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What is Your Advice for New Leaders?

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New leaders go through a wide range of emotions. There’s excitement about the new opportunities, anxiety about making a mark, and confidence in the skills that brought them to where they are. With all this excitement, they also often lack knowledge and experience. There’s nothing wrong with that. The way to overcome those feelings is to seek advice. Along those lines, I was recently asked, “What is your advice for new leaders?”

Advice for New Leaders

To answer this question, I go back to when I was a new leader. As a new leader, I had many of those feelings going through my head. I felt excited, overwhelmed, nervous, and a wide range of other emotions. Those feelings were and are normal and expected.

What is Your Advice for New Leaders?
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As a new leader, I was in a position where I had a lot of control over things that I didn’t have control over in the past. Once I got over the initial range of emotions, I realized I had to get to work. So let’s answer the question… What is my advice for new leaders? I have three pieces of advice. [Read more…] about What is Your Advice for New Leaders?

Podcast Episode #11 — Failure Is Not An Option – 5 Lessons From Apollo 13

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Hello and welcome to the Leadership Done Right podcast, Episode 11: Failure Is Not An Option – 5 Lessons From Apollo 13.

LDR 011: Failure Is Not An Option – 5 Lessons From Apollo 13

Leadership Done Right Podcast

Apollo 13

Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. The craft was launched on April 11, 1970, at 1:13 PM CST from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, but the lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module (SM) upon which the Command Module (CM) had depended.

Podcast #11 — Failure Is Not An Option - 5 Lessons From Apollo 13
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The Problems

Following the explosion, the crew onboard realized there were many problems with their equipment. Their chance to make it back to earth kept dwindling as time went on. Flight Control located in Houston, urgently provided assistance in resolving the issues they were encountering. They had to desperately search for answers to unique problems. They listed all the problems they could think of.

  • Batteries may freeze
  • Water system may freeze
  • Propellant may freeze
  • There were a large number survival issues
  • How do we get back through the earth’s atmosphere

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5 Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs

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The legacy and influence of Steve Jobs has set some of the best examples we have of what determination and being different can achieve. Even though Jobs was only able to have a professional career for 35 short years, the impact he had on the world in general and technological industry, in particular, will continue to inspire the generation for years.

5 Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs

5 Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs has changed the world with his exceptional leadership skills. He was a true leader who changed the shape of the Apple Inc. with his perceptive vision and new-fangled approach. For newbie leaders, he has left some inspirational lessons that can help them achieve success. Some of them deserve a mention here:

5 Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs - Succession Planning

1. Train your Successors

Another lesson Steve Jobs learned from impending death is to make sure that if the main leader falls, the organization should not. This is the secret to a long-standing business or company. A leader should strive to make the people at each level capable of working in his absence. [Read more…] about 5 Leadership Lessons From Steve Jobs

You Can Succeed – Learn What It Takes

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For this week’s Friday quote, I would like to share a poem that I heard by a good friend of mine. I like the poem so much that I told my wife about it and she made it into a decorative saying and put it in a frame for me.

You Can Succeed - Be the Man

Be The Man

The MAN who decides what he wants to achieve
and works till his dreams all come true,

The MAN who will alter his course if he must
and BRAVELY begin something new.

The MAN who’s determined to MAKE his world better,
who’s willing to learn and to lead,

The MAN who keeps trying and doing his best
is the MAN who knows how to SUCCEED.

~Anonymous

You Can Succeed!

This poem is titled “Be The Man,” but it is just as applicable to women as it is to men. I really like this poem because it gives me courage to work hard, do my best, be willing to try new things, and set and obtain goals. [Read more…] about You Can Succeed – Learn What It Takes

Life Reflection – How Shall I Live?

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When I was in the MBA program at the University of Nevada-Reno, I had to do a write-up for one of my MBA classes.  The teacher asked the students to look at their lives and analyze the way they were living their lives.  After evaluating their lives he requested that they answer the question, “How shall I live?”

How shall I live

How Shall I Live?

In thinking about how shall I live, it was very important to think about what matters most.  In my life there are three driving forces cause me to do what I do. They are outlined below. Each of the three driving forces on my behavior has an influence in my everyday life. [Read more…] about Life Reflection – How Shall I Live?

How to Relish Your Job (When You Don’t Love It At All)

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This is a guest post from Vanessa Collister. She is a well-known academic writer, who has been in the field of education for over 3 years now. She has been providing one-to-one assistance to learners who ask her for assignment writing help when they are stuck with their topics or research.

You probably entered the job market thinking you will get your dream job and live happily forever, but you ended up in a dead-end job that you loathe. You hate everything about your job. You hate your boss who keeps criticizing you, you hate your small desk and you hate Mondays of all things.

How To Relish Your Job

Just because your job seems to be going nowhere, i.e., you are denied promotion or you no longer have the same passion with which you started sometime ago, does not mean that you must quit. Before taking any rash decision, think about you future and most importantly the job market, which is very tough these days. Frankly speaking, you are very lucky that you at least have a source of income.

WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO?

You do not have to worry because there are lots of people out there who go through the same phase at least once in a lifetime. Whether you want to quit because you are bullied, or because you have a horrible boss, or you are simply bored of routine life, you can still change everything and enjoy the job with the following tips. [Read more…] about How to Relish Your Job (When You Don’t Love It At All)