Posts by Doug Sterbenz

Lead Yourself First

Before you can contribute to or lead a group, you must be able to lead yourself.  And that means working on yourself and improving yourself, so you can be a contributor and not a distractor.

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Why Company Strategies are Like Family Vacations

Most companies have well-put-together strategies. They spend countless hours brainstorming, creating, refining and developing a comprehensive company strategy. The fact is, many times those company strategies never come to life. The reason why that’s the fact is best explained if you think about family vacations. Most of us have been on a family vacation of…

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What Color Are You Wearing Today?

Note: In July, I always post about this bicycle race happening in France because of the valuable leadership lesson it teaches. Look at the picture above. Who is winning the race? You might think it is the person in front.  Nope, not in this race. The leader of the Tour de France is always the…

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Who is Watching You?

What’s going on in this picture? What’s the little guy doing? That’s right, he’s watching his dad. Why is he watching his dad? Because he wants to grow up and be just like Dad. He wants to eat cereal like Dad, learn to read and write like Dad, work like Dad, do sports like Dad,…

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Keynote Lessons from the Symphony

A few minutes before the start of the performance, as the crowd was still settling in, she stood up and moved to the front. Taking her violin, she played a single note. That one single note rose and filled the music hall. Then, all the other musicians began adjusting their particular instruments to the sound…

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