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Category Archives: Performance
Authenticity Is Two-Faced
There’s been a lot of talk about “authenticity;” we want authentic products, authentic experiences, and authentic leaders. We seek originality; we desire products and services, as well as leaders and organizations that are what they claim to be. Most of … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Performance, Personal development, Strategy
Tagged authenticity, awareness, leadership, strategy
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Step Up!
Where do your ideas, solutions and inspirations come from? If you’re like me, sometimes they originate unexpectedly, from sources that have no direct connection to any challenge or topic at hand. If you’ve read my articles before you know that … Continue reading
Posted in Integrity, Leadership, Motivation, Performance, Personal development
Tagged commitment, leadership, motivation, performance, personal development, training
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Why You Want A “EEE” Rating
We are conditioned to wanting a Standard and Poor’s “AAA” or Moody’s “Aaa” rating, those agencies’ highest level of confidence that organizations can repay their debt. Those traditional ratings are lagging indicators, however, after-the-fact reflections of what organizations have or … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Integrity, Leadership, Performance, quality, Strategy, Values
Tagged effectiveness, engagement, ethics, integrity, leadership, performance, sustainability
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Environmental Stewardship and Organization Effectiveness
(July’s guest blog post is by Stephanie Klein, PhD. I met Stephanie at a gathering of Minnesota Professionals for Psychology Applied to Work (MPPAW,) and I was happy to learn about her interest in the connection of environmental stewardship to … Continue reading
Posted in Ethics, Innovation, Performance, Stewardship
Tagged accountabiity, Environment, organization effectiveness, performance, stewardship, sustainability
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First Impressions
How do first impressions influence you? For the last few weeks I’ve been even more sensitive than usual to the their impact, probably because of the wide variation in quality that I experienced. Here are a few recent examples: We … Continue reading
How About A “Selfie?”
So, “Selfie” is Oxford Dictionaries’ “word of the year!” “Selfies,” of course, are those snapshots that we see practically everyone taking of themselves with smart phones and posting on social media. Oxford explains how “selfie” earned its distinction because of … Continue reading
Doldrums
Day after day, day after day, We stuck, no breath no motion; As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean. – (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Rime of the Ancient Mariner) Sailors know doldrums well – persistent stillness and lack … Continue reading
Posted in Leadership, Performance, Personal development, Sailing and outdoors, Teamwork
Tagged depression, leadership, motivation, performance, sailing, sales
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Persistence – Is It Always Good?
I’ve been thinking about persistence a lot lately. It started in the middle of gathering firewood in the BWCA, sawing a downed log that was a tad large for my folding saw. I kept at it, and was eventually rewarded … Continue reading
Posted in Adventure, Leadership, Performance, Personal development, Uncategorized
Tagged entrepreneur, goals, motivation, persistence, personal development, success
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How’s Your Core Strength?
Physical therapy following shoulder surgery and back issues gave me a new appreciation for “core strength.” Physiologically, core strength is primarily a function of our abdominal and lower back muscles, pelvis and diaphragm working together to provide support, balance and … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Ethics, Integrity, Leadership, Performance, Values
Tagged core strength, culture, ethics, leadership, peformance, strategy, strength, sustainability
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Clear the Deck!
In older days, “Clear the deck!” was a common command to prepare for doing battle at sea. The command focused attention, cleared visibility to gain a better perspective on the action, eliminated distractions and quickly channeled resources where they were … Continue reading