Topic: Donna Karlin

Leadership: Today I Will...

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 1:12 PM

This week I will…. Will you? Best laid intentions…How many leaders brainstorm about changes that have to be made to move an organization forward, arrange endless meetings and retreats and perhaps actually dialogue about what ...READ»

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Generated Wisdom

BY Donna Karlin
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Wed May 2, 2007 at 2:40 PM

In many organizations wisdom is generated but not captured. Teams amass an incredible amount of wisdom which isn’t captured or catalogued for subsequent teams and future use. Knowledge transfer is a constant struggle, especially ...READ»

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Leadership: Combined Forces of Ego and Emotion

BY Donna Karlin
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Wed Jan 23, 2008 at 1:23 PM

In a group dialogue a ways back someone posed the question “Why do so few managers and companies face and use the facts?” There are many answers to that question and I know we’ll only touch the surface on this. One of the ...READ»

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Unleashing Power and Potential

BY Donna Karlin
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Wed Mar 7, 2007 at 9:36 AM

Recently, I read a passage about leadership that defined it as "The capacity to influence others by unleashing their power and potential.” Those leaders who are charismatic, powerful speakers with energy and passion can quite ...READ»

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Leadership: Living Through the Rear View Mirror

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 100
Sat Jul 28, 2007 at 4:40 PM

My business cards have a shadow of a person driving with a reflection in the rear-view mirror. Why? Because I tell my clients “If you live your life by constantly looking in the rear-view mirror, you’ll eventually crash and ...READ»

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Leadership: Leadership Is Context

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 100
Tue Oct 30, 2007 at 6:20 PM

I was going to write a long post about leadership within various contexts, however I thought I'd start a dialogue to hear what you have to say about this. One can't remove leaders from the context of their worlds and expect to ...READ»

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What Do You Have To Give Up?

BY Donna Karlin
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Tue Aug 11, 2009 at 7:47 AM

What do you have to let go of that no longer serves you?READ»

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Leadership: Reacting vs. Responding

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 100
Sun Jul 22, 2007 at 12:47 PM

People limit themselves without realizing it by reacting to situations, rather than responding and broadening their horizons. That statement is one of many in a new program we're launching this week called "It's All About ...READ»

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Toleration 2: Thinking Traps

BY Donna Karlin
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Wed Apr 18, 2007 at 10:50 AM

Last week I asked the question "What are you tolerating?" I wrote of one toleration where people habitually come into meetings late. That results in everyone else having to wait around, push back the rest of the day and other ...READ»

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Jumping Into: Yes...No...Maybe?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 100
Wed Dec 20, 2006 at 4:27 PM

How many work for leaders who can’t make a decision come love or money? Unfortunately that seems to be a state of affairs way too often, especially in smaller businesses. In the corporate world, a leader who can’t make a ...READ»

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Leadership: Stubborn Leadership

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 98
Wed Dec 19, 2007 at 8:39 PM

You have the job….the job of a lifetime…the job of a leader. Your heart is in the right place. You want to take your organization to the next level and you know the potential is there but you’re losing the support of your ...READ»

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Scheduled to Death?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 97
Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 10:23 AM

My clients used to work 10 hour days. They left work at the end of a very long day exhausted, with the feeling they hadn’t accomplished a fraction of what they’d set out to do. And that was before the era of handheld devices. ...READ»

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Feedback

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 97
Wed Dec 27, 2006 at 6:42 AM

def. knowledge of the results of any behavior, considered as influencing or modifying further performance. Are you acting on it or parking it? Leadership is changing from 'power based' to 'human based. I see organizations move ...READ»

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Change is Personal

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 94
Mon Oct 19, 2009 at 5:33 PM

When organizations inform staff about massive change, transition, cut backs, re-engineering or whatever label they place on it with the assurance that "It's not personal" that they have to change how their organization operates to work within the current economic climate, keep up with competitors etc, and it's not about them, the take away is "It's about me. It's all about me." READ»

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Toleration 3: Dealing with a Critic

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Apr 25, 2007 at 9:05 AM

Are you working for someone who is constantly and consistently critical? No matter what you do there’s always an element of something wrong with it? Bullies come in all shapes and forms and are very prevalent in the workplace, ...READ»

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Leadership: Knowledge vs. Wisdom

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Nov 14, 2007 at 10:52 AM

I was recently at a conference where one of the speakers said “Learning is more than gathering information”. That statement had a profound effect on me for many reasons. We looked at the difference between knowledge and wisdom ...READ»

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Leadership: Defined?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Oct 3, 2007 at 10:12 AM

What is a great leader exactly? That is one of the questions consistently tossed about all over the world. I've read books upon books on leadership, write about leadership but is it defined in the true sense of the term or does a ...READ»

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Leadership: What If You Said No?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Jul 25, 2007 at 1:38 AM

What would happen if you said no? Would you begin to panic once you heard the words leave your mouth? Start to scramble to backtrack and end up doing what you said no to in the first place? Part of my last piece about react vs. ...READ»

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Leadership: Listening, or Listening and Incorporating?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Oct 24, 2007 at 9:53 PM

Most leaders ask for information but not necessarily for advice. Many will listen to advice and then end up tossing it and doing their own thing. Is it a pride issue do you think? Or in some cases, do you think leaders hesitate to ...READ»

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Leadership: Diving Into the New Year

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Jan 9, 2008 at 11:01 AM

It’s a new year. Yesterday a colleague of mine asked me until when was it appropriate to wish others a happy new year? My answer was (tongue in cheek) “Well if it’s the first time you’re seeing them since the holidays you ...READ»

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Fixing Things to Move Forward

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Mar 21, 2007 at 9:05 AM

We tend to be so busy trying to figure things out, look at trends, strategize etc. that we don’t tend to fix problems. What if, instead of analyzing things to death we fixed them? What if we didn’t look at trends and the ...READ»

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Are Leaders Born, Made or Appointed?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 90
Wed Jan 3, 2007 at 7:12 AM

OK, so I might push some buttons here but let's face it, too many people are catapulted into positions of leadership by virtue of being there...already being in an organization, meeting hiring quotas according to gender etc. But are ...READ»

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Leadership: Leadership Assumptions

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 87
Wed Nov 7, 2007 at 11:46 AM

I was revisiting all the comments I received from last week’s blog and they got me thinking…. I heard everything from “Talking about leadership style is a distraction” to analogies re the present Administration to definitive ...READ»

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You're a Leader. Now What?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 85
Wed Jan 31, 2007 at 8:28 PM

Congratulations....you got the promotion into a position of leadership.... Now what? You’ve gone from being managed to doing the managing without a “how to” book (and no...manuals tell you the bare minimum. It's the ...READ»

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What Are You Going to Give Up?

BY Donna Karlin
Relevancy Score: 83
Wed Mar 28, 2007 at 5:30 PM

Some people think they can do everything . Well, many executives keep doing things themselves because "it's a lot easier to just do it than take the time to train someone and then have to check the work anyway". These same people ...READ»

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