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By admin on August 25th, 2009
First sighting of Just Ask Leadership
Barns & Noble Galleria, Edina
Archive for August, 2009
By admin on August 21st, 2009
Good Questions To Ask – What comes after Just Ask – Advise from a client
First book was “Just Ask” Here’s an idea for the sequel.. “Just Answer” Maybe a little more credible to staffers than “Who will take this letter to Garcia” Copied and paste from this weeks “just sell” email: Thought it was pretty good You don’t know everything. You do know that, don’t you? Continual learning is [...]
By admin on August 20th, 2009
Leadership Conference September 17th in Minneapolis
Leadership summit hosted by The George Family Foundation, with support from Target, Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal, and Fredrikson & Byron, featuring Bill George (Fmr Chair and CEO, Medtronic), Marilyn Carlson Nelson (Chair and fmr CEO, Carlson Companies), John Donahoe (Chair and CEO, eBay), David Gergen (CNN and Harvard), and Anne Mulcahy (Chair and fmr CEO, [...]
By admin on August 20th, 2009
Questions – A story that you have to hear!
Jim Estille has a blog named CEO Blog Time Leadership. He recently did a review of my book Just Ask Leadership. From that we started to exchange emails to one another – I guess this is how social networking works. He recently sent me a story for my speaking engagements. I liked it so I [...]
By admin on August 17th, 2009
Market Media Magazine – Just completed an article for
Keep a look out should be coming up in one of the next issues Market Media Magazine
By admin on August 17th, 2009
The Backstory: How One New Author Got His Book Published, by McGraw-Hill.
Ed. Note (GL Hoffman): Gary Cohen is a friend of mine here in Minnesota. He is a proven entrepreneur, one of the companies he started went from two employees to over 2,000. Seriously. He is a thoughtful, interesting guy to say the least. As he was developing his business, he discovered how important being a [...]
By admin on August 08th, 2009
The ordinary and the extraordinary
Rabbi Michael Latz opens the service for Adam Rochlin’s Bar mitzvah saying, “that having a Bar Mitzvah is very ordinary. It happens every weekend around the world. And yet this one is extraordinary for Adam and all of us participating in the service.” I had several hours to consider this thought and realized how often [...]
By admin on August 07th, 2009
Business Week article on Just Ask Leadership
Today I began drafting an article for Business Week on the Top 15 Questions a Leader should ask & How leaders can learn to ask the right questions. Stay tuned….
By admin on August 07th, 2009
Just Ask Leadership – First Viewing!
Wow my first time seeing my book what a great experience. Four years in the making!
By admin on August 07th, 2009
International Values Research Being Conducted
Chris Porter from the UK is conducting surveys around the world via Skype and Survey Monkey to help support the coaching industry. She is delightful and so appreciative of peoples time. If you feel you could be helpful to her please reach out by clicking on one of the two surveys below depending on if [...]
By admin on August 06th, 2009
Leadership Definition
Socrates sought to define important terms before having a debate. How productive can a debate be, after all, if terms are not agreed upon by everyone? The act of defining, however, is not always clear cut. In fact, it can lead to more debates. In building a training program for leaders, I’ve given a lot [...]
By admin on August 06th, 2009
Just Ask Leadership Gruzzle From the Inventor GL Hoffman
GL Hoffman who is a successful serial entrepreneur. He is at it again by inventing a new way to look at things that may look unrelated with his Gruzzles. Gruzzles are a mash-up like the Black album and White Album becoming the Grey album. GL sent this to me today as a original Gruzzle for [...]
By admin on August 04th, 2009
Leadership and Trust
When you walk across the street, when your speeding down the highway at 65 miles an hour, why do you trust these perfect strangers driving in front of you and beside you with your life more than you trust people on your team with your career or the entire business? This morning I was walking [...]
