leadership

Leader or Pusher?

April 20, 2011

Where do you stand when you and your team head in to the battle of business? Are you amongst the troops, ready to fight beside them and defend them until the end? Or are you sipping tea in your command post looking over maps and pushing pieces around a board safe from the fray? Pushers: [...]

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Reality Check With Craig Price – Episode 8 – Laura Lopez – Leadership

April 19, 2011

Laura Lopez sits down and talks leadership,  her background as a Senior Vice-President at Coca-Cola as well as parenting and how it relates to management. This allows her to tolerate a caffinated Craig as they discuss delivering crap sandwiches, the “reality” of Corporate America, parenting later in life and they also reveal adopted babies cannot be sent via FedEx from Russia! [...]

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Heart of the Projects Recommends “Half a Glass” as Gift for Business Leaders

December 6, 2010

Heart of the Project, a blog written by Alex Brown and hosted at Gantthead added a new post Meaningful Gifts for the Hard-To-Please Business Leaders In Your Life. Alex graciously included my book “Half a Glass: The Realist’s Guide“! If the two choices above are a little too “heavy” for you, Craig Price’s “Half a [...]

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The Blame Game Article is available

July 21, 2010

Feel free to read the latest article added to the archives: The Blame Game Tweet

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Are You the Brake or the Gas?

May 4, 2010

It seems that everywhere I look, bosses, managers and team leaders are trying to find new and interesting ways to motivate their people. What can be done to get them going? Be more productive? Many managers and employers are looking for that edge. They are looking at what they can do to get their people [...]

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Domino’s Embraces Negative Thinking!

January 4, 2010
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I’ve never been a big fan of Dominos pizza. Of all the pizza chains, I’ve thought of their pizza as the worst. I am not alone in this opinion. People complained. More importantly, it seems, people stopped buying Dominos pizza. Domino’s could have continued to make crappy pizza and just hire a PR company to [...]

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The Reality of “Keeping it Real”

September 14, 2009
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Seems there are a lot of people out there willing to talk without “the filter”. And by “the filter” I’m referring to that mechanism in our heads that stops us from saying whatever the hell we want (oops, my filter is a bit buggy too!). Let’s look at the past week, shall we? Loudmouth #1: [...]

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Obama Uses Negative Thinking to Help Our Students

September 9, 2009

This is not a political post. I simply want to bring to light how President Obama used some negative thinking to talk to our children, well your children yesterday. He let them know that they’re not going to strike it rich without hard work. From CNN:  I know that sometimes, you get the sense from [...]

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Jeff Goldblum Will Be Missed

July 1, 2009

With all the celebrities dropping like flies, rumors of other celebrities kicking the bucket are running rampant. CNN even had an article on it today: After a string of real celebrity deaths last week, the Internet and online social networks killed a few more stars. Despite what you may have read, Jeff Goldblum, Natalie Portman, George [...]

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NASA – Never Assume, Stay Alert

May 12, 2009

For all the negative things government is known for, it’s good to see one of the “cooler” agencies, NASA, is using negative thinking the right way. They’re taking my motto “Be Positive, Think Negative” to good use.  The headline from CNN says it all – Astronauts ready for rescue mission they hope never happens. In [...]

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