Can being better followers make us better leaders? Focusing on following may seem an odd way to tackle the challenges of leading, but there’s a power in this approach we can easily overlook. There’s a danger in ignoring it, too.  That was a lesson I learned the hard way deep in the dry, burning pine […]

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“In any leadership interview, they are going to ask about your experience.  What if you don’t have any?” Everyone has to start somewhere.  Moving up in the organizational hierarchy often involves taking on a formal leadership role.  But if you haven’t had one before, how do you respond when they ask you about your leadership […]

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Getting our leadership message across to the team can be a challenge. But as leaders, we can forget that by virtue of our position, we are up on a stage. And like the stage occupied by actors and musicians, there are some great tools available to us, if we’re smart about how we use them. […]

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“If you’re a leader, you don’t push wet spaghetti, you pull it.” – Bill Mauldin Bill Mauldin was a famous cartoonist for Stars and Stripes, the newspaper widely read by American GIs during World War II. It’s easy to get his metaphor about leading spaghetti, and it makes sense, sort of.  But since Bill was […]

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