Did you really understand what your company’s balance sheet, profit & loss statement, and cash flow report were revealing to you the last time you looked at them? If your answer to that question was “What’s a balance sheet, and those other things you mentioned?” you are in danger of losing control of your...
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I recently bumped into “Terry,” the president of a company I worked with four years ago.  During my engagement with them, we’d done strategic planning, leadership succession planning, and lots of management team and systems development (i.e., process and procedures development and management training). Because it’d been awhile since I’d worked with them, I...
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I never met Robert ‘Tink’ Lehmer. I wish I had. He thought the way great leaders think. I say this because of a little poem he wrote in 1976. Tink’s poem was shared during a Leadership Training program graduation ceremony I recently attended. My hope for the graduates is that they paid attention and...
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Leadership hypocrisy, that’s a rather startling phrase isn’t it? Truth be told, you’re probably waiting to see what I have to say about some slimy individuals who have cheated their customers, scammed their vendors, and profited grotesquely while their employees have barely earned a sustainable wage. Nope. Leadership hypocrisy can be much more subtle....
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