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Mar 27 2017

Talent Stars – Don’t Burn Your Shine!

Talent can’t be taught, but it can be awakened!
Wallace Stegner

Talent star. Talent manager. Talent agent. Talent show. Talent source. Today as valued contributors, we must be each. Or your show goes. Goes down the hall. Goes off the floor. To another unit. Or another agency? Or supplier? Or the show goes to someone other than you.

Whatever you think talent is or isn’t – it is measured. If you don’t know how your talent contribution is being measured, you could be in trouble. Big trouble. And performance measurements these days are 360. Definitely not just from above. Not any longer.… Read the rest

Tags: burn, feedback, focus, performance, star, Talent

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Jun 1 2016

How Do You Know, That What Think You Know – Is True?

Posted by Jay Steven Levin

“I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer,
to treat everything as if it were a nail.”
Abraham H. Maslow

Who we are rises above what we say. We act out our inner voices. We all do.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, said, “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”

What we say to ourselves defines us.
We are the sum total of our self-talk.

Our inner conversations either add to who we are or subtract us from being who we can be. Nothing startlingly new here, I admit. But we overlook it everyday.… Read the rest

Tags: Assumptions, feedback, Jay, Know, levin, mirror, Question, Validation

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Feb 9 2016

Secret Traits Of Championship Teams

Posted by General Paul McGillicuddy

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“Nobody wants to hear how rough the water is, just get in the boat and start rowing.”

…At least that’s what my little league coach used to tell us kids. We were the original Bad News Bears, but we ended up in first place anyway.

Since then I’ve been fortunate enough to be part of many, many more outstanding teams and organizations.

They’ve all had these 4 characteristics in common, including my Bad News Bears experience:

1. Great leadership
2. No egos
3. No old guy vs. new guy mentality
4. Honest and Open Feedback

Great Leadership.

Certainly, winning organizations require exceptional leadership.… Read the rest

Tags: characteristics, Cooperation, ego, feedback, General, Leadership, McGillicuddy, teams, Traits

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Dec 1 2015

Tuesday Time Machine: Train, Provide, Give and Empower

Posted by Geno Redmon

From Our Early Files:
Originally Published
30 March 2014

“We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!”
President George W. Bush

All of us remember where we were on 9/11. I had one of the greatest jobs in the world of the Vice Commander of the Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC). For the non Air Force people, the TACC is the air operations center responsible for the planning scheduling and execution of all airlift and tanker operations, 24/7 365. Remembering that Afghanistan is a landlocked country, every bullet fired, bomb dropped, every bean eaten, literally everything needed for the war effort had to be airlifted in.… Read the rest

Tags: 9/11, ability, AMC, bravery, Early Files, empower, expectations, feedback, give, jobs, mobility, provide, redmon, safety, TACC, Throwback, Time Machine, tools, train, trust

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Oct 20 2015

Time Machine Tuesday: Leading Yourself Well, First

Posted by General John Michel

From Our Early Files:
Originally Published
05 March 2014

“It is the management of self that should occupy 50% of our time and the best of our ability.”
Dee Hock

In 2011, our nation was shocked when prominent Pennsylvania State University leaders, including the late legendary football coach Joe Paterno, were accused of ignoring allegations of child sex abuse by the school’s former defensive coordinator almost a decade earlier. In addition to tarnishing a university’s once-sterling reputation, shattering the trust of an entire sport, and prematurely ending the career of a coach with the most victories in collegiate history leaves all of us wondering, “How can something like this happen?”

The sad truth is that their failure didn’t happen overnight.… Read the rest

Tags: committment, Early Files, feedback, kellogg, Leadership, maxwell, michel, paterno, pennsylvania, practice, self, Throwback, Time Machine, warrell

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Mar 20 2015

6 Foundations of Followership

Posted by Chris R Stricklin

Foundation - GeneralLeadership

“It is the [people] behind who make the [person] ahead.”
— Merle Crowell

As military members, we are commonly told our most marketable skill after retirement is leadership. Yet, as you progress through the ranks and attend various military colleges, we always seem to be looking to civilian authors and courses for lessons on leadership. What is the magic dust that makes military leaders great? The answer is simple…followership.

Search your favorite online bookstore for ‘leadership’ and you will find in excess of 22,000 books. In contrast, a search for ‘followership’ will yield a mere 20 literary works. Why the dramatic difference?… Read the rest

Tags: Challenge, Communication, feedback, followership, Foundations, Leadership

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Mar 2 2015

Ask GeneralLeadership

Posted by Matthew T. Fritz

Ask GeneralLeadership You ask, and we listen—and this article is the first in a series to address our primary mission of providing “Leadership Advice from America’s Most Trusted Leaders!”

Justin, a reader from California, wrote us with the following question:

“I will be joining a team that is already formed and will be their Director. It is a team of 15 that is operating off site at a large client’s place of business. Where I have a question is that from everything I’m seeing, the client is difficult to please, and the staff that I’m taking over is less than professional. The VP that I interviewed with noted that they need a strong leader to shape up the current staff or to remake the staff.… Read the rest

Tags: Advice, Ask GeneralLeadership, Consulting, Fan Mail, feedback, Mail Bag, Question, Tough Questions

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Feb 18 2015

How You Value “Value” Determines Your Leadership Value

Posted by Jay Steven Levin

“Strive not to be a success,
but rather to be of value!”
Albert Einstein

Our value as a leader, and how others perceive our value, has much to do with how we value value and how those around us do the same .

Value is a measure of relative worth, merit, or importance. Anything can have value to the degree that it has worth, merit, or importance. The same is true for anything to which we can assign a value, whether it is an object, objective , event, or a person, relationship, situation, business deal, food, furniture or whatever. For example, a chair can have a different value for different purposes.… Read the rest

Tags: extrinsic, feedback, first impressions, intrinsic, levin, objective, relationships, systemic, value

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Sep 17 2014

Climate Assessment Through Feedback

Posted by Matthew T. Fritz

“Feedback is the breakfast of champions!”
Ken Blanchard

Sadly, the following is a true story: I had been tasked to provide a briefing to a leader whose reputation had preceded him by a wide margin. This particular leader was extremely powerful in his area of performance, and was widely known for a brash personality. When my colleague and I had been appointed to share our briefing with this leader, the enmity he was rumored to feel towards our branch of the organization was at an all time high. Contrary to what you might expect I looked forward to this brief like no other.… Read the rest

Tags: assessment, climate, feedback, fritz

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Jun 16 2014

Five Insights from Our 2014 Reader Survey

Posted by Matthew T. Fritz

At the end of May, we launched the 2014 Reader Survey. This is the first time we have done this exercise, and we have benefited enormously from your participation. Ultimately, we think it also benefits you, because it helps us improve our blog and our services.

We feel it is important to summarize and share our results. We also want to share the conclusions we have come to because of the data. A very large portion of you has completed the survey so far, and we are always interested in hearing your opinions and feedback.

If we summarized the results into a typical “reader profile,” it would look like this: Our typical reader is a male (66%) between the ages of 30–59 (66%).… Read the rest

Tags: 2014, content, culture, email, experiences, feedback, reader, subscriber, survey

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Mar 30 2014

Train, Provide, Give and Empower…and Laugh When You Can!

Posted by Geno Redmon

“We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail!”
President George W. Bush

All of us remember where we were on 9/11. I had one of the greatest jobs in the world of the Vice Commander of the Tanker Airlift Control Center (TACC). For the non Air Force people, the TACC is the air operations center responsible for the planning scheduling and execution of all airlift and tanker operations, 24/7 365. Remembering that Afghanistan is a landlocked country, every bullet fired, bomb dropped, every bean eaten, literally everything needed for the war effort had to be airlifted in.… Read the rest

Tags: 9/11, ability, AMC, bravery, empower, expectations, feedback, give, jobs, mobility, provide, redmon, safety, TACC, tools, train, trust

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Jun 24 2013

The 3 Simple Rules of Effective Feedback

Posted by General Kathleen Gainey

“Effective Feedback is the breakfast of champions.”
Ken Blanchard

I remember the moment when I realized that I had failed to provide effective feedback to a junior officer on my staff as I gave her unexpected feedback on her performance. This young Captain sat before me in shock when I gave her a less than glowing evaluation. She said, “You never told me that I was not a top performer.” As we continued the conversation and I gave her examples of where her performance was not up to par, it was clear to me that she didn’t know that she wasn’t the superstar performer she thought she was.… Read the rest

Tags: feedback, Leadership

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