Align4Profit Leadership Development Blog
Leadership development may be the most important activity in any organization. In my quest to helping men and women become more and more effective leaders, I share weekly articles that are a quick read with a promise to give your leaders actionable tips they can implement immediately.
It’s my goal to share my experience together with candid and pragmatic advice founded on deep research.
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April 13, 2015
First the bad news. We—that’s you, I, and most people—sit on average 9.3 hours a day. That’s more than we sleep, about 7.7 hours a day. We have to sleep, […]
April 6, 2015
Belonging to a group, a team, or an organization doesn’t have to mean conforming. You can be both unique and be a team player. In fact, that’s what you as […]
March 30, 2015
Introverts have always been with us, even though the term was not popularized until the 20th century by Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung. His ideas on extroversion and introversion […]
March 23, 2015
Future Leaders. What’s in Store. (What’s a store?) I hesitate to warn leaders about change, because change is, always has been, and always will be the rule. So what’s new? […]
March 16, 2015
People can and will change their behavior when and only when they convince themselves that the change will benefit them. Change must take place where it counts—deep in the structure […]
March 9, 2015
The word hell comes to us through the Anglo-Saxon roots of English and from the Proto-Indo-European word kel, which means to conceal or cover up. If you’ve ever concealed anything […]
March 2, 2015
Among the 25 million meetings that take place in the US every day, 92 percent of the participants engage in some form multitasking such as texting, checking emails, or eating. […]
February 23, 2015
The Imitation Game and Leadership Intimacy Alan Turing was a genius. Known as the father of computer science, he gave the world the fundamental concepts required to invent and build […]
February 16, 2015
Leaders have to delegate. They decide who does what work and how much. In a competitive marketplace, success goes to those who produce most efficiently. You want your teams to […]
February 9, 2015
Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric from 1981 to 2001 is known for driving performance. One of the most praised corporate leaders in the world, Welch increased […]
February 2, 2015
How many times have you seen an interview in which a movie star, a sports hero, or a hugely successful person sums up their passion for what they do with, […]
January 26, 2015
The question is often asked, Why do so many leadership development initiatives fail? The answer involves three more questions. What? So what? and Now What? I’ve never heard of leadership […]
January 19, 2015
Leadership Intimacy: Give the Man a Fish Already! Rather than apply one kind of solution to all employees in need of help, Leadership Intimacy requires you to address the individual […]
January 12, 2015
Companies that actively make work meaningful within their organizations can significantly enhance workplace performance and engagement. So say a team of researchers, Susie Cranston and Scott Keller, who have studied […]
January 5, 2015
In the early days of the Internet, someone described the experience of dealing with all the newly available information as trying to drink water from a fire hose. And those […]
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