Excuses won’t help you, reasons will.
By Jack Dunigan
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June 16, 2015
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." George Washington Carver Excuses won’t help...
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What you see is what you get – measuring your response to others
By Jack Dunigan
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June 12, 2015
What good is it? Often the mantra of the obsessively practical or the hopelessly cynical, a “what good is it?”...
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The Might as Wells – Letting one thing lead to too many others.
By Jack Dunigan
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June 5, 2015
I call it sequences, that annoying way of letting a simple task become far more complex. Even Murphy and his...
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The Most Powerful Question a Leader Can Ask…and it’s only one word
By Jack Dunigan
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May 19, 2015
Businesses and organizations tend to generate lots of paper and digital directives. Over time (usually a very short amount of...
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Why leadership training programs fall short
By Jack Dunigan
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May 7, 2015
The American Society for Training and Development reports that U.S. businesses spend a whopping $170 billion on leadership training programs. ...
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Life in the ditches – finding balance in the five equities of life
By Jack Dunigan
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May 4, 2015
They were a decent and colorful pair. He a retired farmer. She his wife of many decades. We became friends...
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Stuck in 1st gear – is the impediment to progress you?
By Jack Dunigan
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April 30, 2015
It happens easily enough and usually innocently enough. You start a business or organization then endure what is often a...
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4 things to consider before dismissing that suggestion or idea
By Jack Dunigan
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April 27, 2015
If it didn’t work then, will it work now? Elephant syndrome is what I call it, the tendency to never...
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Value equals worth minus cost
By Jack Dunigan
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April 21, 2015
What is the real value of those who work for your company? For that matter, what is your real value?...
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Livescribe Sky – an easy to use pen for taking digital notes
By Jack Dunigan
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April 16, 2015
Several times a week I sit in meetings with clients, board members, and team leaders. In each of them things...
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The 15 diseases of leadership according to Pope Francis
By Jack Dunigan
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April 15, 2015
From the Harvard Business Review, April 14, 2015, by Gary Hamel Pope Francis has made no secret of his intention...
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Are you building digital barriers?
By Jack Dunigan
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April 13, 2015
One company embarked on a program to update the way it interacted with incoming customer requests. As a consulting firm,...
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The parable of the ugly chair – How to handle a sticky situation without offending anyone.
By Jack Dunigan
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April 9, 2015
Once upon a time in a place far away there was a man who made a journey to see his...
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Leadership Skills – 12 tips for new managers – a free Slideshare
By Jack Dunigan
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April 7, 2015
Leadership skills (Twelve Tips for New Managers) from Austin Nway Aye Maung
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Leadership is not about who you are but about where you’re going
By Jack Dunigan
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April 6, 2015
Self-importance seems to go hand in hand with titles. Ascending to a position of power and importance can readily go...
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Core values of top tech firms – an infographic
By Jack Dunigan
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April 2, 2015
Thanks to MidAmerica Nazarene University - www.mnu.edu/graduate
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Leading from behind, what it is…and what it is not
By Jack Dunigan
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March 30, 2015
This concept of leading from behind appears in the news fairly often. The term and the concept have found their...
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5 Tenets of faith for leaders…and they have nothing to do with religion
By Jack Dunigan
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March 24, 2015
We all believe things and we believe in things. Our trust rests upon and resides within a certain set of...
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Respect – 4 things you should Never do and 1 thing you should
By Jack Dunigan
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March 20, 2015
When I was last in Africa, I found a book in the library of the home in which I resided...
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Employee Recognition – a free infographic
By Jack Dunigan
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March 19, 2015
I found this infographic from the TerryBerry Company. Right click to download.
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