The CEO as Head Coach
Christopher Otto

With the painful memory of Madonna’s Super Bowl halftime show finally fading, the past NFL season offers some clear lessons on changing the culture of an organization.

The new coach calls his staff into the office. “I want to change the culture here.”

“OK. What do you want it to be?”

“Better.”

Every new leader wants to put his or her stamp on the culture. Without fail, HR designs a jaunty PowerPoint deck proposing everything from cumbersome initiatives to trivial gestures too quickly forgotten; Implement a more rigorous goal-setting process, serve better food in the cafeteria, put foosball tables in the break room, replace the worn sofas in the lobby. If the goal is to increase performance and achieve greater results, these kinds of changes won’t get it done.

This year’s Super Bowl participants have clearly created positive, productive cultures and sustained success over a long period of time. Between them, the Giants and Patriots have won 5 of the last 12 Super Bowls. They are the Google and Zappos of their industry.

More illuminating though is what has happened in San Francisco—where culture went seismic. Despite their glory days of the 1980s and 90s, the 49ers were one of the worst teams in the NFL over the previous decade. The 2010 season was a low point with just six wins. Cash-strapped and reeling, the 49ers made one major change—hiring new head coach Jim Harbaugh.

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Judson Todd Allen aka “Architect of Flavor” has parlayed his Gift into the national spotlight!

Check out the first episode of Food Network Star Season 8…

Are You Using Your Gift At Work?
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Each year it is estimated that US corporations lose an estimated $350 Billion due to low productivity of actively dis-engaged workers. To help people and corporations solve this problem, The Milestone Brand (TMB) co-founders, Darrayl & Derrick Miles have authored Superhuman Performance, a two-part book series emphasizing Utilizing Your Gifts to Perform at Extraordinary Levels.

In this series, the Miles brothers called on their friends who many regard as some of the world’s most powerful leaders and influential personalities to partner with them to “Transform Organizations and the Lives of Millions of People around the World.”

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Do you have the Gift of Leadership?

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Leadership Styles
Adapted from “The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management” by Alan Murray, published by Harper Business.

Leadership is less about your needs, and more about the needs of the people and the organization you are leading. Leadership styles are not something to be tried on like so many suits, to see which fits. Rather, they should be adapted to the particular demands of the situation, the particular requirements of the people involved and the particular challenges facing the organization.

In the book “Primal Leadership,” Daniel Goleman, who popularized the notion of “Emotional Intelligence,” describes six different styles of leadership. The most effective leaders can move among these styles, adopting the one that meets the needs of the moment. They can all become part of the leader’s repertoire.

Visionary. This style is most appropriate when an organization needs a new direction. Its goal is to move people towards a new set of shared dreams. “Visionary leaders articulate where a group is going, but not how it will get there – setting people free to innovate, experiment, take calculated risks,” write Mr. Goleman and his coauthors.

Coaching. This one-on-one style focuses on developing individuals, showing them how to improve their performance, and helping to connect their goals to the goals of the organization. Coaching works best, Mr. Goleman writes, “with employees who show initiative and want more professional development.” But it can backfire if it’s perceived as “micromanaging” an employee, and undermines his or her self-confidence.

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Synopsis: Companies invest millions in training and developing their employees. But all too often, those investments don’t pay off because leaders fail to factor in employees’ gifts.

Companies spend millions training and developing their employees. But does it really pay off? Sure, such investments can enhance skills and boost effectiveness and innovation. But far too often, leaders and managers overlook a crucial element: complementing employees’ knowledge, skills, and experience by maximizing the power of their innate gifts.

Managers must ask themselves: Do employees clearly understand the priorities in their day-to-day work?

Toward a strengths-based solution

Not everyone can excel at a particular task, regardless of training and effort. Though training can help people improve, most employees won’t achieve excellence performing a task unless their talents make them naturally inclined to perform that task at excellence in the first place.

Gallup research shows that people who know and use their strengths — and the companies they work for — tend to be better performers. In a study of 65,672 employees, Gallup found that workers who received strengths feedback had turnover rates that were 14.9% lower than for employees who received no feedback (controlling for job type and tenure).

Moreover, a study of 530 work units with productivity data found that teams with managers who received strengths feedback showed 12.5% greater productivity post-intervention than teams with managers who received no feedback. And a Gallup study of 469 business units ranging from retail stores to large manufacturing facilities found that units with managers who received strengths feedback showed 8.9% greater profitability post-intervention relative to units in which the manager received no feedback.

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Are You Using Your Gift At Work?
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Each year it is estimated that US corporations lose an estimated $350 Billion due to low productivity of actively dis-engaged workers. To help people and corporations solve this problem, The Milestone Brand (TMB) co-founders, Darrayl & Derrick Miles have authored Superhuman Performance, a two-part book series emphasizing Utilizing Your Gifts to Perform at Extraordinary Levels.

In this series, the Miles brothers called on their friends who many regard as some of the world’s most powerful leaders and influential personalities to partner with them to “Transform Organizations and the Lives of Millions of People around the World.”

Pick up your hardcovers to learn how to use what’s already in you to obtain the promotion, generate the profits and live the life that you deserve!
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Brand News!…the daily updates from The Milestone Brand that highlights people from all over the world who have command of their Gifts to achieve Superhuman Performance® was recently featured on LinkedIn Today!

Watch the video below and discover how you can receive daily updates of these extraordinary individuals via Brand News! on LinkedIn.

Staying on top of industry news is something we think matters for any professional whose success depends on being well informed. With all the news websites, blogs, tweets and newsletters out there, staying in-the-know can be time consuming and it’s increasingly hard to figure out what matters most when reading news across multiple sources.

We’re very excited to announce the launch of LinkedIn Today, which delivers the day’s top news, tailored to you based on what your connections and industry peers are reading and sharing. If you only have five minutes to catch up on news, LinkedIn Today can help you cut through all the clutter, so you can discover the top headlines you need to read to be better informed everyday.

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Boxing great and business success George Foreman shares his knockout business secrets for entrepreneurs.

Readers remember George Foreman as the former Heavyweight Boxing Champion and the spokesman for the popular George Foreman Grill. What they may not know is that he is also a successful entrepreneur whose portfolio today boasts the George Foreman Grill, George Foreman’s Knockout Cleaner, a line of clothing with Casual Male, fitness videos, Elgin watches, and much more. In Knockout Entrepreneur, Foreman shares his success secrets with aspiring and current entrepreneurs.

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Leadership is a Gift! And those with the Gift of Leadership get promoted faster, receive more job offers and encourage others to achieve Superhuman Performance at work and in their personal lives. Read the article below about the importance of Leadership and The Power of Listening.

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Leadership & The Power of Listening
By Mike Myatt

Great leaders are great listeners, and therefore my message today is a simple one – talk less and listen more. The best leaders are proactive, strategic, and intuitive listeners. They recognize knowledge and wisdom are not gained by talking, but by listening. Take a moment and reflect back on any great leader who comes to mind…you’ll find they are very adept at reading between the lines. They have the uncanny ability to understand what is not said, witnessed, or heard. In today’s post I’ll quickly examine the merits of developing your listening skills. Warning: this post isn’t going to coddle you and leave you feeling warm and fuzzy – it is rather blunt and to the point.

Want to become a better leader? Stop talking and start listening. Being a leader should not be viewed as a license to increase the volume of rhetoric. Rather astute leaders know there is far more to be gained by surrendering the floor than by dominating it. In this age of instant communication everyone seems to be in such a rush to communicate what’s on their mind, they fail to realize the value of everything that can be gleaned from the minds of others. Show me a leader who doesn’t recognize the value of listening to others and I’ll show you a train-wreck in the making.

In other posts I’ve pointed out it is simply not possible to be a great leader without being a great communicator. This partially accounts for why we don’t encounter great leadership more often. The big miss for most leaders is they fail to understand the purpose of communication is not to message, but to engage – THIS REQUIRES LISTENING. Don’t be fooled into thinking being heard is more important than hearing. The first rule in communication is to seek understanding before seeking to be understood. Communication is not a one way street. I’ve interviewed and worked with some of the most noted leaders of our time, and to the one, they never miss an opportunity to listen. In fact, they aggressively seek out new and better ways to listen.

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Are You Using Your Gift At Work?
Explanatory Trailer:

Each year it is estimated that US corporations lose an estimated $350 Billion due to low productivity of actively dis-engaged workers. To help people and corporations solve this problem, The Milestone Brand (TMB) co-founders, Darrayl & Derrick Miles have authored Superhuman Performance, a two-part book series emphasizing Utilizing Your Gifts to Perform at Extraordinary Levels.

In this series, the Miles brothers called on their friends who many regard as some of the world’s most powerful leaders and influential personalities to partner with them to “Transform Organizations and the Lives of Millions of People around the World.”

Pick up your hardcovers to learn how to use what’s already in you to obtain the promotion, generate the profits and live the life that you deserve!
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How To Inspire Others To Peak Performance
By Nido Qubein

It’s probably true that most people who work with us will never care as deeply as we do about building our business and serving our clients. If they did, they’d probably be working for themselves.

Yet there’s a great deal we can do to raise the level of their commitment and inspire them to peak performance. The operative word in the preceding sentence is inspire. You can demand that people who work for you be punctual, or that they perform at a certain level of output, or even that they do things reasonably well. Yet real commitment can only be inspired. And, inspiring people is what great leaders like John F. Kennedy and Lee Iaccoca did best.

How do great leaders such as these inspire others to commit themselves to their goals? It’s not just that they have charismatic personalities, or that they give a lot of high-powered motivational talks. What they do is communicate their vision so forcefully that other people adopt it as their own vision.

For example, in the early sixties, President Kennedy set his sights on putting a man on the moon, and told the American people “We can do it!” He said it with such conviction that masses of people believed it, and committed themselves to making it happen. And, sure enough, in less than a decade, the first human being had walked on the moon.

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Are You Using Your Gift At Work?
Explanatory Trailer:

Each year it is estimated that US corporations lose an estimated $350 Billion due to low productivity of actively dis-engaged workers. To help people and corporations solve this problem, The Milestone Brand (TMB) co-founders, Darrayl & Derrick Miles have authored Superhuman Performance, a two-part book series emphasizing Utilizing Your Gifts to Perform at Extraordinary Levels.

In this series, the Miles brothers called on their friends who many regard as some of the world’s most powerful leaders and influential personalities to partner with them to “Transform Organizations and the Lives of Millions of People around the World.”

Pick up your hardcovers to learn how to use what’s already in you to obtain the promotion, generate the profits and live the life that you deserve!
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Learn Your Gift Today by participating in our 2Million12 Campaign!

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Supercharge Your Organization with Superhuman Performance Training

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Dr. Ron Lattier is joining The Milestone Brand family as an Executive Coach.

Background on Dr. Ron Lattier:

Married to Adina Joy Lattier with twin daughters Latricia & Larissa

Lives presently in Raleigh, NC

Has served professionally as a Counselor/Therapist, a Consultant to non-profits/businesses, a Corporate Chaplain, an educator, a church leader, and an author.

Has graduated from several universities/graduate schools earning the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree.

Has a passion to love and to help others discover their God given gifts and to enjoy life 24/7.

Are You Using Your Gift At Work?
Explanatory Trailer:

Each year it is estimated that US corporations lose an estimated $350 Billion due to low productivity of actively dis-engaged workers. To help people and corporations solve this problem, The Milestone Brand (TMB) co-founders, Darrayl & Derrick Miles have authored Superhuman Performance, a two-part book series emphasizing Utilizing Your Gifts to Perform at Extraordinary Levels.

In this series, the Miles brothers called on their friends who many regard as some of the world’s most powerful leaders and influential personalities to partner with them to “Transform Organizations and the Lives of Millions of People around the World.”

Pick up your hardcovers to learn how to use what’s already in you to obtain the promotion, generate the profits and live the life that you deserve!
Click Here

Learn Your Gift Today by participating in our 2Million12 Campaign!

Click Here

Supercharge Your Organization with Superhuman Performance Training

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Created by “The Architect of Superhuman Performance;” Derrick Miles
Review Bio
 

Achieve Financial Success…God’s Way!

Pastor Sunday Adelaja helped 200 people become millionaires in just two years by teaching them how to apply God’s principles to their personal finances. Discover how they did it in Money Won’t Make You Rich, a comprehensive guide to true prosperity and financial freedom.

When you understand God’s principles about finances, you can control your money without letting it control you. In this practical, inspirational guide, Pastor Adelaja combines biblical truth, financial advice, and his own life experiences to explain such topics as:

The meaning of prosperity
The nature of poverty
The secret of success and four principles of continuous success
Three laws to making your money work for you
The reason for financial failure
And much more

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