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Leadership Articles
You Can't Fake Real Authenticity
With everyone hopping on the authenticity bandwagon, we have learned how to fake being authentic. So read about what it takes to be truly authentic.
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Inspired or Expired: Countering the Gravitational Pull of Mediocrity
Six ways to counter the effects of the pull toward mediocrity and help you discover a source of inspiration.
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Happiness: A Key To Success
When you are happier, your success rates increase, so here are some strategies for living a happier life.
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It's All About Connection
Life depends on connections, and the quality of your life depends on the quality of your connections.
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Mentor Leaders Reflections On School Teachers
How is it that some teachers are merely teachers, but others are mentor-leaders?
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A Leader’s Legacy: Planting Seeds
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
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Bridges of Trust: Making Accountability Authentic
Accountability, when understood and applied effectively, will transform your organization, your work, and your life.
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Making Accountability Authentic: Getting a Grip on Results
Accountability is a deep and sustaining way to renew organizations with a promise and a commitment to what matters most, and to bring the very best you have to offer to whatever you do.
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Building Bridges of Trust: Your Most Important Priority
Trust makes everything happen in organizations.
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Building a Culture by Design
Ten Steps To Building An Aligned Culture
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Succeeding at Succession: the Ultimate Test of Success
Succeeding at succession is the ultimate test of success in your organization.
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From Performance Management To Success Management. A New View Of An Old System
Today's workplace requires success management: creating the conditions that ensure both results and passion.
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Employee Engagement: Lessons from a Father
Six lessons about engagement derived from my father's wisdom.
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Resolving Workplace Conflicts – the Authentic Way
Differences are necessary in any relationship, team, or organization. The challenge is how to make conflicts productive.
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Employee Engagement Surveys
Reading your employee engagement surveys is like reading a newspaper or watching the news. It's interesting, there’s an element of truth in them, but it's not the whole picture.
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Power of Culture
The future success of your organization hinges on your capacity to build a strong, aligned culture. Viewed all-too often in the past as an “HR project”, culture must now be your leadership team’s top priority.
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Service Culture
A person’s true wealth is what we give to others. The wealth of a culture is no different. A great culture is defined by its capacity to bring value to all its stakeholders.
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Work Life Balance
We talk about work-life “balance” these days as if it is something to be “achieved” like running a marathon, making a sale or accomplishing a goal.
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Accountability In An Age Of Consumerism: Choosing Service Over Self-Interest
Our consumer culture contributes to a sense of entitlement in our workplaces – we “deserve” a good boss, a healthy environment, a large pay cheque – without accepting the accompanying responsibilities. We expect good governance from our politicians but don’t believe we have personal accountability in return. Has this attitude brought us, as a society, more happiness and inner peace?
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The First Condition Of Employee Engagement: Engagement
Before you can engage people you have to be engaged with them. Connection – or reconnection if you have been detached - is a prerequisite to engagement.
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Rest In Your Life The Rest Of Your Life: Lessons From A Track Coach
Summer months are a good time to reflect on the meaning of rest in our lives and work. Continuous 60 to 80 hour weeks with our laptops and constant accessibility to email and social networking is simply not sustainable for success and to stay fresh and rejuvenated for the long haul. Here are three simple strategies to find rest during the summer – and for the rest of your life.
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From Performance Management To Success Management: A New View Of An Old System
Performance management systems are commonly used to legislate accountability in the workplace. But if we want to build a truly accountable culture, we must look beyond performance management to success management.
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The New Busy: From Stressful to Strategic
It’s no longer about merely working hard. Burnout will diminish the quality of your work and the value you bring to others. Being strategic is the new ethical responsibility.
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It's Not Greener on The Other Side of the Fence It's Greener Where You Water It.
Before you fire someone or exit a relationship that is causing you grief, here are six strategies for sustaining your passion, your value and your focus....
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Authentic Leadership and Integrity
With integrity comes a guarantee, the guarantee of success beyond success: the inner sense of peace, self-respect and credibility that comes from acting in full alignment of one's values.
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Finding the Touch in an Internet World
The Little Things Are The Big Things
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Breathing New Life Into Your Job and Your Life
Inspiration Isn’t What You Get From Work; It’s What you Bring To Work
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Leadership — The Authentic Way: The Top Eight Current Workplace Issues
There is no dearth of workplace challenges facing leaders and employees in our current economic reality. Here are the top eight workplace issues currently facing organizations according to David Irvine.
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Authentic Leadership: Ten Strategies That Ensure A Culture Of Greatness
David Irvine has dedicated his life to inspiring and guiding leaders to build cultures that unleash greatness by deepening the authentic presence of leaders at every level. Learn 10 practical strategies that you can begin implementing today to make this happen.
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The Authentic Leader And The Experience Economy: Creating A Space For Greatness
Learn what the “experience economy” has to teach us about building a culture of greatness.
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Leadership In Uncertain Times: Six Key Strategies
Discover how an uncertain economic environment can help you build a culture of greatness.
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Deep Accountability: The Power Of Agreement
Genuine accountable leadership reaches beyond financial results. It creates cultures that make work meaningful. It engages people and renews vitality. It builds deep, sustainable organizations.
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Creating Authentic, Engaged Cultures: Lessons From A Swan
Discover how connecting with the essential waters in your life – discovering your authentic self — will change everything in your culture.
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Nine Tips For Becoming Real: The Journey to Authenticity
Becoming a great leader means becoming more of who we are. It is that simple, and it is that difficult. Start with some practical strategies for finding and expressing your authentic self.
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Becoming Real: Knowing Your Worth In A World of Conformity
Learn more strategies for connecting with and expressing your authentic self, your most vital resource in an uncertain world.
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Inspired Living or Living Inspired?
Reflect on what it means to live an inspired life, and how inspiration is the key to influence.
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Getting to the Heart of Business Families: Six Keys to Working Successfully with the Ones You Love
Learn six key areas vital for building a cohesive, sustaining, respectful and fulfilling business family.
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Simple Living In A Complex World: Balancing Life’s Achievements
The key to living simply is the ability to connect with ourselves and with others, and then to integrate those connections with our achievements in the world. Although integrating achievements and connections remains vital to the journey, those who live simply in today’s complex work have also discovered contentment, learning to live gracefully.
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The Real Side of Mothers
This is a reflective article on the value of mothers in our society and the vital role they play in developing authentic human beings.
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Depression and Authenticity: A Voice From The Soul
Shift your perception of depression by understanding its role in guiding us to our authentic self.
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The Personal Balance Inventory: A Personal Assessment
What is the difference between where you are in life and where you want to be? Complete this simple Personal Balance Inventory™ to help you determine your real needs, establish your priorities and set your direction.
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