From the category archives:

Leadership

Effective Meetings: The Participant’s Responsibility

Productivity

There is an epidemic running rampant through Corporate America. The disease is called “Ineffective Meetings.”  I’ve been researching the topic of how to have more effective meetings, but all my research has found the leader’s point of view on the topic. I want to discuss it from the participant’s point of view, with the understanding [...]

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On Accountability

Leadership

I wrote a post on the importance of having and how to choose people for your inner circle.  Accountability is a benefit of having an inner circle.  What is accountability? There’s personal accountability which is accepting responsibility for your life and decisions you make. Michael Hyatt wrote an excellent post on Leadership and Accountability in [...]

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5 Mistakes Women Make when Leading Men

Feminine Leadership

Feminine Leadership Part 3 You can read part 1 and part 2 before continuing. 1. Attempt to build a working relationship with men as if they are women Men do compartmentalize their lives. It all runs together for us. Unless he’s willing to discuss personal stuff, don’t do it expecting him to be drawn in. [...]

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Feminine Leadership Part 2

Feminine Leadership

What is Femininity?

Thanks to the media, the word “femininity” conjures up the image of a woman who faints on cue, lace gloves, bashful looks, high heels and well controlled laughs. True femininity is inner strength. Michelle McKinney-Hammond has the best definition of femininity:

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Feminine Leadership Part 1

Feminine Leadership

Why Feminine Leadership? 10 years ago I developed a workshop entitled “The 7 Irrefutable Laws of Feminine Leadership” (yes, the title was influenced from John Maxwell’s book “21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”).  I came up with this workshop after reading this book because there were certain things he never discussed that I encountered simply because [...]

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Do you have a Servant’s Heart or a Servant’s Mentality?

Servant Leadership

In Corporate America servant leadership has become popular form of leadership. I believe it’s only true leadership form. I see people struggle with the term servant, especially those of us in the black community. Servant and slave are terms that don’t sit well with us. Although we will sit in church on Sundays and hear [...]

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