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The Leadership Development Carnival – A Love Story

By Mark Stelzner | Published: February 7, 2011
The emotions attached to February 14th range from wide-eyed hopefulness and heart-pounding anticipation to downright disdain and overt hostility. As many attribute the same feelings to their organizational leadership, I thought we’d focus this month’s Carnival on our favorite Hallmark holiday. That’s right, it’s the leadership development carnival of love featuring fifty of the sweetest [...]
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The Best Company I’ve Ever Worked For

By Mark Stelzner | Published: September 28, 2010
It was 95 degrees in the shade when we arrived. The picnic area boasted the usual grouping of wooden tables surrounding a central grill, all (thankfully) shaded by a long-faded overhang. Greeting us were the warm smiles of colleagues I haven’t seen in well over ten years. Sure, the lines on our faces were a [...]
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A Carnival of Leadership

By Mark Stelzner | Published: June 8, 2009
Each month Dan McCarthy of Great Leadership by Dan hosts the “Leadership Development Carnival“, a collection of some of the best and brightest minds in the industry.  We are fortunate to have been included numerous times and grateful to Dan for the honor.  However, I wanted to call your attention to several of the other notable [...]
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Don’t Confuse “Miracles” With A Job Well Done

By Mark Stelzner | Published: January 16, 2009
Let me acknowledge the fact that some readers of this post will vehemently disagree with what I’m about to say. Others may get angry or upset or simply shake their heads with the disappointment of my “just not getting it”. I’m going in with my eyes open here so all your emotions, both in agreement [...]
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Sea Monkey or Seahorse: Which Are You in Times of Crisis?

By Mark Stelzner | Published: November 21, 2008
Over the course of this week I had the opportunity to visit with a wide variety of executives.  They ranged from leaders of multi-billion dollar enterprises to emerging entrepreneurs.  What struck me most was the polarization of attitudes across two distinct camps, namely the “sea monkeys” versus the “seahorses”. Monkey Sea, Monkey Do Sea Monkeys take [...]
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5 Post-Election Lessons for Leaders

By Mark Stelzner | Published: November 5, 2008
I’m not sure about you, but I’m exhausted and elated.  Over two years of campaigning, fundraising, commercials, robo-calls, debates, discussions, predictions and outright hatred have come to a close… or have they?  Regardless of how you voted, most agree that the real work lies ahead. So as leaders, what lessons can we take away from [...]
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Naked in the Leadership Classroom

By Mark Stelzner | Published: May 13, 2008
Greetings readers.  Inflexion’s recent post about Robin Wolaner’s book, Naked in the Boardroom, reminded me that there are not only differences in the way that men and women lead, but that there are some differences in the way that men and women learn to lead.  Using Wolaner’s metaphor, let’s think of this as Naked in the Leadership [...]
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