Productive Leaders
Real Estate Speaker Mary Kelly Addresses Leadership Issues at Joint NAR/CREA AE Institute; Writes Cover Story for Colorado REALTOR Magazine on Growing a Real Estate Business…
“I don’t have time to spend with my employees,” the new vice president complained. “I am always running to a meeting or trying to catch up on phone calls or trying to make sure I am reading what I need to read or signing papers. My employees should know what they need to do.” This new executive was in the first 100 days on the job, and he was failing. Why? He was invisible to his people. He took over and they barely
In 2004 I was using Steven Pressfield’s Gates of Fire (about the Battle of Thermopylae between the Spartans and the Persians, also the subject of the movie 300) at the Naval Academy while teaching World Civilization classes. My midshipmen really enjoyed the book and on a whim, I penned a note to…
The reason that we wind up cooperating with others as part of a team at work, the reason Paleolithic cave dwellers hunted as a team, and the reason people rowing in a scull move as one entity is that we are better together. Join forces. When we work toward a common goal, when we think and move and focus as one powerful…
I wound up in Ushuaia, Argentina over Christmas. The trip was kind of accidental, and the story long and irrelevant, but I got to see penguins and learn about an indigenous people I had never heard of, the Yamana. There were 3,000 Yamana living relatively undiscovered on the tip of South America until…
While the holidays are a wonderful time to get together and celebrate, there are some people who seem to use this time to become overly critical, spread unhappiness, and complain. They are grinches. What do we do about those people? First, we need to recognize that the holidays put us in contact with family and friends that we don’t always see often, so it is necessary to realize that different people respond to the same situations in…
I spoke at the Colorado Business Protection Summit last Friday which focused on helping businesses create contingency plans in case of a sudden evacuation or other emergency. As with other parts of the country, fires, floods, and natural disasters have emphasized the necessity for people to analyze…
As a leader, it is sometimes hard to recognize when top-producing, independent, A-Team members disengage. Why is it so difficult to see these problems with your former superstars? Your top talent are the people who push back against micromanaging and who generally thrive without much supervision…
The vicious cycle of delay, avoidance, then panic reminds many of us of writing the high school or college papers the night before. We only buckle down when we cannot avoid it anymore. How do we stop the procrastination cycle?
April Peterson