Tag: prepare

  • Preparation: Leadership Idea #43

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    Harley H
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    Preparation – how often have you skipped this because you didn’t plan enough time? Too often leaders think they already know everything and don’t need to prepare. Recently I heard a world-famous motivational speaker say he spends hours preparing for a speech, even one he’s given many times before. Why? Because the more you prepare,…

  • Contingency: Leadership Idea #40

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    Harley H
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    We’d all like things to go perfectly smoothly wouldn’t we, but – it seldom does. So what’s the plan when a colleague doesn’t show up, a task isn’t completed on time or correctly? What if our personal plans don’t work out, and we lose our jobs or our investments have a negative payback? Do we…

  • Effort: Growth Idea #641

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    Harley H
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    Have you ever needed to work with someone that wasn’t putting in much effort? That’s so frustrating, isn’t it? Why is effort so difficult sometimes? And what can we learn about effort? What we may not realize is that effort starts “behind the scene”, invisible, and only when you’re looking at the outputs can you…