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Economics are at the heart of business. But how we define economics, what we enable economics to encompass, determines whether our leadership is rich or poor. This episode of The Seven Lemons of Leadership examines the cause of poor economics and what we can do to avoid it.

The main purpose of business, according to business guru Peter Drucker, is to get and keep customers. How do we get and keep customers? By delivering products and services that provide value.

The third Lemon of Leadership occurs when our customers question the value of our goods and services. And the fourth Lemon of Leadership occurs when we take our customers for granted and deliver our goods and services in a dismal fashion.

When either of these Lemons appear, our company or organization is on a steep slope to rapid failure.
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The Second Lemon of Leadership is A Tepid Team. When a leader’s team is unenthused about their work, days grow long and the joy of leadership quickly sours. This episode of The Seven Lemons Of Leadership explores why teams lack passion and what the leader of the team can do to sweeten the situation.
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The first lemon of leadership is NO GOAL/NO SCORE. In this episode we explore why goals are critical to leadership success and present a simple and effective way to approach goal-setting.
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No one I know has ever joined a company expecting it to be a bitter experience. Most of us expect sweet things from our work. So why do things go sour?

This is the first of a video series called The Seven Lemons of Leadership. In this series we’ll explore and deal with the behaviors that spoil our taste for work.

First we have to identify what those behaviors are. That’s what this video is all about…

In this video post, Chuck Dymer compares the leadership of cultural change to the demolition of a building. It’s done brick by brick and beam by beam. In other words, cultural change is brought about step by step…