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Daniel K. Walker, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Farmers & Merchants Bank Keeping your word. Seems like such a simple statement, a statement that could very well form the foundation of every person’s daily creed. But it doesn’t. We all know many people who make promises but don’t keep them . . . People who […]
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Linda Fisher Thornton, CEO, Leading in Context LLC It is easy to name the reasons for leading ethically that revolve around preventing problems – complying with laws and regulations, reducing employee complaints and preventing lawsuits, for example. But what about the many opportunities that proactive ethical leadership provides to the leaders and organizations who embrace it? The
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Leveraging Corporate Strategies to Achieve Your Personal & Professional Goals! No More Resolutions….It’s about Your Plan! It’s that time of year again — time to make New Year’s resolutions! According to StatisticsBrain.com,1 62% of us will make a resolution and only 8% of us will succeed! It’s no wonder that with such a low success rate that
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Luke Iorio, President & CEO, iPEC Thomas Paine’s advice to “lead, follow, or get out of the way” was good leadership theory when it was written over 200 years ago; but, if he lived today, Paine would have been more likely to say “Leader, get out of the way.” The concept of a leader making decisions
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What did Dickens really show us in his famous Christmas story? Is it really about an old man who had given up hope in the joy of life, or is there a deeper lesson for us to learn? Within us all is that crooked nosed humbug, Ebenezer Scrooge. Haven’t we all said “humbug” to neighbors
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Todd C. Williams, Founder & President, eCameron, Inc. As leaders, we have a lot to learn from Nelson Mandela. If we can, however, walk away from his passing with just one sage piece of advice it would be to search for ‘truth and reconciliation.’ There is huge significance in those words. Too many cultures have devolved
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Keith Dambrot, says it this way, the worst thing you can do is make a gifted player over-think. As Men’s Basketball Coach at The University of Akron and the first person to discover LeBron James on the elementary school playgrounds of Akron Oh, he should know. Great players play all on instinct versus thinking he
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Last week I talked about the first (i.e., it is lonely at the top) of several reasons why CEO’s need a coach and I introduced Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, who in a powerful video excerpt talked about why he works with a coach. It is my experience and, in fact, there are ample research
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Jim Alampi The single most critical leadership skill in growing companies is delegation. The absence of this skill in the CEO or at the executive team level causes more companies to get “stuck” than any other behavior. In a startup, being a hands-on executive is a useful characteristic, but once the number of people in
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Vinay Nadig You are a CEO or a business unit leader. Ultimately your success depends upon the breadth and depth of leadership you are able to grow amongst your teams. Of course you want to do this. If it’s not innate nature, then by now you have probably been subjected to countless “gurus” who have
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