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Are You a Warrior at Work?

June 23, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

You have seen the person who is a warrior at work. You know that person who readies for battle, the win-at-all-costs type of person? You may be that person; do you see the finish line and let nothing get in your way? And when you do cross it, it is on to the next task and battle - you are going to o ...

Do You Show Up to Work as the Regal King or Queen?

June 9, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

In our last blog we looked at the Joker archetype and how it determines how others see you, and influences your behavior in situations. As we continue our journey into the many discourses that explore how we as leaders manifest certain body dispositions, lets look at one known as the King or Queen a ...

Are You a Joker at Work?

May 26, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

There are many discourses which explore how we show up in our body. Each has a slightly different approach but many explore the four basic body dispositions or styles, which we will examine in this and future blogs. As we start to explore how our bodies impact our leadership, a great place to begi ...

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- ...

The Extraordinary, Ordinary Meeting

April 21, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

I was recently in an extraordinary, ordinary meeting. It was a Friday morning meeting where the previous day’s activities were discussed and the plan for the upcoming day was shared with the group. It was a meeting where people were engaged in a great dialogue of learning and listening. There was ...

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 ...

Gardening versus Farming- A Leadership Perspective

April 7, 2015 By Croft Edwards - No Comments

When it comes to leadership are you a farmer or a gardener? How you look at it may determine your success.Farming:The goal in farming is harvesting a crop. In farming, for instance corn, each field has plants that are all the same. They all come from seeds that are genetically identical, an ...

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 ...

Are You a Warrior at Work?

Do You Show Up to Work as the Regal King or Queen?

Are You a Joker at Work?

Are you Dissatisfied with the Performance, or the Performer?

Who is Training Your Team to be Leaders?

Sweeping With Taylor Swift

The Extraordinary, Ordinary Meeting

Where is your Leadership Dojo?

Gardening versus Farming- A Leadership Perspective

LeadershipFlow in Action: Tom Izzo and March Madness

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