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(Influential Leadership) Seek Out Opportunities To Serve Others

“Sometimes leadership is just being there and showing that you care.” Ever notice how the smallest acts can leave the biggest impressions? In this week’s Influential Leadership Tips, we share a simple, true story of a stranger on a plane—and how one compassionate decision perfectly illustrates servant leadership in action.   No titles. No authority.

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Career Journey, Worker To Consulting Rock Star

“My self-image had to change to realize I had something to offer.”   Last time, I wrote about my friend Dave Miller and his journey from actuary, to successful business coach, back to actuary.  This time I’m going to talk about Alan Seiden, who turned a little bit of moonlighting into a consulting practice where

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(Influential Leadership) Consider Your Impact as a Leader

“Most people would rather have a lousy job working for a great person than a great job working for a bad manager.”     I read an interview with Aron Ain, then the CEO of Kronos, a workforce management systems company.  He had a lot of interesting things to say about your impact as a

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(Influential Leadership) Dealing With Adversity

“Don’t assume everything will go right. Assume something won’t—and you’ll stay centered.”   What can you learn from a tennis champion’s meltdown in the middle of a critical match?   If you’ve ever had a presentation go sideways (or a team project implode without warning), you’ll appreciate these simple strategies that keep your leadership steady

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(Influential Leadership) Follow The C-Suite Road

“The highest-value roles require skills that don’t tend to ride together in nature.”     Ever wonder what actually gets someone into the C-Suite?   LinkedIn studied 450,000 leaders — and the results upend a lot of popular assumptions.   In this short video, Dave and I break down: Why switching industries may hurt your

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(Influential Leadership) Follow The “Ben Chestnut” Principles

“The more I direct my people, the less they can perform without me.” In this episode of Influential Leadership, we share some powerful leadership principles from an interview with Ben Chestnut, the CEO of MailChimp, a successful internet startup.   Watch this 6 minute video now to discover Ben Chestnut’s leadership principles.   Transcript For

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(Influential Leadership) Lead From Below

“The best way to get into a leadership role is to demonstrate that you already have the attributes of a leader.” In this episode of Influential Leadership, we reveal how the most effective professionals lead from below — by reducing uncertainty, showing initiative, and demonstrating leadership long before it’s officially recognized. You’ll learn how small

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(Influential Leadership) Become More Pride-Based

“Pride is the fuel that drives the human enterprise; shame is the disease that destroys it.”   Every leader sends a message — pride or shame.  In our last episode we talked about this, and how to identify which way your organization or team is leaning.   In this episode of Influential Leadership Tips, we

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