Posted on June 25, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
Today’s post comes from Jim Holland. Jim’s passion is enabling product marketing teams. With over 20 years of technology experience, he has a fresh and unique perspective in guiding and managing product teams and has a knack for synthesizing conceptual ideas and turning them into reality. Enjoy the post and don’t hesitate to tweet your [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
Which is more important: values or valuables? This, of course, is a personal question that only you can answer for yourself. In a recent episode of Live on Purpose Radio, Dr. Paul talks with Jake Carlson and Jon Gledhill about this key concept: it’s more important to pass values on to your posterity than to [...]
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Posted on March 31, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
Leadership, by its nature, involves being out in front, cutting a trail through difficult surroundings and confronting problems as they arise. Leaders spot opportunities and through the combination of market evidence and intuition pursue the right course for themselves and their organizations. They figuratively walk ahead and make sure the surrounding conditions are suitable for [...]
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Posted on March 25, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
The practice of love in the context of leadership is both powerful and necessary. Steve Farber describes this clearly in his audio book Extreme Leadership: In Pursuit of the OS!M. What does it mean to love the people you lead? My definition for the acronym LOVE embodies the actions necessary to cultivate positive behaviors that [...]
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Posted on March 16, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
“‘I don’t have time’ is the most frequently used excuse for incompetence.” According to Nick McCormick, author of LEAD WELL AND PROSPER: 15 Successful Strategies for Becoming a Good Manager, by focusing on specific strategies you will use your time more effectively and improve your leadership capabilities.
Nick points out that management is in a state [...]
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Posted on March 12, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
“This book attempts to do the improbable, if not the impossible. In a brief and clear way, we want to synthesize large numbers of frameworks, tools, processes, and studies of leadership to identify the essential rules that govern what all great leaders do.” Through rigorous research and significant experience, authors Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood and [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
US President Abraham Lincoln was an excellent example of determination. Though he lost businesses and fought bankruptcy, he never quit. Though he lost many elections, he never lost sight of his goal of becoming president. Though he was adamantly opposed by many, he stuck to his principles and lead the country through a tremendously difficult [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
One of the non-leadership attributes that bleeds many organizations of their productivity and consumes much personal time is selfishness. It is the act of placing a higher priority on one’s own desires or “needs” than on the desires and needs of other people. When individuals choose to serve themselves over others a callous exterior develops [...]
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Posted on January 20, 2009 by Michael Ray Hopkin
In the first episode of the Product Management Pulse podcast, my guest Dr. Paul and I discussed the Five Factors of Leadership, originally posted in May 2008. I have updated the content and re-post it here.
Product managers have to be leaders (in the true sense of the word) because they have the responsibility on [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2008 by Michael Ray Hopkin
December is a great time of year. Most people go out of their way to be a little kinder and a bit more open to what others are thinking. Regardless of religious beliefs most people seem more open to talking to their neighbors and cutting people slack for things they would not consider at other [...]
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