[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Leadership Design Group exists” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] In part, to help organizational teams, both board and staff, profit or non-profit, to be fully alive in all their purposes for why they even exist. If you knew my own personal story across the 75 years of my life you would hear how, especially, […]
[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Leadership is often counterintuitive.” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] The normal way we see leadership in Business, Institutions, or Non-Profits is as a linear command-and-conquer strategy. Usually we see C-level executives, no matter what type of organization, who set the course for the rest of a company, including those who may or may not
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Gettysburg…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …The name and place evokes such powerful emotions in Americans. A good friend of mine develops current leaders by exploring examples of past leaders—great, good and otherwise—at the Battle of Gettysburg. (See his program, “If Properly Led” here.) What becomes clear from the study of any good leader
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Not long ago…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …I was walking the hallways of a journalist convention held in Raleigh, North Carolina. The question for the conference was basically how do news organizations deal with the “Religion” section of the paper? Is there a new way of reporting on faith in the age of
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[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”31-0 At Halftime…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] …How would you react? I suppose it would depend on whether your team was the one with 31 or the one with zero, wouldn’t it? In truth, how you react would depend on whether you are looking back—at the first half—or looking ahead at the half
[blox_column width=”1/1″][/blox_column][blox_heading title=”Laura Ingalls Wilder has enriched three generations of my family…” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] My wife and I read the Little House on the Prairie series in our childhood and early in our marriage, we bought the whole set of nine books. It is worn and dog-eared now, having been read by my
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”What is your Leadership Quotient? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] What, exactly, is a quotient? The dictionary definition is: the degree to which a specific quality or characteristic exists. Most of are familiar with the IQ—Intelligence Quotient. Later researchers developed various measures of EQ—Emotional Quotient, or more commonly, Emotional Intelligence. Recently, this trend has
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”What is it about fiery crashes that captivates us? ” size=”h3″ style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] Video of the 9/11 aircraft attacks on the twin towers attracted over 30 million viewers to YouTube. A recent aircraft accident in San Francisco has attracted 4.8 million viewers. Even the non-fiery landing of US Air Flight 1539 into
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[blox_row][blox_column width=”1/1″][blox_heading title=”Just like humans, mentoring comes in all shapes, sizes, lengths, colors and intensities. It can be as brief as an hour, or for a lifetime. ” style=”style5″ animation=”none”][/blox_heading][blox_text animation=”none”] However, the best of any form or length of mentoring always has four crucial elements to it. Without the stirring up of these elements,
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