Category: leadership

Passion, vision, influence, and character… shared thoughts from twenty-one successful years at the top.

If You Had The Choice…

Posted on by Steve Buelow

Okay, so let me start by acknowledging that in terms of a scientific study... this would fail miserably. That is, of course, unless scientific studies involved grabbing a handful of…
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The Mother Load…

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So it used to be that children went to their Grandparent's homes to be, in my case, anyway... pretty well spoiled and doted on with every conceivable expression of love...…
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Time To Move On…?

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"So, how do you know when it's time to move on in your career?" In one form or another, it's a question I get asked fairly often... in fact, the…
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Not Funny…

Posted on by Steve Buelow

Fear is a funny thing. Well actually, I don't mean funny... funny. I mean sort of strange, somewhat troubling, quirky, mysterious and often unexplained... funny. For example, even at fifty...…
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Are You Competent..? Part II

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I hadn't really planned on making this a two-part post.  When I wrote "Are You Competent..?" a few days ago, about a conversation I had with a family friend who…
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Are You Competent..?

Posted on by Steve Buelow

In a discussion with a family friend earlier today, she related that there were some activities that weren't getting done... activities that she really felt needed to be accomplished in…
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Efficient… Or Effective?

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A few thousand years ago, a powerful and wealthy young man made the observation to the effect that... as iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. He knew that…
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Is That A Threat Or A Promise?

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We live in a threatening world. A quick scan of recent headlines has world leaders threatening other governments... other governments threatening their own people... and global warming threatening us all.…
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The Problem With Luck…

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A successful friend of mine likes to say that the harder she works... the luckier she gets. Another friend says that he's always been lucky... lucky that he's not lazy,…
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Hitting and Missing the Mark

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So this evening, at seven minutes to midnight, I made my last call of the day... and the last call of the month. The beauty of having multiple Time Zones…
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