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Leadership is a learnable skill - recruit supervisors for attitude
By Denis Becker · 4 years ago
Have you ever struggled to identify suitable internal candidates for first-line leadership positions? Have you promoted great operators that subsequently turned out to be not so great as supervisors?
Have you recruited experienced supervisors or ...
It's Not Just A Pen
By Luke Crane · 4 years ago
We are about the relentless pursuit of excellence. — Ward Wiebe
At Ritz-Carlton, the tiniest details matter. In the fantastic read "The New Gold Standard" by J. Michelli, he tells the story of the development ...
From Getting Stars to Getting Them
By Luke Crane · 4 years ago
Being a leader is sacrificial... it will cost you.
In 1955, the first polio vaccine was introduced at a large press conference by Jonas Salk. He was publicly credited as a miracle worker in polio ...
Emotional Bank Accounts
By Luke Crane · 4 years ago
No doubt emotional intelligence is more rare than book smarts, but my experience says it is actually more important in the making of a leader. You just can’t ignore it. — Jack Welch
Everyone is ...
Progress Not Perfection
By Luke Crane · 4 years ago
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.
— Benjamin Franklin
Consider this scenario. You are new to a team, and your leader asks you to take on ...
Weaknesses Aren't Strengths
By Luke Crane · 4 years ago
Story Time…
I had two different passions in high school, football and marching band. More specifically drumline. Now if you know anything about football games, you know that the team plays the first half and ...
Raise Your Leadership Ceiling
By Luke Crane · 4 years ago
Anyone can steer the ship, it takes a leader to chart the course.— John Maxwell
When I think about leadership, I think about satellites. At any given time a satellite can be flying above us. ...
The Most Important Word in Someone's Vocabulary
By Luke Crane · 4 years ago
"What is the most important word in someone’s vocabulary?" was the question a leader who I greatly admire asked me. Trying to be funny in the moment I answered "yes". He quickly responded "no". We ...
How to Be a Leader Without the Power
By Luke Crane · 4 years ago
There is a distinction that needs to be made between leaders and authority. Simply having authority does not make you a leader. Leadership encompasses so many areas. It would take a lifetime to list them ...
Leisurely Reading Helps Fuel Entrepreneurship
By Jane Ellison · 5 years ago
Warren Buffet invests 80% of each day to reading, Bill Gates commits to reading one book a week, Mark Zuckerberg reads one book every fortnight and shares it in his online book club. Mark Cuban ...
How To Choose a Mentor
By Bill Treasurer · 7 years ago
The benefits of having a mentor are big. A survey of Fortune 500 companies found that 96% of executives credited mentoring as an important development tool and 75% said mentoring played a key role in ...
A Moment Captured In Time
By John Woo · 7 years ago
Ever since the first camera was invented, pictures stood as the best proof for time that can be relived. They say a picture is worth a thousand words. However, when it is of a loved ...
How Leaders Demonstrate their Support of Diversity and Inclusion to Accelerate Business Results
By Lenora Billings-Harris · 7 years ago
Although diversity and inclusion strategies and tactics have been in place with some organizations for a long time, the question I am most frequently asked by diversity practitioners is, " How can I help our ...
Can We Value Differences When We Can't Be Civil?
By Lenora Billings-Harris · 8 years ago
I wrote the original version of this article in 2006. Unfortunately, it seems our society has become even more uncivil rather than more civil. Join me in being part of the change.
Have you ever ...
The Power of the Pause
By Lenora Billings-Harris · 8 years ago
A letter was sent to Wasif Qureshi, president of the Islamic Center for Greensboro (North Carolina) requesting that Muslims should "be less visible." The writer indicated that his customers were bothered by Muslims being so ...
Collaboration: Is it a sign of weakness or strength?
By Lenora Billing-Harris · 8 years ago
For the last twelve months I have had the honor of leading a global team – leaders from six different countries. In my personal life, I have been managing by long distance, the affairs of ...
Stop the Silent Revolution! - Part Two
By Lenora Billings-Harris · 8 years ago
Last month I urged you as an individual to speak up and speak out to end the Silent Revolution. The Silent Revolution exists because well-meaning people stay silent when they should speak up at work, ...
Team Building Activities
By Monica Junca Badia · 8 years ago
There are many activities that can be organised and are very useful when organising a team Building event. There are some of them where its participants do not know each other because the activity – ...
Creating a Climate of Inclusion: Whose Job Is It?
By Lenora Billings-Harris · 8 years ago
Who holds the responsibility of creating and sustaining a workplace that is diverse, respectful and inclusive within your organization?
• Everyone?
• Human Resources Director?
• Chief Diversity Officer (CDO)?
• No one?
The HR ...
Diversity and Inclusion Councils: Are They Effective?
By Lenora Billings-Harris · 8 years ago
Most organizations start their actions for building an inclusive and engaged workforce by offering diversity and inclusion training. This usually raises everyone’s awareness of how they can interact more effectively with people different from themselves, ...