Tag: business
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Money and Free Speech
I sometimes get asked what drove me to sacrifice so intensely for our country. My answer may appear to be cliché, but it is honest and real: “Because I love this country and what it stands for. It never felt like a sacrifice for me; it felt like an honor.” What exactly do I love…
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On Leadership: You Play How You Practice
How you do anything … is how you do everything. You’ve probably heard it before. You may have heard it so much you are beginning to consider it a cliché, something to not even concern yourself with anymore. Here’s the funny thing about clichés: They started out as true wisdom. I’m not sure if this…
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In 2024, Stay Safe in a Thorn Bush
If it’s good enough for the battlefield, it’s good enough for the boardroom and kitchentable. At least that’s what I tell people because when leadership is done poorly incombat, we get one of three unacceptable outcomes: Mission failure, injury, or death. The good news is that you don’t have to be soldiers to execute the…
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Want to Be a Great Leader? Train Your Glutes!
Your gluteus maximus (or more commonly known as your butt) is the largest and strongest muscle in your body. In our active valley of skiing, hiking, biking, running and everything else under the sun, this little fact matters. Why? If you are a runner, for example, you’ve probably suffered from one of the following maladies…
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Basalt River Park: authentic vs. inauthentic
A desire to be your authentic self is a noble goal. Labeling someone inauthentic has become an insult that cuts deeply. There is a potential problem, though, with touting our authenticity. What happens if you are authentically a rude, snarky and condescending person? Is your authenticity still something to hold up as a badge of…
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Stop Labeling ‘Gen Z’ers’ and Start Leading Them
It seems like it was just yesterday the workforce was lamenting about millennials. They don’t work hard, they are selfish, they are spoiled, etc. Millennials can take a breath and relax because Generation Z has now taken up the mantle of the lazy, spoiled and selfish generation. I am a Gen Xer and I remember…
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Quietly Leading the Way
“Errol, I pay a guy with a quarter of your credentials a boat load of money to get his thoughts on leadership,” said a friend of mine when I told him I had become frustrated with the FBI’s culture but felt I couldn’t leave because it was too late to start a new career at…
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Controlled Chaos: the valley’s service industry, Roaring Fork Valley – Colorado
It has been suggested to me that the valley is so overwhelmingly based in “service industry” that leadership is not an important topic to be considered. “We have seasonal workers, and it is hard enough to get them to come to work,” the argument goes. Or, “It is impossible to build a culture in the…
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Plan, Execute, and Fail? The Impact of the Team Your Surround Yourself With
You did it all correctly. You understood why you needed to act. You set a clear and unambiguous goal. You outlined the tasks that needed to be accomplished to achieve your goal. You decided who was in charge of each task and when they should be completed. You set a regular standing meeting for updates.…
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Want To Be a Great Leader? Write 100 Blogs
Yes, this is Ice Cold Leader’s 101st blog! But what does it have to do with Leadership? Discipline, consistency, creativity, service. It takes all these things to write 100 blog posts. The discipline to sit and write. The consistency to do it every month. The creativity to come up with new topics to better serve…