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Be Prepared For The Worst

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A little while back I had an experience that taught me to be prepared for the worst. I went to work for the day after spending a lot of time the night before working on Leadership Done Right. At the time, I was beginning to get a lot of traffic on the site and things were really starting to pick up. Then midway through the afternoon, I received a text message from my wife asking me if I had done something to Leadership Done Right when I was home for lunch. I texted her back that I hadn’t done anything and asked her why she was asking. She had gone on the site to check some things out and found that all she got was a message that said, “Sorry! This site is not currently available.” She immediately thought that I had done something to this site.

Learn to be prepared for the worstWhen I got her message, I immediately went to the site and got the same message. I then tried to go in through the back door as an administrator and got a message saying that the site I was looking for did not exist. At that point I almost had a panic attack… Okay, not really, but I was very nervous because I heard a story a little while back about someone that had their website canceled by WordPress.com without receiving any message or warning. They didn’t even get an explanation for why their site was canceled.

In the back of my mind I was wondering if the same thing had happened to me. Was my site going to be canceled? Well, long story short, later this afternoon the site came back on board without me having to do anything. The only explanation I can think of is that there was some type of a glitch that temporarily shut down the website. [Read more…] about Be Prepared For The Worst

Titanic-size Leadership Failures

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With the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, there are many articles being written about the historic event.  In addition, there are many commemoration ceremonies happening.  The Wall Street Journal published an article titled Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Titanic Business 100 Years Later by Ben Casselman And Ann Zimmerman.

The article discussed some events that will go on this weekend.  In the Fox Theatre in downtown St. Luis they will be holding “an elaborate re-creation of the final first-class meal aboard the ship.”  “Memorial events are being held in Cherbourg, France, where the ship headed from Southampton, and Cobh, Ireland, its final port of call, as well as Cape Race, Newfoundland, which received the ship’s distress signals.”

Lessons From Leadership Failures

With all the news of the Titanic shipwreck, it got me thinking about leadership lessons on leadership failures that can be learned from the tragedy.

Listen To The Little People

Prior to the Titanic crash into the iceberg, there were many warnings from the crewman that there was an iceberg ahead but the captain failed to listen.  As leaders, you should listen to ALL your employees, including the people that have what seem like insignificant roles.  Every employee has a different role and with that comes a different point of view.  As the leader, you can gain perspective from all your employees at each levels.  As you hear their advice and feedback, be sure to listen to what they say, and take it into consideration when you make your decisions. [Read more…] about Titanic-size Leadership Failures

Keeping Perspective As Leaders

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As a leader, it is very important that you are keeping perspective.  When we stop keeping perspective, we are bound to fail.  The following are three ways to keep everything in perspective.

Learn from the past

It is essential that we look to those who have gone before us and review both their successes and failures.  We must also take time to review what we have done in our own lives and the outcomes. [Read more…] about Keeping Perspective As Leaders