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How Dare You Even Think of Leaving My Company

July 7, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

How dare you even think about leaving my company for greener pastures?After all I have done for you!- I have asked, no, make that told you to stay late many days because I was disorganized and needed you to bail me out.- I have cut you zero slack when your personal life o ...

Are you Dissatisfied with the Performance, or the Performer?

May 12, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

We have all likely been in a situation like this before. We ask, or tell, a subordinate to do something, a task, and in our mind we are crystal clear as to what we want. After some time they report that the task is done. Much to our amazement (or chagrin, or anger, you fill in the emotion) the task ...

Who is Training Your Team to be Leaders?

May 5, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

Who is training your team to be leaders? Who is teaching them how to motivate others, to have effective conversations, to create powerful futures for the organization? If I were to ask many leaders this question I’ll bet I would get answers such as:-We have a training department.-We outsource that ...

Sweeping With Taylor Swift

April 28, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

Question: How do you get four pre-teen girls, three of whom are your daughters, one a neighborhood friend of theirs, to help you clean the garage when they do not want to and they think that it is, “Not any fun!”? You do it by playing Taylor Swift’s Shake it Off and Style back-to-back-to-back- ...

Where is your Leadership Dojo?

April 14, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

Where do you practice your leadership? Literally, where do you practice your leadership? Do you have a time and place set aside to practice things like effective conversations and moods of possibility? If you are working on making your body strong by lifting weights, I bet you could show me the gym ...

LeadershipFlow in Action: Tom Izzo and March Madness

March 31, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

Whether you are a college basketball fan or not, to watch Tom Izzo and his Michigan State Spartans march through the tournament to the upcoming Final Four, is to watch #LeadershipFlow in Action. Here is a leader who creates the conditions for greatness to happen, for Flow to happen. Cultivating Othe ...

How Words Created Your Past – and Will Create Your Future!

March 24, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

We create our futures in language. The simple declaration of “No,” or “Yes,” creates a new future for us every day. I am not talking about the outcome of the yes or no - but that fact of saying either one opens up very different possibilities. From an ontological perspective (ontology, the s ...

LeadershipFlow in Action: Kim Frederick

March 10, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

In this ongoing series of conversations with gifted leaders I am exploring #LeadershipFlow in action. What is it? How does it help leaders navigate change and inspire others to reach for more?Today I am sitting down with Kim Frederick who is the owner of Foxfield Arabians, a horseback riding and tra ...

LeadershipFlow in Action: Scott Murray

November 17, 2014 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

Croft interview - Scott MurrayIn this ongoing series of conversations with gifted leaders I am exploring #LeadershipFlow in action. What is it? How does it help leaders navigate change and inspire others to reach for more?Croft: Today I’m out on a beautiful urban farm to talk with Scott Mur ...

Who is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi? (And how do you Pronounce his Name?)

October 27, 2014 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

To start to lay out the concept of LeadershipFlow it is necessary to really understand the concept of Flow and there is no better place to start than the study of the man who is really considered the “Godfather” of Flow, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced Me-High Chick-Sent-Me-High). Csikszen ...

How Dare You Even Think of Leaving My Company

Are you Dissatisfied with the Performance, or the Performer?

Who is Training Your Team to be Leaders?

Sweeping With Taylor Swift

Where is your Leadership Dojo?

LeadershipFlow in Action: Tom Izzo and March Madness

How Words Created Your Past – and Will Create Your Future!

LeadershipFlow in Action: Kim Frederick

LeadershipFlow in Action: Scott Murray

Who is Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi? (And how do you Pronounce his Name?)

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