Those who can’t manage themselves can’t be expected to manage anything else either.
My first two cars were Orange and Brown. Not great colors for a car, but great colors for a Cleveland Browns fan. My first real purchase when I started working was two Browns season tickets. I was both an official Browns Supporter and an unofficial Browns supporter who really was at the 4th longest NFL […]
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Teachable moments abound, and the mentee’s level of vulnerability determines the mentee’s teachability. The mentee must be willing to learn through formal and informal lessons. You and the mentee should identify learning opportunities from which the mentee can glean meaningful insights and then implement the lessons learned in a way that produces tangible results. A
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To gain your respect and admiration, and to maximize the relationship and your time, the mentee must account for his or her actions (good or bad) to you because you are in a superior position to judge the mentee’s actions, provide encouragement or initiate correction. Flying solo without regard to others and the rules that
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Let the mentee know that the first step to establishing an effective mentoring relationship is for the mentee to slowly expose his or her weaknesses to enable you to focus your efforts on better equipping the mentee for independence and success. In other words, the mentee’s guard has to come down to enable the mentee
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I often reflect on the point in my career when I was promoted to a position reporting to the Vice Chairman of one of the largest insurance companies in the world. I was so excited to be a senior person “in charge” at a young stage of my career. However, I began to notice, in
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It’s the quest of many working people – work hard, do a good job and get promoted someday so you can be the boss. It’s the reward in most corporate cultures, to climb the ladder and be in charge. If most of us get to the top by climbing our way there, how come we
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Charlie Bell, CEO of McDonalds, (60 years old) Ranjan Das, CEO of SAP India, (42 years old) and Jerald Fishman, CEO of Analog Services (67 years old) – What do these men have in common? The world lost them way too soon to a disease that is becoming all too common among CEOs. Heart disease.
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Nadine Lajoie After the tragedy of the Asiana Boeing 777 plane, crash-landed on the runway at San Francisco airport, as the CEO of our business, but most importantly, the CEO of our “higher self”, the questions we may ask ourselves are: “If that would have happened to us, can we say we lived fully, with
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Logan Stout One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “What’s your secret to success?” This is a loaded question with a formula of answers (hence the reason I wrote Stout Advice: The Secrets to building yourself, people, and teams), so there is no one secret. However, there are three primary elements that must
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Patrick Alain Communication skills are key to achieving any goal or enabling any process. A leader with great ideas and strong skill is of little or no use if he is unable to communicate his thoughts, opinions and plans to the team following him. Vision, command, innovativeness, bravery and foresight are all indispensable traits of
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