Posts Tagged ‘focus’
Great Leaders Keep People, Not Things, at the Center
What started as a small project that my wife, Jamie, and I worked on in our spare time quickly turned into a viable business. We both quit our jobs and went all in on the new venture. Eleven years later, we had offices in three states, amazing team members, and an enviable list of loyal…
Read More4 Key Questions to Create Customer Centric Teams
Here are four customer centric questions that you and your team should work to answer. [restrict] [/restrict] Patrick LeddinPatrick Leddin, PhD is a speaker, global leadership consultant, and The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Five-Week Leadership Challenge. Patrick is an Associate Professor at Vanderbilt University with a thriving leadership blog and podcast, and…
Read MoreEpisode 004. Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals With Chris McChesney
The author of the #1 book in the world on executing strategy, Chris McChesney, joins Patrick in the lab to discuss how great leaders work with their teams to accomplish what is truly wildly important. Download the Episode #4 application tool. Patrick LeddinPatrick Leddin, PhD is a speaker, global leadership consultant, and The Wall Street…
Read MoreHow USWNT Coach Jill Ellis’ Response to Criticism Can Inform You as a Leader
U.S. Women’s National Team (USWNT) coach Jill Ellis has had more than her share of criticism and second-guessing over the years. Here are a few recent examples: SBNation declared that although the USWNT is extremely talented, the team “is barreling towards the World Cup with no idea what it should look like. It’s concerning.” The…
Read More5 Lego Leadership Lessons that Can Be the Building Blocks to Your Success
The Wall Street Journal recently reported that Lego, was hitting brick walls in its efforts to move to sustainable alternatives to its raw materials. “Realizing the scale of the challenge, it (Lego) later invested $150 million to hire scientists and fund research and development,” to reach its goal by 2030. Guy Brooks, Lego‘s head of environmental…
Read MoreQueen shares why your early career needs a “free fall”
Guest Writer: Queen Stevenson This coming May, it will be two years since I graduated college. Wrapping my head around that is difficult, as I can just about remember what it was like to hammer through a last minute paper, or scramble to get to my dining center before it closed and I went hungry…
Read MoreAnswering These Key Questions Will Dramatically Change How You Lead
If you want to be a truly great leader, you must start by leading yourself. This includes having a vision or mission that inspires and energizes you. It also means that you have a clear purpose in mind for everything you do—initiatives, projects, meetings. It’s based on the simple principle of knowing your destination early.…
Read MoreThe Answer to Engaging Your People May Lie in a 2,200-Year-Old Story
The great Archimedes (287–212 BCE), one of the world’s finest mathematicians, was a person before his time. Not only did he invent integral calculus and figure the approximate value of π (pi) he is also said to be the father of the machine age by discovering and putting to use the properties of levers and…
Read MoreFOCUS
It sounds obvious, but most of us have a way of piling up “must-do” priorities, making it impossible to do a very good job on any of them. One recipe for disengaging people is to overwhelm them with things to do, all of which are “Job 1” and “key priorities” and “top-of-the-list.” But if you…
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