ARTICLES BY DR. ANDY NEILLIE, CSP
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The Leader as Force Multiplier
Two things to keep in mind if you want to be a Force Multiplier.
I got to spend an unexpected 90 minutes with two of our managers earlier this week. I had a client lunch cancel; they both were on-sight with open schedules. We compared calendars and realized all three of us had unexpected openings available. We did a “mini-audit” together by walking the facility and discussing how things were going, then we grabbed notebooks and sat at a table for 45 minutes.
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Read MoreLeader: How do you need to change?
“We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.” – Winston Churchill
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Read MoreI find myself angry. A lot. Four things to keep in mind if you are like me.
I find myself angry a lot. Not a boiling-over, in-your-face profanity-laced outburst type of anger. It is more of a low-grade fever: plans aren’t going the way they are supposed to go; things break, franchise budgets are missed, plans go awry, team members do mindless things, etc. etc. etc.
Leader, what do you do with your anger?
One of my favorite leadership books is Leadership Prayers by Richard Kriegbaum.
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Read MoreBop-The-Leadership-Gopher
We were at one of those local indoor gaming centers. You order bad pizza and free coke refills for the evening, and you and the rest of your party purchase game tickets to the multitude of arcade games they have at their facility. This is not my idea of a great party, nevertheless, the team had voted, and here we were.
I wandered from game to game, watching our team members have fun playing mindless competitions.
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