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How to Lead Horses…and Men

5. June 2007

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I was thumbing through Robert Dilts’ Alpha Leadership: Tools for Business Leaders Who Want More from Life when I came across this concise explanation of why leading yourself first is important before leading others. The central idea in the story of Monty Roberts, the ‘Horse Whisperer’, is that although horses will run away from strange humans [...]

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How to Create a Place of Power

16. May 2007

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More and more I am coming to realize that there can be no real leadership unless there is self-leadership, and that self-leadership can be one of the hardest and loneliness things to do, which is probably why so few people do it. Like not letting anyone or anything affect you emotionally unless you let it, like [...]

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Who Leads Your Reality?

15. April 2007

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What’s the difference between someone who’s led around by the nose and someone who does the leading? In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), we learn about the Law of Prerequisite Variety: the element in any system that has the most flexibility will end up leading the system. Think of little children, they have incredible flexibility. To get you to [...]

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Bring something new to the table

23. November 2005

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A leader is someone who brings something new to the table. What do I mean? Imagine a bunch of chefs making a cake. As long as you keep doing it the same way, the cake will end up the same each and everytime. Even if you change the steps, like mixing it a bit more, baking it [...]

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Dealing with Problems

25. October 2005

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One blog that I enjoy reading and always get something useful out of is Hot Points by Go Daddy’s founder and president Bob Parsons (if you’re not that net saavy, Go Daddy isn’t about anything kinky, but is one of the net’s premier domain name registrars). I was reading his article about dealing with problems when [...]

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