Dear Readers

Fellow Dreamers, you know there’s (strategic) change brewing. March’s trip to Nova Scotia forced a one week solution. With Hong Kong on the horizon, the idea went even further. Plus March is ‘Put up or Shut up” month at MLC. And the amazing Domino Project Seth Godin launched, and, well….unstoppable. Click here for a SXSW Pokes (the Box) free eBook.

Lazy Man’s Leadership

The picture will make sense after you read this…

Funny how old corporate buzz words still float around, pretending to be useful.

Remember “empowered”?

What a ration of garbage. Empowered means you’re too busy (lazy & uncommitted) to focus on training and developing me.

Dude, can you imagine Parents “empowering” their kids? No! Parents have to invest blood, sweat and tears into making their children shine.

And by the way, it ain’t easy. Your kids can smell you if you’re a fake.

So can your direct reports.

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10 Things I’ll Miss (draft from July 2009)

Wrote this draft 1.5 years ago and here it is for the 1st time, but the photo was taken yesterday…

As of today, July 29, 2009, I’ve posted 190 jungle jeff blog entries, plus dozens of tips in the PAGES column.

Every single jungle jeff blog post, I believe without exception, has at least one, and most likely, multiple hyperlinks leading where?

One cyber-destination, and one cyber-destination only.

My workplace.

Effective immediately, that will no longer happen.

10 Things I’ll miss about not using social media to promote my workplace on jungle jeff:

  1. Everything  🙂
  2. The solace a person feels when they know they’ve done their absolute best
  3. Showcasing the depth and breadth of my workplace’s offerings
  4. Developing trust with jungle jeff readers
  5. Building relationships (see #4)
  6. Showing what’s possible to those around me
  7. Engaging potential consumers
  8. Spreading the word, to the world
  9. The potential to experiment, professionally, with the various free, web 2.0 tools
  10. Getting great results

Effective August 1, 2009, I will be writing about how my career choice has made me a better person.

Additionally, effective immediately, I will remove all hyperlinks, posts, You Tube videos and any other references. It just makes sense, until an official social media policy is in writing.

Thanks to the three leaders who approved this reasonable experiment. A great learning and development tool – for all of us.

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Monday Leadership Advice

Dear jeff, as you think about your future, and the very real option of retiring at 55, you have been bestowed a gift that has always been there, but you’ve only now been able to unwrap it.

What is this gift?

It is the gift of purpose. And your purpose is to set the example. Not through negotiation and logic, but simply by being authentic.

Jeff, maybe you can help others unwrap their gift too…Next Blog