How to Make Your 2020 Vision 20/20
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How to Make Your 2020 Vision 20/20

You may have seen articles and blogs this year connecting your personal or company vision for the year 2020 with having 20/20 eyesight. Yes, it’s cute. But it actually goes much deeper than the play on words (or numbers in this case). Here’s why… 20/20 vision means you can see clearly. And your 2020 vision…

How Executive Leaders Stop to Create Growth
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How Executive Leaders Stop to Create Growth

As we embark toward achieving our vision, organizations sometimes continue to do things that either don’t work or don’t support the vision. When someone questions “why do we do that?” The answer is often “we’ve always done it this way.” Sometimes the person answering the question really doesn’t understand the purpose, which means they’re missing information. However, most often, the truth is that…

Successful Leaders Reinforce the Vision
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Successful Leaders Reinforce the Vision

To keep your team moving in the right direction, you need to reinforce the vision. That doesn’t mean you have to recite it like a parrot; it means getting your team engaged and keeping them engaged. Talk about possibilities in the context of your vision. Celebrate accomplishments in the context of your vision. Have fun…

Setting Priorities is Key to Leadership Success
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Setting Priorities is Key to Leadership Success

Distractions can tempt us every day. Other people have their own agendas for our time and attention. We might have the best intentions of working on our priorities, but other things get in the way. We may even become so ambitious that we create a long list of priorities, which means we don’t really have…

How Well Do You Know Yourself?
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How Well Do You Know Yourself?

Great leaders understand who they are and where they stand. They also know that they don’t know everything. You may think you already know yourself. But real knowing is understanding that we don’t know everything. Think about the leaders you admire who have achieved great things and made a difference in some way. To step…

When Executives Value Their Time,  Others Will Too
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When Executives Value Their Time,
Others Will Too

If you don’t value your time, no one else will value it either. As a leader, it’s important to be accessible, but you also need others to respect your time. When you have set your priorities, the majority of your time should be spent on them. Of course, unexpected things come up that require our…