Blog Archives

Leader-Leader for Greatness (David Marquet)

Last spring I saw David Marquet speak at the Leadership Summit and posted a video afterwords.  His way of looking at leadership is powerful!  This video is a fun visualization of these ideas.  Take this into your next monthly leadership

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Is it crazy to pay your employees to learn?

I love what Legal Monkeys has done to create a culture of learning.  When you out-learn your competition, you win.

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Back on My Feet – a Business Making a Difference

Grab a tissue before you watch this one. White lodging hires folks that really needed some help, through this amazing program using running to move people from homelessness to accomplishment.

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Legal Monkeys Appreciation Board

Here’s a great idea you could copy in your own company. The idea is to build your culture, using appreciation. Brilliant!

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Can you take your submarine from 1 leader, 134 followers to 135 leaders?

David Marquet trained for a whole year learning one kind of nuclear submarine and two weeks before taking command, was transfered to another kind.  Everything he’d learned about leadership told him that he needed to be the smartest guy on

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Liz Wiseman on Multipliers

At the 2010 Growth Summit, Liz Wiseman spoke about her book Multipliers.  Are you a genius or a genius-maker? In your organization, are you getting the most out of your people?  If not, you may have accidental diminishers in supervisory

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How To Transform A Difficult Person

You know that conventional saw, “You can’t change anyone buy yourself”?  It’s not true.  The way you change someone else is by changing how you react to that person.  One part of that is giving up the need to be

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Core Purpose: Southwest Airlines

Doug Wick’s looks into purpose on his blog. The reason Southwest Airlines exists is democratize air travel in America. Southwest believes that flying on airplanes shouldn’t be reserved for the wealthy and the people should be able to attend a

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Free Topgrading webinar

via Verne Harnish: The toughest decisions in organizations are people decisions – hiring, firing, promotion, etc. These are the decisions that receive the least attention and are the hardest to unmake. Peter Drucker June 22, 2pm ET — complimentary Topgrading webcast

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