decided to retire.

How Old Would You Be If You Didn't Know How Old You Were?

This article is not so much written for the younger crowd let’s say up to about 30 years of age who generally do not often think about “father time.” As life events ‘typically’ unfold they have most of their lives still out in front of them, very little of their lives belongs in the past, therefore they really have not accumulated anywhere close to a “fine cargo of life experiences” nor are they likely to feel any particular sense of urgency around age because they see having all the time in the world. So, that leaves the rest of us to try and answer the question; how old would you be if you didn’t know how old you were? I mean if you didn’t have any idea of your actual age in years, what would guide you to an answer?

Decisions and Motivations
Everyone makes decisions differently and is motivated or driven by different things. Being aware of and understanding these differences is really important when managing employees or creating relationships.

Values, Valued, and Value

Do you live your values? Are they written on your heart? Do you know and measure how your values are lived? Do you value yourself and everything uniquely remarkable that you bring to the world? We cannot truly value others until we really and honestly value the one-of-kind beings that we are. Does your organization really provide value? What would you be paid if your customers/clients could decide your value?

Beyond Belief
What we believe is one thing. What we do is what really matters.

Walking Your Talk & Running Away With Your Ideas
Eric Clapton sang the definitive song ‘Change The World’. It is about making way for your dreams and aspirations. The Buddha taught: ‘Do good. Be good.’ How do express your ideas and business intent?

Working in Wicked Way
Being wicked may not be a useful personal or professional core value. Instead, be wickedly creative or wickedly funny (when things do not go as you have planned it). Be wickedly friendly when others play stranger, or a wicked leader when a meeting goes nowhere and you take charge of getting the results.

The Ten Tenets of Courageous Confident Women
The Ten Rules that Courageous Confident Women Know. An overview of qualities that women who are leaders, inspiration to others, and successful know they need to create the life they crave.

Lead with Values
Living by your values ensures that you are free to be you and that you enjoy yourself.

STRESS (Is Yours a Life of Quiet Desperation?)

If you are old enough to remember but not so old as to forget, there was a time not so long ago we were led to believe that with the advent of new technology, in particular the computer, our lives would be so much simpler, that we would have more leisure time to enjoy a much fuller life. I didn’t get the new memo, what happened? I mean come on; we haven’t gone to a simpler, gentler, more leisure filled life. Just the opposite has occurred; the velocity of our lives has reached breakneck speed!

Integrity-It\'s What You Do When No One\'s Looking
Integrity- it's easy to say you have it, harder to prove you do. We can have integrity when we are being evaluated and public. But it's what you do when you're alone and nobody is looking that is really the true measure of your values.

Great Stories Change Cultures

It’s always fascinating talking to clients and listening to engrossing, sometimes astonishing, stories about their organisations and their Brands – what surprises me is how few of the really good ones are used as company assets to strengthen their cultures and inspire their workplaces to positive change. Many change initiatives fail is because they rely too much on the classic ‘data gathering, analysis, report writing, and presentations’ instead of more creative approaches that use great stories to grab feelings and to motivate real performance improvement.

Perception Is Projection
Are you a glass half full or glass half empty person? Learn how values, beliefs, attitudes, past experiences, memories and how we process information impacts the way we see the world. Learn to focus your attention more positively.

The Price of Home-Based Business Success
Everything in life comes with a price, including home-based business success. The question is, are you willing to pay for it?

The Price of Home-Based Business Success
Everything in life comes with a price, including home-based business success. The question is, are you willing to pay for it?

BUILDING A HIGH PERFORMING TEAM
When you see a high performing team, whether in sport or business, they really stand out. So what’s their secret? Are they just a better group of individuals brought together in one team, or is there something more to it? High performing teams don’t just happen by accident and there are always a number of common ingredients that they all share.

6 Ways To Make 2012 an Inspiring Year
A new year, a new beginning. A time for contemplation. What did you accomplish last year? Did you evolve your business, your team, yourself? Where did you miss the mark? How can you improve this year?

Success! 3 Steps To Define, Live, Own Your Values
If you could choose only one area to begin your journey to make 2012 your year, then I would advise you to define, live, own your values.

Success is Measured Between the Lines

Growing up, I often heard from my parents, teachers, and coaches, that I could be anything that I wanted to be, that success was within my grasp if I put my mind to it, worked and studied hard. “THINK BIG,” they said. I could be an accountant, lawyer, CEO, doctor, pilot, professional football player (my idea), ________ (you fill in the blank). Magazines, newspapers, radio and television screamed out and reinforced the idea that to be successful I had to own a big home, live in the best neighbourhood, drive a big car(s), eat at the best restaurants, join the best clubs, have season tickets to the theatre, travel to exotic climates.

Getting Sach'd
Recently Greg Smith submitted his resignation from Goldman Sachs in a rather public way, with an op-ed in the New York Times. His diatribe against the abuses of a culture he described as "not right" led to an outpouring of emotion that will reverberate around the financial world and social media for years.

Your Value System Will Set You Up For Success

In the position of leadership, as in the person in charge of a company, do we discuss our personal value system? Is this of great importance to discuss? It is my belief that this is one of the critical foundational building blocks which has been missing for a number of years and is a contributing factor to the current leadership void which exists today in corporate America. This is not to say bring your religious beliefs or spiritual practices exactly as these are practiced into the workplace.

Time Management of Activities to Soar Your Energy
You've heard this before I'm sure: we spend more time getting clear on the goals of a vacation than we do being clear on our life goals, and values. But, have you heard this: if you get frustrated when things come up because they interfere with what your “planned” priorities are, it could be because of these two important, often missing, pieces.

Bumping Into Your Organization’s Values
If you asked employees to recite the organization's values could they? More importantly do those values instantly determine their course of action? This article will help you better integrate your values into the culture.

Discovering and Living by Your Core Values
Core values are essential to keeping your life on track. Do you know yours? Most don't! Would you like to know yours? Here are a couple of quick ways to help you get started in discovering your core values and help you hammer them into a values statement:

How do you create corporate values?
How should the corporate values be created? Where do they come from? Can the brands a company has have their own values? Can these extend the corporate core values? Where do the brand values come from? Pasi, Sales and Marketing Executive Finland

Some Common Misconceptions about Values
Although values are at the core of leadership, many people may not be completely faithful to the notion of leading according to their personal values. Oftentimes situational demands and inter-value conflicts can cause leaders to spend considerable amounts of time of doing non-values related activities, and doing so can result in diminishing levels of effectiveness.

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