The Recipe for Respect
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Mar 14, 2014
Getting Along with Others to Earn Respect
Getting Along with Others Earns Respect In the previous two posts, I discussed the first two ingredients for earning leadership respect: consistency and making quality decisions. Assuming you master the art of consistency and quality decision making, I will admit that you will be well on your way to earning the respect of virtually everyone […]
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Mar 13, 2014
Making Quality Decisions Will Earn You Respect
Hopefully we can agree on the importance of consistency for leaders as an ingredient for earning respect. As I mentioned in the previous post, consistency alone will not win the day. Someone could be consistently wrong, consistently malicious or even consistently absent. Such consistent behavior might allow us to predict the future and prepare accordingly; […]
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Mar 12, 2014
How To Earn Respect | Part 1
How to Earn Respect I love biscuits made from scratch. Luckily I grew up around excellent scratch biscuit makers. Admittedly, the ingredients my mother and grandmother relied on were basic staples found in virtually every kitchen: flour, salt, baking powder, milk and shortening. However the artistry resided not in the ingredients, but in the skillful […]
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Jan 23, 2014
Building a Reputation
In a recent post, I shared four actions professionals practice when building a reputation. I included a few considerations for each of those actions. As a follow up to those ideas, in this latest Leaders Ought to Know post I offer four additional practices that will build on that groundwork. Additional Resources Four Ways to Build […]
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May 28, 2013
The Leadership Spotlight
I was standing before a group of managers and supervisors with whom I’d been meeting monthly for exactly one year. Each month we had explored those things “leaders ought to know,” but which too often get overlooked, underestimated or disregarded completely. On this, our 12th session together, I began our group discussion with a simple […]
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Feb 28, 2013
Leadership Respect
Leaders should be very interested in the answer to this question: What would your followers say about your leadership abilities? Would they use the word respect? Read my latest Leaders Ought to Know blog for a discussion of practical ways leaders can earn the respect of their followers. Additional Resources Define Leadership [Blog Post] In […]
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