Are you deliberately placing yourself as a leader throughout your day—or is your schedule at the whim of circumstance? All too often I find my schedule filling up with urgent appointments to the detriment of truly important things I’m trying to accomplish. There are any number of good places you could be at any moment: […]
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Every failure can be traced back to one thing: poor focus. Businesses stop focusing on the customer. Others lose sight of their values or purpose. Still others try to advance in too many directions at once. It’s the same with people. Relationships, dreams and pursuits fail because we can’t keep our eyes on the things
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Tom Watson Jr. was, by all accounts, a visionary leader. As President of IBM from 1952 to 1971, he was instrumental in the information revolution and the development of the modern computer. He also served as the president of the Boy Scouts of America and as the US Ambassador to the Soviet Union. He was an avid
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grav·i·ty (ˈgravitē) n. The natural force that attracts a body toward the center of any physical body having mass. Years ago, while traveling in Australia, a SCUBA trip I had planned fell through, so on a whim I found a skydiving school and asked if I could skydive that day. The bloke across the counter picked up
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July was a busy month for me. It included a weeklong road trip moving my family from New York City to Bentonville, Arkansas followed by trying to settle into our new home while delivering two back-to-back weeks of Leadership Academy for Walmart. Amid the chaos I was able to share six blog posts. Here were
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