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It’s time to put your trusty CRM software to work; to let it earn its keep. You're about to blast an email out to several thousand potential customers. First you run a search of people and companies you want to target. You soon realize something’s wrong when your list is far smaller than anticipated. A quick check reveals many profiles have not been filled in or are missing email addresses. Further inspection shows numerous records are incorrect; others are riddled with typos. And that’s just for starters. With a sinking feeling, you realize this email blast isn’t going
You may never have thought of some of these things as being that bad, but believe me, they are. And none of them are caused by other people, including your competitors. If these problems affect your life, the blame lies squarely on your shoulders. So if you want to maintain your integrity as a leader, it's critical that you recognize them as leadership landmines and take steps to avoid them. Click here
At times all of us need a bit of inspiration to add to our day. When I first read this article, I had started my own home based business and was in a bit of a slump. This inspirational story was exactly what helped spring me into action and keep on going.I loved it so much that I thought why not share with other people in hopes it would have the same type of effect it had on me.THE DAFFODIL PRINCIPLESeveral times my daughter had telephoned to say, "Mother, you must come see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a
Successful leaders- people with great business acumen, great teams and great vision- are moving along, growing their companies when, all of a sudden, they fall flat on their faces.
Their businesses start hemorrhaging money. Their best people start jumping ship. Their families start falling apart.
And they sit at their desks with their heads in their hands wondering, "How did this happen?"
I'll tell you how it happened. They were blown up by a problem they never saw coming.
I call these problems "leadership landmines" because unless you're consciously looking for them, they're nearly impossible to spot. They're buried in the grind of daily life, quietly waiting to injure and perhaps even destroy the next unsuspecting leader who steps on them.
Before I go on, I need to tell you that what I'm writing is based on personal experience. At one time or another in my career, I've stepped on landmines like the ones I'm about to describe. In some cases, I even have the scars to prove it.
If you're moving and active, you're bound to have a painful encounter with a landmine every now and then. It's just the nature of leadership. But there are certain landmines that will absolutely wipe you out if you're not careful, and those are the ones that really deserve our attention.
A friend once told me, "If I could kick the person most responsible for most of my problems, I would not be able to sit down for a week." From my own life and the lives of the leaders I've observed over the years, I have found that to be absolutely right. Most leaders I watch don't need to worry about the competition beating them. Instead, they need to be concerned about doing something stupid in the race and disqualifying themselves.
Leadership landmines come in many forms. Spending too much time basking in today's success without looking towards the future will sabotage your leadership. So will failing to make tough calls, advancing in position but not personal growth, and betraying the trust of your people.
You may never have thought of some of these things as being that bad, but believe me, they are. And none of them are caused by other people, including your competitors. If these problems affect your life, the blame lies squarely on your shoulders. So if you want to maintain your integrity as a leader, it's critical that you recognize them as leadership landmines and take steps to avoid them. Click here
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I call these problems "leadership landmines" because unless you're consciously looking for them, they're nearly impossible to spot. They're buried in the grind of daily life, quietly waiting to injure and perhaps even destroy the next unsuspecting leader who steps on them.
Before I go on, I need to tell you that what I'm writing is based on personal experience. At one time or another in my career, I've stepped on landmines like the ones I'm about to describe. In some cases, I even have the scars to prove it.
If you're moving and active, you're bound to have a painful encounter with a landmine every now and then. It's just the nature of leadership. But there are certain landmines that will absolutely wipe you out if you're not careful, and those are the ones that really deserve our attention.
A friend once told me, "If I could kick the person most responsible for most of my problems, I would not be able to sit down for a week." From my own life and the lives of the leaders I've observed over the years, I have found that to be absolutely right. Most leaders I watch don't need to worry about the competition beating them. Instead, they need to be concerned about doing something stupid in the race and disqualifying themselves.
Leadership landmines come in many forms. Spending too much time basking in today's success without looking towards the future will sabotage your leadership. So will failing to make tough calls, advancing in position but not personal growth, and betraying the trust of your people.
You may never have thought of some of these things as being that bad, but believe me, they are. And none of them are caused by other people, including your competitors. If these problems affect your life, the blame lies squarely on your shoulders. So if you want to maintain your integrity as a leader, it's critical that you recognize them as leadership landmines and take steps to avoid them. Click here
In many small and medium sized businesses there is little or no strategy to improve the fortunes of the organization. This may happen in good times as well as bad and may result from a belief that: If it is not broke don’t fix itThe business is in a niche market with no competitionNo skills are available in-house to make proposed changesThe business owner is retiring – it will be someone else’s problem And so onThe lack of a desire to continually develop and improve the business encourages a reactionary mode within t
If you're moving and active, you're bound to have a painful encounter with a landmine every now and then. It's just the nature of leadership. But there are certain landmines that will absolutely wipe you out if you're not careful, and those are the ones that really deserve our attention.
A friend once told me, "If I could kick the person most responsible for most of my problems, I would not be able to sit down for a week." From my own life and the lives of the leaders I've observed over the years, I have found that to be absolutely right. Most leaders I watch don't need to worry about the competition beating them. Instead, they need to be concerned about doing something stupid in the race and disqualifying themselves.
Leadership landmines come in many forms. Spending too much time basking in today's success without looking towards the future will sabotage your leadership. So will failing to make tough calls, advancing in position but not personal growth, and betraying the trust of your people.
You may never have thought of some of these things as being that bad, but believe me, they are. And none of them are caused by other people, including your competitors. If these problems affect your life, the blame lies squarely on your shoulders. So if you want to maintain your integrity as a leader, it's critical that you recognize them as leadership landmines and take steps to avoid them. Click here
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Leadership landmines come in many forms. Spending too much time basking in today's success without looking towards the future will sabotage your leadership. So will failing to make tough calls, advancing in position but not personal growth, and betraying the trust of your people.
You may never have thought of some of these things as being that bad, but believe me, they are. And none of them are caused by other people, including your competitors. If these problems affect your life, the blame lies squarely on your shoulders. So if you want to maintain your integrity as a leader, it's critical that you recognize them as leadership landmines and take steps to avoid them. Click here
It’s mid-week and we’ve been going over your directory marketing. Okay, so you have a pretty good Yellow Page ad, but is “pretty good” enough? You have so many parts of the ad to work well, where do you begin to make it better? Assuming that you have a solid headline and sub-head, the next place the reader will turn is to the picture or photograph. If you are an emergency service firm like a plumber or electrician, do you have a picture of your truck in the ad? Does it have your logo on the side and is it nice and shiny? It is? Then shame on you! Who cares that you have
You may never have thought of some of these things as being that bad, but believe me, they are. And none of them are caused by other people, including your competitors. If these problems affect your life, the blame lies squarely on your shoulders. So if you want to maintain your integrity as a leader, it's critical that you recognize them as leadership landmines and take steps to avoid them. Click here to learn more about Sandi...
Another deadly landmine that many leaders step on is the propensity to lose touch with the people they're leading. When leaders become isolated- due to success, failure or even extreme busyness- they become ineffective.
It's the natural human response to withdraw during such times, but if you want to avoid this landmine, you can't do that. Get down off the mountain. Walk slowly through the crowd. Listen to your people and actually hear what they're saying. Sense what they're feeling. Hang out with them.
Taking these actions will definitely enable you stay in touch with your people. The following steps also will help.
- Value people.
They're the only appreciable assets that you have, so don't go around thinking that they're replaceable or not necessary. You can't do your job without other people.
- Avoid positional thinking.
Leadership has nothing to do with your position or title; it has everything to do with your influence. If you want to keep from losing touch with your people, you have to adopt the mindset that the folks around you work with you, not for you. Titles and positions don't matter. If you're good at what you do, you don't need them, and if you're not so good, they won't help. So stop thinking of yourself in terms of your position or title.
- Love the people you lead.
This is something I've said for many years: People really do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.
- Understand that you're in the people business.
You might think you're in banking, real estate, manufacturing or publishing. But, as my friend Ken Blanchard is fond of saying, no matter what you do, you're actually in the people business. Your clients are people, your suppliers are people, and your employees are people. Make no mistake- you are in the people business.
- Understand the "Law of Significance."
This law says,
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