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April,
2005 Welcome
to Leadership Hand™, a monthly e-newsletter To ensure receipt, please add our e-mail address "Info@" plus our domain name to your e-mail address book. 1. The Green Spring Dairy Crate: Reducing Drag It sounds unlikely, doesn't it? That a dark green, plastic dairy crate could be a drain on my business performance. But it was… I won't say how I inherited it. That might cast aspersions on the family member who…ahem… borrowed it from Green Spring Dairy in Maryland. (After all, one might argue, they deliver them to your door don't they? In fact, you could say they are expecting you to make personal use of them.) I put it in the car trunk not just with the intention of returning it but the need to do so. And every time I opened that trunk, and more times during my commutes around the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area than I'd like to admit--that crate came to mind. Not only came to mind: I felt guilty! What if, heaven forbid, I should have an accident and someone found the "goods" in my trunk? I imagined people saying things like "She always seemed like such a nice woman. I never would have guessed…The shame!" One day, to my great joy, I saw a Green Spring Dairy delivery truck parked outside a hotel loading dock where I was attending a meeting. I wrote a note--I don't know why, I just did--and left the crate at the driver's door. Immediately I felt lighter, as if I'd taken off a heavy winter coat. I could have sworn that the day got brighter too. I went back to my office and easily made several important calls that I'd been deferring. Innocent little baggage. That's all. Yet for maybe a year, I endured an unnecessary and ridiculous drag on my well-being. Silly, maybe--but true: that plastic crate was impacting my business performance.
Here's to Reducing
Drag! Beth Hand © Copyright 2007, Beth Hand. Beth Hand, MBA helps leaders increase their effectiveness and satisfaction, now and for the future. She can be reached at (+1) 703.820.8074 or via her website www.leadershiphand.com. 2. Executives in Career Transition It's Spring!
For executives who want to speed the career transition process,
until we offer our next event in the Richmond, visit my colleague
and fellow ExecuNet facilitator Peter McCarthy and his site at www.careertran.com
for events in the Washington, D.C. area. Hand Associates
is the host for Execunet executive networking meetings in alliance
with DBM (formerly Drake Beam Morin), a global provider of strategic
HR solutions. If you are living in or traveling to Richmond, Virginia,
check our web site for details www.leadershiphand.com/resources. 3. Reprint Permission This is a copyrighted publication. You are welcome to reprint an issue on a non-exclusive basis provided you:
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Identify
your dairy crate--what's that nagging, sticky, little thing in your
personal or business life?--something resolvable that's outstanding.
It might be making a simple change to your investment portfolio,
finally setting an appointment to counsel an employee about to derail,
or ??? Do yourself a favor--go resolve it and watch what happens
with even the tiniest reduction in drag!|
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