vision | Coach David J. Greer

Doing Their Best

Post author:David Greer
Post published:December 13, 2018
Post category:Growth
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What if you assumed that those people who work for you are in fact doing their best? As leaders we are quick to judge those we lead and when they don’t fit what we think they should be doing, we often get resentful and angry.

I believe that most of us are doing the best we can. Our challenge as leaders is to help challenge those we lead to grow into what is the next level of “best they can do.” If they are not willing to become the next best version of themselves, kindly send them on their way to somewhere else where their attributes will be appreciated. (more…)

Synergy

Post author:David Greer
Post published:March 22, 2018
Post category:Growth Leadership
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When a group of people get a sailboat to sail to its full potential, such as when you are racing, you have to come together. This is my definition of synergy–the cooperation of two or more people to create something greater than the sum of the individuals.

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What Happened to Email?

Post author:David Greer
Post published:February 13, 2014
Post category:Communication
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Back around 1985, Bob Green and I invented host-based email. We were probably two of a few hundred people who came up with the idea of electronic email. At that time, many businesses had computers that employees were logging into every day and those computers were becoming powerful enough to host email applications.

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Pursuing A Vision

Post author:David Greer
Post published:November 21, 2013
Post category:Leadership Strategy
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Great businesses combine three critical ingredients:

Leaders who can paint a vision for the future of the business.
The right people who can work together.
Day to day execution that moves the people together in the right direction to the vision.

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Childhood Inspiration Continues

Post author:David Greer
Post published:October 26, 2013
Post category:Business Leadership
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We were recently in Florida for the American Trucking Association annual conference in Orlando, Florida. After working much of the weekend at the conference, Karalee and I took a day off to explore NASA’s Cape Kennedy. We are both science geeks—after all I asked Karalee out after a Chem 120 lab in our first year at the University of British Columbia.

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