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4 Ways to Effectively Guide Your Team

In our last installment of this series, we discussed setting the vision for your organization and developing SOPs. At least, that’s what the series list says. When I started writing this series, it was more like unconnected braingoo than a series of linear thinking. I did some scaffold-assisted planning and saw that some structure would [...]

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Share Your Vision and Standardize Procedures For Effective Leadership

This post is a continuation of The Elements of Leadership series. Knowing your team is critical if you are to lead them, but knowing what you want them to do is just as paramount. Your job as the leader of your team is to effectively communicate your vision for the organization and to initiate and [...]

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To Lead Them, Know Them

This post is a continuation of The Elements of Leadership. To effectively lead people, you have to know who they are. I’m not talking about learning their names and positions. Where do they live? What’s their spouses’ and kids’ names? Who are their favorite musicians and sports teams? These are the types of questions that [...]

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The Elements of Leadership and Decision-Making

The art of leadership takes years to learn, mainly because knowing how to lead requires knowledge of yourself, knowledge of those you lead, and knowing how to get things done. Despite these variables, there are elements of leadership that will apply in any context. I’ve been in a leadership role in one shape or another [...]

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What is Alltop?

The other day I mentioned that Clay Collins made it on Alltop’s Lifehack page. I didn’t do a great job of explaining what Alltop was then, but I wanted to take a second and do so now. Alltop has provided such a great explanation of what they do that I’ll just give a sample from [...]

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Why Academics Have a Hard Time Writing for Non-Academics

I had a forehead slap moment last Tuesday when I was proofreading a letter my wife had written to a military officer. She’s doing some research on families of Army National Guardsmen who have deployed, and she needed to write a letter to an officer to keep the research on track. She asked me to [...]

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How to Make a Most Popular Post Widget in WordPress

I’ve been looking around for different plugins or widgets that created a Most Popular Posts space on my blog. I spent some time looking and never found anything that seemed about right. But I wanted to get that space up on my blog so that I could point new readers to posts that other readers [...]

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Get more readers for your new blog with rssHugger

I’m starting to focus more on getting new readers for this blog, and I’ve run into the same wall that new bloggers often run into. It goes about like this: In order to get traffic, you have to be start getting links and readers. But to get links and readers, you have to have traffic. [...]

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What Type of Boss Do You Have?

Throughout my military career, I’ve run into many different kinds of leaders. It’s hard to really specify what exactly makes a good leader, but I have a very quick saying that helps me gauge them: “Some leaders you want to sit at the dinner table with, but you wouldn’t want to go to war with [...]

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