Tag Archives: leadership
What Can Christmas Teach You About Leadership?
It’s the most wonderful time of the year – a time when people, regardless of their religious affiliations, seem to draw closer to one another (notwithstanding the occasional trampling at Wal-Mart). The symbols of Christmas are of deep and abiding … Continue reading
30 Day Leadership Challenge (Free E-Book)
Our goal at IncBlot is to “flood the Earth with skills for living and leading” and part of that is providing great (we hope) content that helps you integrate leadership best practices into your everyday. Keeping this mission in mind, … Continue reading
5 Things Leaders Could Learn From a Marine
1. Make a f#$%ing decision. Don’t have all the information you need? Important consequences? Situation constantly changing? Cry me a river. You’re the boss. You’ve still got to make the decision, and it can’t wait until Jesus comes back and … Continue reading
13 Smoking Nurses and the Knowing Doing Gap
I drive past a hospital every day on my way to work. On a recent trip into the office, I went a new way, driving past the smoking court removed somewhat from the hospital itself. What I saw there shocked … Continue reading
Leading Change: Telling, Selling and Doing
One of the biggest gripes of leaders everywhere is the difficulty of leading change. Leading change is fundamentally about influence; persuading others to engage in the new behaviors en route to driving a new outcome. Setting aside organizational change for … Continue reading
Movie Monday: The Importance of Why
At IncBlot, we are big believers in “why.” For so long, businesses have introduced the “what” and the “how”, neglecting the more powerful questions of “who” and “why.” In the cacophony of branded messages that is our new reality, only … Continue reading
Movie Monday: How To Start A Movement
Never has a shirtless dancing guy had so much to teach you about leadership.
Influence Defined: Empowerment Without Coercion
I get asked to speak on persuasion and influence more than any other topic on which I present. However, one thing that I have noted with interest is that people are almost apologetic about asking for someone to come train … Continue reading
Empathy, Leadership and Oil: The Case of BP
During the Summer of 2010 there was a gaping hole in the Gulf of Mexico that needed to be plugged. I’m speaking of course, of the hole in Tony Hayward’s heart. The BP CEO’s comment that he’d “like his life … Continue reading
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