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Leaders Embrace the New Year with This

January 4, 2017 by Alan Feirer

Whether or not you took last week’s suggestion to evaluate your top three and bottom three from a list of possibilities, make sure you start the new year with some sort of review and goal-setting. If you’ve been at your … Read More… Read More

Stretching and Growing | Vision

A Quick Year-End Idea for Leaders and Teams

December 28, 2016 by Alan Feirer

Sometimes we know we should invest a lot of time in year-end evaluation, but we’re overwhelmed or tired. Here’s an idea to make it both easy and productive: Top Three/Bottom Three Gather your team, or just your calendars, and pick … Read More… Read More

Passion | Stretching and Growing | Vision

Success Pointers from a CEO

December 7, 2016 by Alan Feirer

Last week, I shared some ideas from one of the speakers at the Des Moines Business Record’s “90 Ideas in 90 Minutes”. This week, I’ll do the same with Bob Riley, the CEO of Riley Resource Group, which is an … Read More… Read More

Stretching and Growing | Uncategorized | Vision

Leaders Listen to their Team Members

September 7, 2016 by Alan Feirer

Originally, this blog was going to be about goal-setting. I spent some real time on it. Then, when Ashleigh went to proofread, revise, and schedule it, her reaction was to send me this email: This post is very, very similar to “Leaders … Read More… Read More

Positivity | Vision

Never Plan for the Worst Case Scenario

July 20, 2016 by Alan Feirer

I was in line at Costco, buying light bulbs and toilet paper, and noticed that the man behind me was looking me and my cart over with suspicion on his face. Eventually, he said “Hrmph. Mercury.” I wanted to say … Read More… Read More

Organizational Improvement | Vision

Leaders Use This Quick Buy-In Check For Teams

June 1, 2016 by Alan Feirer

If you’re short on time, and need to check a team response to an idea, action item, or new direction, but you detect that a simple “show of hands” won’t tell the whole story, try this – Ask for their response … Read More… Read More

Communication | Stretching and Growing | Vision

Leaders Know The Two Kinds Of Naysayers

May 26, 2016 by Alan Feirer

I confess to a pet peeve – I cringe when people say some version of this: “If you’re just going to complain, you’d better have a solution. Otherwise you’re wasting my time.” If you say this, you may be ignoring … Read More… Read More

Organizational Improvement | Vision

Production versus Research and Development for Leaders

May 11, 2016 by Alan Feirer

I was visiting with a seed scientist once, and I opened the conversation with a simple “So, how was your week?” “Oh, Alan,” Dr. Kim said. “I worked on the Acme project this week. And I learned a lot. There were … Read More… Read More

Communication | Vision

Leaders Anticipate and Defuse Excuses

April 27, 2016 by Alan Feirer

Aren’t excuses so predictable? You almost hold back from asking “Hey, Bill, have you got your TPS report ready?” because you know you’ll hear “I would, but I’m still waiting for Hillary to get the cover page ready.” If you know you’re going to … Read More… Read More

Stretching and Growing | Vision

Political Leadership is not Organizational Leadership

March 2, 2016 by Alan Feirer

Sometimes (especially in election years), a participant in a leadership workshop asks the question, “How does this content relate to political leaders?” I used to try to find some correlation — to point out that my definition of leadership, “meet … Read More… Read More

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