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Who Are Your “Trusted Advisors”?

July 13, 2010 by Michael Hyatt

When it comes to your success, your advisors can make you or break you. In the 1990s, I made a terrible financial mistake. As a result of my success as a writer and a speaker, I made some significant extra income. I was also holding down a full-time job. I could barely keep up with it all.

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: Advisors, Counselors, Featured, Financial Advice, Going It Alone, Leadership, Lone Ranger

Rule #1: Don’t Publicly Criticize Your Boss

June 23, 2010 by Michael Hyatt

It’s never a good idea to criticize your boss in public. It’s an even worse idea to talk about him or her to the media. If you do, don’t be surprised if you get fired. You were asking for it.

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: Authority, Chain of Command, Featured, getting fired, Insubordination, Leadership, President Obama, Public Criticism, Your Boss

You Can’t Build a Reputation on What You Are Going to Do

June 21, 2010 by Michael Hyatt

Yet, they wanted us to trust them and invest in their future as though it had already happened. … At the end of the day, you can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: branding, execution, Featured, Leadership, Planning, Reputation, vision

John Wooden and the Power of Virtue in Leadership

June 8, 2010 by Michael Hyatt

Even though we’ve lost a great coach and teacher with John Wooden’s death, he left a legacy that that is especially relevant today: his virtuous leadership style.

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: Basketball, Character, Character Qualities, Connection, Featured, Humility, John Wooden, Leadership, Virtue

Leadership Question #8: How Do You Encourage Others to Communicate Your Core Values?

June 7, 2010 by Michael Hyatt

In my answer to Michael’s previous question, I emphasized the formal ways in which we communicate our values at Thomas Nelson. I talked about hiring practices, new employee orientation, rewards and recognition, and annual reviews. All of these are important, but, as I suggested at the end of the post, they are probably not the most important.

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: 20 Leadership Questions, Behavior, Core Ideology, Core Values, culture, Featured, Leadership

Leadership Question #7: How Do You Communicate Your Core Values?

June 4, 2010 by Michael Hyatt

“How do you or other leaders in your organization communicate the ‘core values’?” Unless values become behaviors, you only have a set of platitudes. Unfortunately, these platitudes will ultimately create cynicism when smart people realize that your behavior doesn’t line up with your words. At Thomas Nelson we rely on six methods to communicate our values.

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: 20 Leadership Questions, Behavior, Core Ideology, Core Values, culture, Featured, Leadership, Performance

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