Lee Meadows Articles

Youthful Leadership - Click To Read Article
Traditional models of leadership may have to give way to other models that are inclusive of young talent. Leadership can come from modest experience as a way of moving an organization forward. The Pittsburgh have advance a model well worth considering.

Wake up and move up! - Click To Read Article
This article addresses the increasing competitive nature of 21st century promotions and advancements. There is a growing need to be more attentive to the full-throttle speed in which organizations are moving just to stay even. What worked last century will only get you derailed in this century.

Using a website to boost your profile - Click To Read Article
This article discusses the importance of having a website to help market your entrepreneurial activity

Transcendent Leadership - Click To Read Article
This article discusses the importance of leading beyond the day-to-day, but with a focus on the long term.

The need for collaboration - Click To Read Article
This article focuses on the importance of accessing other resources to help accomplish much needed tasks. Joint projects can be beneficial to cooperating organizations.

The Importance of Training - Click To Read Article
This article discusses the impact of training as a cost saving to small businesses.

The demands of leadership - Click To Read Article
This article explores the importance of leadership style

Self Awareness - Click To Read Article
This article addresses the issue of focusing on your individual skills and doing a true assessment of your capabilities.

Selecting the right talent - Click To Read Article
There is more to moving an organization forward than hiring people who are nice to have around. Global competition demands an entirely different focus for hiring, selecting and training employees. Talent has to be the main driver if competition is to be achieved.

Sculpting Your Business Focus - Click To Read Article
There comes a time when the individual employee has to recognize when their current skills are a barrier to becoming more employable. Most organizations recognize that it is the responsibility of the employee to further refine and develop a better set of business skills. This article establishes a framework for beginning that process.

Self-Appointed Subversive Spokesperson (SASS) - Click To Read Article
This article describes the behavior of individuals who have adopted the posture of duly appointed spokesperson for a unit or department. This individual has a need to express their anger by trying to take control away from the manager. It is in the best interest of the manager to know how to confront this kind of individual.

Retaining Your Customers - Click To Read Article
This article provides tips and ideas on how the small business entrepreneur can retain their customers

Protecting your ideas - Click To Read Article
The business community elicits ideas from a variety of different sources and, very often, can't determine where an idea began. Employees are encouraged to share their ideas as a way of moving an organization forward, but may not receive the appropriate credit and, thus, deflate any attempt to create an idea-engaging environment. This article talks about some basic ways to preserve the credit for a good idea.

Planning Your Business - Click To Read Article
This article provides tips and techniques on how to plan your business

Picking the Right People - Click To Read Article
This article examines methods for choosing the right people to work in the right jobs.

Marketing Your Business - Click To Read Article
This article provides tips and techniques on how to market your small business

Managing Bad Employees - Click To Read Article
This article discusses techniques entrepreneurs can use when faced with difficult employees.

Management 101 - Click To Read Article
This article is a return to the basics of managing without all the added fluff and feathers that get in the way of accomplishing organizational goals.

Managing away from core incompetencies - Click To Read Article
While the need to expand into other products, services and markets can lead organizations to explore new areas, the process can,also, set the stage for straying away from the core competencies that established a level of greatness. It becomes far too easy to rationalize taking on unrelated products and processes in order to diversify, but there is a greater concern when the blend of new and different create a more dangerous set of incompetencies.

Managing communication technology - Click To Read Article
Communication technology has reshaped both the professional and personal space by making the business owner easily accessible any time during the day and night, as well as across time zones. While it has proven, arguably, to be a productivity boom, its frequent use can be misinterpreted to be something that was never intended. The successful leader understands the need to balance the use of the technology in order to maintain objectivity and sound judgment.

Managing the Workload - Click To Read Article
There is a general understanding that when employees are downsized, the remaining survivors inherit their workload. The process increases the number of tasks by a factor of 3 and puts the employee in the unenviable position of being grateful for being overworked. This article provides insights on how employees can approach downsizing their workload into something that is manageable and contributes to remaining employable.

Leadership that sustains engagement - Click To Read Article
Leaders can have a powerful direct and indirect impact on the behavior of their followers. The delicate balance of style and personality is essential to understanding how to keep followers engaged in the act of doing and making a difference. Committed leaders understand that it is the ability to sustain the engagement of followers over a extended period of time that makes all the difference in the long-term success of an organization.

Leadership Lessons Heard - Click To Read Article
Leadership lessons are abundant in both literature and life! The prevailing wisdom is to maximize the lessons that come from life experiences by turning them into a never-ending learning process. However, too often it is the lessons heard that serve as the practical learning model, thereby minimizing what gets practiced in successful organizations.

Ideas are still needed! - Click To Read Article
Business success is, essentially, the product of ideas put into practice. Ideas are, always, at the forefront of new trends and patterns that reshape, reform and revitalize the heart of business and grows it to new heights. The role of a good leader is not to have all the good ideas, but to have access to the best ideas that flow from an engaged workforce. Ideas continue to make a difference in the start up of new business and will continue to be the catalyst for moving a small business toward success.

How to Manage Meetings - Click To Read Article
This article discusses the importance of managing meetings.

Hitting the wall!! - Click To Read Article
Businesses move forward and backward with the speed in which the economic cycle determines its winners and losers. There, also, comes a time when the need to stop doing something is far more compelling than to keep moving forward. Often times, the realization does not occur until a sudden, abrupt stop happens after the business relationship has hit a wall. It is important to recognize when a relationship is over and how to manage around the wall that is about to spell your demise.

Giving feedback on performance - Click To Read Article
This article describes the importance of giving feedback for work performance

Generating Ideas - Click To Read Article
This article discusses the importance of being open to ideas to further the success of the business

Eliminating Chronic Behaviors - Click To Read Article
This article addresses some organizations face when working with individuals who are habitually negative in their approach to work.

Decision making for success - Click To Read Article
This article discusses the importance of the decision making process.

Courageous Leadership - Click To Read Article
Tough economic times demand more than just a traditional approach to leadership. Many of the problems we have encountered can be traced to a lack of leadership, an absence of ethics and a willingness to see only the smaller picture of an organization's potential. Courage is needed and a courageous platform for leading will mark the true success of the 21st century organization.

Coaching - Click To Read Article
This article discusses the basic elements of developing employees and boosting their skill level.

Change in Mindset - Click To Read Article
The economic downturn has created a sense of disillusionment and frustration among thousands who find themselves standing on the outside of the employment gate. The key to change is not to sit and wait, but to take affirmative steps forward by, first, examining how you think and what you do. The key to success starts with reformatting your mindset to focus on what you can still accomplish.

Building Your Business - Click To Read Article
The purpose of this article is to give insights on the basic building blocks to starting and growing a business from scratch.

An Angry Workforce and little change - Click To Read Article
There is a growing tendency to give in to the surrounding external issues by taking it out in the workplace. Angry employees rarely make for productive experiences and far too often, it is used as an excuse to not focus on what can be done. The ritual of blame can be cast in a feeling of helplessness and loss productivity. Moving forward means letting go of the anger and drawing on individual creativity.

Bad habits in organizational culture - Click To Read Article
This article focuses on the misperceptions that occur when what masks as organizational behavior is, in actuality, bad habits. When bad habits are consistently ignored, an environment of tolerance gives way to the notion that, 'it's just the way we do things around here."


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