If we did it for them…
There are many ways to learn, and part of the path to personal and professional excellence is not only making the commitment and focusing on self-development, but also discovering and creating learning opportunities. While we can create many of our learning opportunities on our own, I also believe that learning opportunities perfectly suited for where [...]
Missing leadership qualities
I’ve been musing on Leadership lately, specifically Positive Leadership, and I’ve come up with my personal short-list of leadership qualities I find in short supply these days.
Honesty
Whether it’s employee appraisals or what happened to the stock price, honesty seems to be missing from many of our leaders these days. And I’m not talking about the [...]
The DCO Reader – 2009.4
The web is a vast repository of opinions, commentary, distractions, and occasionally, wisdom. The DCO Reader is an occasional feature highlighting and discussing some of the articles I’ve recently found that have inspired or challenged me. While the majority of articles I will discuss here align with the core topics of Entrepreneurship, Personal Excellence and [...]
For your consideration…
Last week I wrote a little piece linking “being nice” to personal excellence. I also made a (very) short pitch that the relationship was not only more than casual, but implied there were direct links to superior performance possible with this simple attitude adjustment. I purposely kept the article high on personal observation and low [...]
A Strong Foundation for Personal Excellence
(By the way – this one works for Leadership too!)
We’ve been talking almost exclusively lately on entrepreneurial topics, and in fact, I’ve got the updated Entrepreneurial Qualities survey just about ready to go.
Before we dive headlong back into a new survey with it’s results and commentary, I want to take a side trip into Personal [...]
Send the right message
FedEx, the company trusted by millions of people to deliver their Christmas presents to loved ones, recently announced some belt-tightening initiatives. That’s the real tragedy of the economic downturn, that even great companies get affected negatively. You get most things right, avoid the icebergs and get the ship headed in the right direction, and out [...]
DCO Weekend Reader – 12/5/08
The web is a vast repository of opinions, commentary and occasionally, wisdom. Here’s a selection of the best articles I read over the past week.
If you would like to recommend an article, blog or book, please leave a comment with your suggestion. Weekend Reader is a regular feature here at DCO, and you can read [...]
DCO Weekend Reader – 11/21/08
The web is a vast repository of opinions, commentary and occasionally, wisdom. Here’s a selection of the best articles I read over the past week.
If you would like to recommend an article, blog or book, please leave a comment with your suggestion. Weekend Reader is a regular feature here at DCO, and you can read [...]
DCO Weekend Reader – 11/14/08
The web is a vast repository of opinions, commentary and occasionally, wisdom. Here’s a selection of the best articles I read over the past week.
If you would like to recommend an article, blog or book, please leave a comment with your suggestion. Weekend Reader is a regular feature here at DCO, and you can read [...]
DCO Weekend Reader – 11/7/08
The web is a vast repository of opinions, commentary and occasionally, wisdom. Here’s a selection of the best articles I read over the past week.
If you would like to recommend an article, blog or book, please leave a comment with your suggestion. Weekend Reader is a regular feature here at DCO, and you can read [...]
