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Fire Department Urgency

A few hours after I posted this blog, 19 firefighters tragically lost their lives in Arizona, giving everything they had ...

Choose How You Respond

We all get provoked.  An angry associate; a cranky customer; a snarling spouse.  In these cases, the primitive part of ...

6 Lessons I Learned From My Father

Robert Linkner was one strange dude.  He forged his own path as he journeyed from hippie to psychologist to retailer ...

Shoulda, Coulda, Woulda

Last week I heard from three different people on three separate occasions about how they had a great idea but ...

Sherpa Leadership: 5 Powerful Lessons

If you set out to climb Mt. Everest, one of the first things you do is hire a Sherpa.  Originally ...

The Creative Twist

Too often, leaders accept defeat when challenges seem insurmountable.  They concede quickly, bowing to the pressures of the day.  If ...

More, Less, Stop

In our frenetically busy lives, we all smack up against the same obstacle: time.  The 24-hour clock is a brutal ...

You’re Always Interviewing

Think how polished you were on the day you interviewed for your job.  Or applied for a small business loan.  ...

Never Embolden the Naysayers

At some point on the journey, every great contributor to the world was met with resistance.  The ones who made ...

The Five New Faces of Leadership

In the context of seemingly endless challenges, many of us have paused to reassess what it really takes to win.  ...