Summary:Most leaders are sabotaging their careers because they are giving presentations and speeches rather than leadership talks.  In terms of being a results-generator, the leadership talk far surpasses the presentation or speech. Here are three questions you must ask and answer before you can give a leadership talk.  If you answer "no" to any one of the questions, you can't give...

Summary:Summary: Your career advancement is predicated not only on your being a good leader but also on your being recognized by others that you're a good leader.  Many leaders, however, handicap their careers by failing to have this recognition come about in the right ways.  The author shows the right ways to cultivate the right recognition of your leadership. Keywords:leadership...

Summary:Whether you are a boss to thirty adult employees or the parent of three small children, consider what giving out reward certificates can do for you. Can you think of someone in your life that doesn't like to be appreciated or receive recognition for a job well done? I cannot. It seems like almost everyone could use a little bit of encouragement and praise.  Giving certificates of...

Summary:Standard results, though necessary, are far less important than deep results. Here's how to define them and how to achieve them. Keywords:leadership skill, leadership skill training, leadership development, management, management skill, management skill training, effective leadership, leadership communication, leadership communication skill, management communication, management...

Summary:Series of articles examining what draws different types of gamers to the hobby of playing video games. Keywords:playing games, video games, play games, games hobby Article Body:There exists some ephemeral quality that separates gamers from the rest of humanity, some thing that makes us, us and them, not us. I've never been able to quite put my finger on it, but it is inescapably there....

Summary:Part 2 in the series examining what draws different types of gamers to the hobby of playing video games. Keywords:playing games, video games, play games, games hobby Article Body:Last week we started to get into the motivation of the gamer. We discussed challenge and its ugly stepsister competition, two of the most common motivators. Today, we look at two more on the way to forming an...

Summary:In the final part of this 3 part series on playing video games, we have a look at Socialization and try to tie it all together. Keywords:playing games, video games, play games, games hobby, free games Article Body:In part 2 of this series we took a look at Creative Expression and Escapism, two significant motivators of the common gamer. The week before that, we covered Challenge and...