For many, the path to leadership seems like a complicated path of personal and professional decisions that no one could possibly anticipate. Even the unlikeliest of leaders has often walked through some tough things, bringing along a series of life lessons that eventually led to a degree of success. But, when it comes to...
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Every leader and manager in Alabama faces similar challenges. This is the time of year that sets the tone for the rest of 2012. Four ingredients of focus and commitment will help create the success that the organization must have to grow. Results: While many in leadership make accurate decisions and solve problems, it...
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Some leaders are just better than others. And the organizations they represent reflect the quality of leadership in every aspect. When we look at competencies, those attributes and skills that make leaders rise above others, we can look at Dale Carnegie himself and how he approached his career from a work perspective. Through the...
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Dale Carnegie identified the number one way to attain a life of peace and happiness as being yourself in all your dealings. Too often, we try to emulate those around us in an attempt to fit in socially or with a specific group. But if it takes changing the essence of who we are...
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You would think that leadership and management are two different roles that people with authority in organizations use as they see fit. The fact of the matter is that it is very tough at times to separate these two critical responsibilities. Many situations, especially within relationships and tasks, involve the discretion of both roles...
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Does your organization throw around a lot of silly jargon like “team effort”, “touching base”, or “vertical shift” to describe various business activities? If so, then you are one of thousands of companies that add these colorful, yet clique phrases to language in an attempt to make things seem bigger than they really are....
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On CBS Radio Network this morning, Charles Osgood, on his daily Osgood File, was talking Dale Carnegie. Both the concepts and the strategies of the Dale Carnegie sessions, workshops and classes come from common sense, and he wondered why these simple concepts of kindness, listening, and interpersonal commonality have to be taught. But...
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It is indeed 2012 and the challenges in Alabama as we head into the first quarter are voluminous in every category. The failures and the mistakes we made in the past year become clear learning examples that must grow our experience and get us better. Back in grade school, during those memorable parking lot...
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So, it is now 2012 and many people use the start of the new year to kick off the start to New Year’s Resolutions and goals for the year. One of the major downfalls to New Year’s Resolutions and the reason why most people tend to do really well for a week or so...
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“Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves”. Dale Carnegie Every leader needs a follower. The follower, by definition, needs to...
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