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What My Dog Trainer Reminded Me About Leadership

May 9, 2014 by Michael Hyatt

Sitting on the Front Porch with Charlie

Recently, my wife bought me a Labradoodle puppy. I had wanted one ever since my daughter got hers. My grandson named him “Charlie Brown,” since his fur was a beautiful chocolate brown color. Though he was born in January, we didn’t get to meet Charlie until last week. He spent the first eleven weeks at […]

Filed Under: Leadership Tagged With: Behavior, culture, organizational change, self-discipline, self-leadership, training

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