Frank Uncovers Excellence in Leadership

© Copyright Frank D. Kanu 2000-2008

wanna buy new house?

WHAT A GREAT IDEA!

We provide a concept that will allow anyone with sufficient life experience to obtain a fully verifiable university diploma.

Dear Joseph SPAMMER,

I am sorry but you seem to have missed that we have equal opportunity housing.

I also find it very disappointing that nobody at the phone number provided was willing to sell a house. No matter what education I claimed…

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(Picture by Fiona L. Brown, Mums In Business, Bedford, UK)

Our future leaders!

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© Copyright Frank D. Kanu 2000-2008

In many organizations management complains that the employees do not tell them what is going on. But that is only one side of the story. If you dig deeper you very often find that employees say: Management is not listening. Both sides are convinced that they do everything in their power—but that the other side is not responsible.

Who is right?

Can you change this situation? Do you ask the right questions?

Do you listen?

Do you hear what is said?

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How can questions help you to change—yourself or a situation?

This coming Wednesday (May 31st, 2006) at 2 p.m. EST (Not sure what time that is for you? Check the time zone calculator; New York is EST.) Frank Kanu, Author of
Stop Telling… Start Leading!
The Art of Managing People by Asking Questions
will host a free online workshop around questions. How to ask, when to ask, what to ask… No question is taboo.

You need Skype to be able to participate.

Please e-mail your contact details, why you want to participate and your most burning questions or answers. Participation is limited—the faster you answer the better your chances.

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The Veterans Affairs data analyst who lost the personal data of 26.5 million veterans improperly took the information home for three years before the data was stolen, government investigators told Congress Thursday.

In a pair of hearings, VA Inspector General George Opfer detailed a series of missteps leading to one of the nation’s largest information security breaches. He noted that his office only became aware of the May 3 burglary through office gossip.
Update 2/26/2007: The link does not work anymore. Please let me know if you of are aware of a working one. Thank you.

I found it via a posting from Frank Hayes and I agree this is just utter @#$&@!#

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Emily Post (1873-1960) wrote Etiquette in 1922.

Adjust these rules when necessary to match our time; e.g. “gentleman” shall be seen as genderless.

FAR more important than any mere dictum of etiquette is the fundamental code of honor, without strict observance of which no man, no matter how “polished,” can be considered a gentleman. The honor of a gentleman demands the inviolability of his word, and the incorruptibility of his principles; he is the descendant of the knight, the crusader; he is the defender of the defenseless, and the champion of justice—or he is not a gentleman.

Can you agree with his views?

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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there.

Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue, and reasonable nature.

By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: ‘I am rising to a man’s work.’

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

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Responsibility is a hot topic. In politics, news, business and last but not least society. As long as there are unsolved issues—we can fight about whose responsibility it was: The boss, co-worker, politician, government? Play the blame game. But never think about yourself!

Or should you?

Dealing with blame is what differentiates the good, the bad and the ugly; especially in the really tough times. Management has to show responsibility not only inside the team but also outside the team. Still many fail to show their responsibility towards customers. Having a complaints department just does not cut it anymore.

Too many overlook that responsibility starts within the own yard. It’s not a question of education, position, hierarchy, gender, et cetera. How much blame can you take? How much should you take? What can you do to deal with it?

How do you play the blame game?

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