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Personal Power vs. Positional Power

Power may be thought of as either positional or personal. Positional Power is external to you. It is your important job title,

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The Leader’s Path: Evolving Points of View

I used to oppose the minimum wage, for some excellent reasons that reflected sound economic reasoning. Over the years I’ve gradually switched

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The Social Contract

While driving down the street the other day, I heard an ambulance siren behind me so I pulled over to allow it

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Memo To My Company:

Please, please promise never to do this to our customers! Whenever I experience a mediocre customer service encounter, I think, “How can

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Change BEFORE a Crisis Forces You to Change

I’ve always thought that change was inevitable in life. Yet a significant part of me is a control freak who is very

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“The Secret of The Ages” by Robert Collier

My grandfather, Robert Collier, died in 1950, two years before I was born. He was a tremendous businessman, a pioneer in the

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Thoughts on Customer Service

The principle is that at some levels, business is simple: Take care of your customers and they will take care of you.

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Over-treated

Recently, I read an excellent book by Shannon Brownlee, “Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer.” Its thesis

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Simple Ideas, Complex Execution

The secrets to success often lie in plain sight. They are secrets only because we chose to overlook them. Sometimes the most

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Servant Leadership

Wikipedia says, “Servant leadership is an approach to leadership development, coined and defined by Robert Greenleaf, and advanced by several authors such

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Communicating From The Heart

What follows is a summary of an excellent book whose principles I recommend heartily (pun intended!). Five Principles of Communicating from the

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One Worry

An article ran (see below) in a recent Wall Street Journal suggesting that one of the biggest issues facing executives is time