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Who Finishes Strong
Who Finishes Strong? Leaders with Visions to Fulfill In 2005, 97-year old Joseph Rotblat penned an op-ed to the New York Times pleading with readers to oppose the use of nuclear weapons. His words carried weight since, as a young man, Rotblat had helped the U.S. Government to build the first atomic bomb. In the…
Read MoreFor leaders: balancing care with candor
Image courtesy of photobucket Every person makes mistakes at some time in the workplace. Everyone needs someone to come alongside them to help them improve. If you’re a leader, it is your responsibility and your privilege to be the person who helps them get better. That often begins with a candid conversation. But before you…
Read MoreStarting: The Great Separator
Do you want to be a success? As you know, many obstacles can keep even a highly-motivated person from succeeding. But today I want to talk about the ONLY obstacle that will ALWAYS keep us from success: Not starting. Starting is the Great Separator. It separates… The doers from the do-nots, The haves from the…
Read MoreEQUIP: Because global needs need leaders
Hello from Pebble Beach, California! There are certainly worse places to spend a week in October, but Pebble Beach is especially significant to me right now because of the EQUIP Leadership Summit and Golf Classic. You may have seen that EQUIP is the non-profit organization that I founded over a decade ago. EQUIP specializes in…
Read MoreChange your thinking, change your life?
Can changing your thinking really change your life? Consider this: I’ve studied successful people for forty years, and though the diversity you find among them is astounding, I believe they are all alike in one way: how they think! That is the one thing that separates the successful from the unsuccessful. The good news is that…
Read MoreWhat I've got lined up for Fall, 2010!
Welcome to my blog’s new look! I’m really pleased with the simplicity of the design, and I hope it serves you, the reader, well. You may notice some additions to Upcoming Events in the sidebar to the right. —–> Let me highlight a few of the events where I’ll be speaking this fall: September 16-18,…
Read MoreBuild your relationships on the solid ground of TRUST
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.”~George MacDonald In the Law of Solid Ground in my 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, I asserted that trust is the foundation of leadership. But that’s not all. In reality, trust is necessary in ALL good relationships. Good marriages, business relationships, and friendships all require…
Read MoreThe power of good communication
Caesarea, Israel. Teaching about Paul the Apostle’s audience with King Herod Agrippa in that very city. But Agrippa did answer: “Keep this up much longer and you’ll make a Christian out of me!” (Acts 26:28, The Message) This week I’m in Israel, touring with Christ Fellowship Church (Palm Beach, Florida). And just a few days…
Read MoreDo you have a personal plan for growth?
On Twitter and Facebook on Sunday, I quoted my friend Paul Meyer, mentioning that he was the person who helped me create my first personal growth plan. In the hours afterward, I received dozens of requests, all asking the same thing: “How do you create a personal growth plan?” The answer to that takes more…
Read MoreConnectors Do the Difficult Work of Keeping It Simple
Chapter 7 Synopsis Connectors Do the Difficult Work of Keeping It Simple A few years ago, I was being interviewed on a television talk show. The host held up a couple of my books and said, “John, I’ve read several of your books and they are all so simple.” His tone of voice, body language,…
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