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Category Archives: Leadership
What Is Your Values Proposition?
Yes, I really do mean values proposition, not value proposition. We’re accustomed to thinking of an organization’s or business value proposition – the degree that it meets the needs, wants and requirements of target markets and customers. We pay less … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Integrity, Leadership, Performance
Tagged authenticity, culture, ethics, integrity, leadership, organization development, value proposition, values
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Does Work Make You “Seasick?”
Recently a colleague shared her distress with the turmoil, continuous change and what seemed like unrealistic expectations at her workplace. As she described the conditions and her reactions, I couldn’t help thinking how similar they were to those of mates … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Leadership, Performance, Personal development, Sailing and outdoors, Teamwork
Tagged health, motion sickness, personal development, resilience, sailing, sea sickness, Stress, work
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Adventure Learning in the BWCA
As summer transitioned to fall not long ago, it was time for our annual adventure in the BWCA. (For those farther afield, Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area is over a million acres of waterways and forest on the Canadian border, … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Leadership, Personal development, Self Awareness, Teamwork
Tagged adventure, Boundary Waters, BWCA, leadership teamwork, Wilbers
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Clouds at Work
Do you remember laying on your back as a kid, looking up at the sky and figuring out what the clouds looked like? Here are some “clouds” to figure out – word clouds formed by about a hundred LinkedIn connections … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Leadership
Tagged LinkedIn, organization culture, Terkel, word cloud, Wordle, work
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Paying Attention To What Matters
We were on a nice port tack, but Raspberry Island was coming up fast; we needed to come about. I coached my nephews – one at the wheel and one at the winches – how to execute the maneuver, so … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Integrity, Leadership, Performance
Tagged accountability, leadership, management, measurement, performance, personal development, responsibility, sailing
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Compounded Errors
Once again this season, our sloop LOON is serving up life and leadership lessons, and in unexpected ways. The first this year began when a charterer reported a small fresh water leak at the base of LOON’s toilet – by … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Personal development, Uncategorized
Tagged compound errors, disasters, errors, leadership
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A Slippery Slope
I had the pleasure of lunch recently with the former VP of Sales for a $16 million technology company, published author and speaker. Mark Faris freely shares another distinguishing credential: he is a convicted felon for mail / wire fraud … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Integrity, Leadership, Values
Tagged business ethics, culture, ethics, Faris, integrity, leadership, morals, motives, principles, stewardship, values, white collar crime
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A Word About The Wise
by Al Watts and Lola Fredrickson Who’s the wisest person you know? Why does that person come to mind, and what are some characteristics of other wise people you know? Competency, skills and expertise are desirable, but cannot take the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Leadership, Personal development
Tagged competence, discernment, judgement, knowledge, learning, management, mentor, problem-solving, questions, wisdom, wise
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Recipe for Success in 2012
We pulled out a time-honored family recipe over the holidays, and that got me thinking about what a recipe for success in 2012 might be. I tried to follow the criteria for most good recipes: they should be relatively simple … Continue reading
Posted in Integrity, Leadership, Performance, Personal development
Tagged goals, leadership, new year, planning, resolution, success
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