Leadership in the Balance
From West Michigan Business Review, July 3, 2008Written by Mary Jo Asmus “Entropy,” a term used in physics and chemistry, is a measure of disorder in a system. To decrease entropy and restore order,...
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Is Kindness a Leadership Competency?
If you had asked me a few years back if I thought kindness was essential to leadership, I may have choked down laughter. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen it listed in a list of essential skills for a...
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Friendship Actually
Schedule regular time with real, “actual” friends. The need to always be “on” at work – with the politics, constant scrutiny, and deference from employees and colleagues can cause leaders lose sight of...
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12 Wishes for Leadership in 2010
Last year, when I had 3 or 4 readers for this blog , I published a Leadership Wish List for 2009. Most of you haven’t seen it. And, most of my wishes remain unfulfilled, but I’m quite patient. So,...
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If you want to change the world, work on being happy
You might be thinking that all the buzz about happiness is a lot of bunk. Yet isn’t it part of the human condition to want to be happy? Can you actually become happy? As a leader, why would being happy...
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On any given workday, you may be overwhelmed and your mind cluttered – things aren’t processing as you prefer. You might be struggling to prioritize what’s most important to get done. That’s not a bad...
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Three enjoyable ways to manage stress
Sometimes even the best leaders do bad things. If I had to name a common culprit that causes those bad behaviors, I’d pin it on chronic stress. Stress in the workplace has become so normalized that it...
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Take the pause that refreshes
For many years in the last century, Coca-Cola had an advertising campaign called “It’s the Pause that Refreshes”. Let’s borrow those words to consider the importance of a pause for your leadership and...
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