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Listed below is a series of free articles to help you become a more complete and powerful person and leader.

They are divided into four development categories: Organizational, Professional, Team and Personal Development.

Some of these articles are my answer to a question sent in by readers from the Q/A section of my monthly newsletter, The “Whys” Leader.

These “newsletter articles” each come with a two or three minute video in which I expand or elaborate upon the issue at hand.

Feel free to read as many as you like, then after reading an article may I suggest that you send it to someone in your company whom you think might benefit from reading it.

Even better, please share it with your favorite charity, spiritual or non-profit organization.

Enjoy and then pass it along.

Your friends will benefit and you will be and feel the better for doing so.

Organizational Development

  1. The Three Change Factors: Why People do What They do in Your Organization and What You Can Do About It (February 2014) • link
  2. How to Overcome Survivor Sickness and Revitalize your Downsized Organization (February 2014) • link
  3. The Three Primary Determinants to Human Interaction – Part One (March 2014) • link
  4. The Three Primary Determinants to Human Interaction – Part Two (March 2014) • link
  5. The Three Primary Determinants to Human Interaction – Part Three (March 2014) • link
  6. The Three Primary Determinants to Human Interaction – Part Four (March 2014) • link
  7. Systems and Processes – The Difference (March 2014) • link
  8. The Three Dimensional Secret Building a Successful Business – Part One (April 2014) • link
  9. The Three Dimensional Secret to Building a Successful Business – Part Two (April 2014) • link
  10. How to Improve Your Luck – Part One (April 2014) • link
  11. How to Improve Your Luck – Part Two (April 2014) • link
  12. How to Improve Your Luck – Part Three (April 2014) • link
  13. Aligning Business With IT and IT with Business – Part One (April 2014) • link
  14. Aligning Business with IT and IT with Business – Part Two (April 2014) • link
  15. Coaching Excellence: What Science Says about Human Motivation (April 2014) • link
  16. Coaching Excellence: How to Delegate a Simple and Boring Task (April 2014) • link
  17. Coaching Excellence: Why Employees Get Defensive and Difficult (April 2014) • link
  18. Coaching Excellence: Why the “Praise Sandwich” Does not Work (April 2014) • link
  19. Coaching Excellence: How to Address Poor Performance (April 2014) • link
  20. What Causes Silos in your Company and What to do About it? (April 2014) • link
  21. Self Mastery: What is it and How do you Get it? (April 2014) • link
  22. Self Mastery: Strategy One – What Do You Do When You Don’t Want to but Should (April 2014) • link
  23. How our Core Personality Develops – Part One (April 2014) • link
  24. How our Core Personality Develops – Part Two (April 2014) • link
  25. A Tale of Two CEOs: How Leaders Unwittingly Cause Complexity (April 2014) • link
  26. Don’t Change, be Different (Part One) (May 2014) • link
  27. Don’t Change, be Different (Part Two) (January 2019) • link

Personal Development

  1. Mindset and Language: the Keys to a Happy Marriage (February 2014) • link
  2. The Five Stages to Personal Change and Self Mastery (February 2014) • link
  3. How to End Things – Part One (February 2014) • link
  4. How to End Things – Part Two (April 2014) • link
  5. How to End Things – Part Three (April 2014) • link
  6. The Five Stages of a Marriage (May 2014) • link
  7. We do not Have Free Will, Only Free Won’t (May 2014) • link
  8. A History Lesson on Human Emotion, our Relationships and the Brain – Part One (May 2014) • link
  9. A History Lesson on Human Emotion, our Relationships and the Brain – Part Two (May 2014) • link
  10. A History Lesson on Human Emotion, our Relationships and the Brain – Part Three (May 2014) • link
  11. A History Lesson on Human Emotion, our Relationships and the Brain – Part Four (May 2014) • link

Professional Development

  1. The Twelve Core Concepts for the Complex Organizational Sale (February 2014) • link
  2. It`s About Time: Twelve Ways to Use the 80/20 Rule (February 2014) • link
  3. The Brand New You (February 2014) • link
  4. The Power of Language to Transform your Organization (February 2014) • link
  5. Value – Part One; What is Value? (April 2014) • link
  6. Value – Part Two: Two Kinds of Value (April 2014) • link
  7. Facilitative Consulting – Part One: The Four Elements to Consulting (April 2014) • link
  8. Facilitative Consulting – Part Two: The Consultant’s Four Assumptions (April 2014) • link
  9. Facilitative Consulting – Part Three: The Three Consultant Goals (April 2014) • link
  10. Facilitative Consulting – Part Four: The Three Consulting Roles (April 2014) • link
  11. How to Exercise Influence: The Law of Reciprocity – Part One (April 2014) • link
  12. How to Exercise Influence: The Law of Reciprocity – Part Two (April 2014) • link
  13. The Hazardous and Perilous Plight of Being a Middle Manager and what to do About it – Part One (April 2014) • link
  14. The Hazardous and Perilous Plight of being a Middle Manager and What to do About it – Part Two (April 2014) • link
  15. The Hazardous and Perilous Plight of Being a Middle Manager and What to do About it – Part Three (April 2014) • link
  16. A Better way to say “No” (April 2014) • link
  17. The Stages of Interaction: the Communicate – Facilitate – Negotiate Process (May 2014) • link
  18. The Most Common Disparity in Difficult Conversations: Thinkers and Feelers (May 2014) • link
  19. Communicating across the “Thinker – Feeler” Divide (May 2014) • link
  20. How to Communicate Effectively with a “Thinker” – Seven Golden Facilitative Questions (May 2014) • link
  21. How to Communicate Effectively with a “Feeler” – Don’t Be Understanding Rather Show Understanding (May 2014) • link
  22. Sales: Don’t Write Proposals, Write Confirmations (May 2014) • link

Team Development

  1. Consensus on a Team: What is it and how do you Get it? (February 2014) • link
  2. Committees and Teams: There is a Big Difference (February 2014) • link
  3. The Three Systems Companies Unwittingly but Consistently Use to Effectively Run Their Operations – Part One (April 2014) • link
  4. The Three Systems Companies Unwittingly but Consistently Use to Effectively Run Their Operations – Part Two (April 2014) • link
  5. The Eight (New) Principles to Strategic/Tactical Planning (April 2014) • link
  6. Leaders Must Know Their Organization’s Three Distinct Team Processes: What They are and How They Work (May 2014) • link
  7. The Historical Development of Business Teams in North America – Part One (May 2014) • link
  8. The Historical Development of Business Teams in North America – Part Two (May 2014) • link
  9. The Historical Development of Business Teams in North America – Part Three (May 2014) • link