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Perhaps the biggest administrative part of leadership are these two duties

photo of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa's lobby Christmas decorations — a 15-year career in Resort Operations was left behind to follow a new, uncertain path

Perhaps the biggest administrative part of leadership are these two duties:

making decisions
trusting the decisions others make

The pitfall is waiting too long, waffling, worrying, and ultimately, not deciding – and getting left behind or becoming irrelevant.

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This month jeff noel is encouraging Mid Life Celebration readers to follow all five daily blogs about work life balance. To go in an instant from this money (career) blog to the HQ blog, just click -> go to Next Blog

The science of persuasion is something every great leader needs to hear

The science of persuasion is something every great leader ought to know. While the video is nearly 12 minutes long, it reveals six shortcuts. Who doesn’t embrace shortcuts?

In a world full of information overload, videos like this help us sort through the key points quickly, and in a fun way too.

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If I tell you you’ll never remember

: Big Brand System’s monthly webinars help folks make their websites rock (photo: Pamela Wilson’s Visual Buzz)

You’ve been noticing some website changes and it’s because I follow Big Brand System – for three reasons:

Pamela Wilson, founder, is someone I trust
She has expertise where I do not
She takes the complex and makes it very simple

And as April Fool’s day approaches, Mid Life Celebration’s story continues to evolve. Ken Burns speaks about manipulating stories. jeff noel speaks about manipulating our life ending, because we can.

And we can, if we focus on personal leadership. At the end of the day, it’s the one asset we completely control.

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Are nuance and subtlety the overlooked keys to success?

Picture of a man with extremely long hair from 15 years of growth — The last time he cut his hair was 15 years ago – there is neither subtlety, nuance, nor simplicity

Are nuance and subtlety the overlooked keys to success? Seth Godin even goes as far as to say simplicity may be wrongly replacing nuance. Interesting.

Maybe.

Maybe not.

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