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A while ago, Roger E. Axtell sent an email to the General Manager of his company in Peru. In the message he wrote, “I need to know the number of people in your factory and the number of people in your office broken down by sex.” The manager dutifully replied: “We have 35 in our factory, 10 in the office …
Like a lot of you, I’ve worked for some big-named companies, and I’ve reported to some powerful leader-type people with fancy titles. However, I’ve learned that there is very little correlation between a person’s title and how much they actually influenced my life. And I’m sure the same is true. Leadership has a lot more to do with influence than …
Everybody in the world asks the same question. All executives, all managers, supervisors and coworkers. Even all spouses, partners and parents ask the same question. So what’s the question? If you don’t know, you’re in trouble. And if you don’t know the answer to the question, you are having a lot more stress, anger, anxiety, frustration, and disappointment than you …
A while ago, I was going to give a presentation in Japan and thought I could simply walk from my hotel to the meeting place. After all, it was a nice day and the meeting place was only a few blocks away. Bad idea. Within a few minutes, I was hopelessly lost and running out of time. My audience was …
