 Lonnie
Pacelli is an internationally recognized
author and is president of
Leading on the Edge International.
Lonnie has over 20 years leadership
expertise as an executive, project
manager, developer, tester, analyst,
trainer, consultant, and business owner.
During his 11 years at Accenture he
built leadership expertise consulting
with many Fortune 500 companies
including Motorola, Hughes Electronics,
and Northrop-Grumman. During his nine
years at Microsoft he continued building
leadership expertise through development
of some of Microsoft’s internal systems,
led their Corporate Procurement group,
managed their Corporate Planning group,
and led company-wide initiatives on
Continuous Fiscal Improvement and
Training Process Optimization. He has
successfully implemented projects
ranging from complex IT systems to
process re-engineering to business
strategies.
Lonnie is also an
established author of
The Project
Management Advisor: 18 Major Project
Screw-ups, and How to Cut Them off at
the Pass and
The Truth About Getting
Your Point Across, which explains how to
communicate more powerfully in any
situation: with executives, peers,
subordinates, customers, partners,
investors, or anyone else. He has also
developed The Amazon Shorts
Small
Business Made Simple Series designed to
provide easy to understand, prescriptive
advice for anyone who is contemplating
or running a small business. Lonnie's
next book project will be an
Amazon Shorts series on the rise and
fall of the
Antichrist.
See Lonnie's leadership article
posted on this site entitled
The Seven Deadly Sins of
Leadership.
Lonnie Pacelli has
also developed The Amazon Shorts
Leadership Made Simple Series to provide
easy to understand, prescriptive advice
for anyone who is put in a position to
lead others. This series is easy
to understand Planning, Process and
People advice. |
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The
Leadership Made Simple Series -
Planning, Process and People Leadership
introduces the series and provides an
in-depth discussion of the planning,
process, and people attributes that
every great leader must possess. Drop
any one of these attributes and a leader
goes from being great to being just
marginal. If you need a concise
definition of what a well-rounded leader
needs to succeed, then this Amazon Short
is a must-read for you. |
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Be A Better
Planner |
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Pave That Dirt
Road! Set a Direction Your Team Will
Follow falls in the Planning
category and is for anyone who wants to
develop a direction that will inspire a
team into action. If your plans are
lackluster and don't motivate your team
to action, this Amazon Short can help
you develop a direction that will align
your team and get them moving in the
right direction fast. |
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I'm too Busy to
Plan! Strike the Balance Between
Planning and Doing falls
in the Planning category and is
for anyone who would like some nuggets
to help become a more effective planner.
If you spend either too little or too
much time planning, this Amazon Short
can help you right-size your planning
activities and get more things done day
in and day out. |
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I Suck at This!
Leverage Others to Get the Job Done
Better falls in the Planning
category and is for anyone who wants
some tried-and-true pointers on which
functions to leverage to third parties
and how to go about leveraging them in a
very practical and straightforward
manner. If you’re frustrated because
you’ve got too much to do and you’re not
sure how to go about getting others to
help you, this Amazon Short can help you
put a leveraging strategy in place,
better utilize your skill sets, and
deliver greater value back to your
organization. |
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Back Yourself
With The Best: Advisory Boards That Help
You Plan For Success falls in the
Planning category and is for anyone
who wants some simple strategies to
define and implement an advisory board.
It doesn’t matter whether you run a
small business, an organization inside
of a large organization, or chair a
non-profit committee; gleaning the
wisdom of others on a regular basis will
help give you ideas to make your job
easier and deliver better results. If
you want some quick tips on how to
develop an effective advisory board,
this Amazon Short can help you define
what you need, find great advisors, and
use them to deliver value to you and
your business. |
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Know When To Say
When: Finding True Work/life Balance
falls in the Planning category
and is for anyone who feels their
work/life balance is out of kilter and
wants to lower their overall stress
level by better balancing the work and
non-work activities. The key to
achieving better work/life balance is to
not increase the amount of stress in
your life by putting more into the
“life” side of the equation; it’s
moderating both sides of the scales to
reduce your overall stress level. If you
want to get better work/life balance
without increasing your overall stress
level, this Amazon Short can help you
put the things in place to get better
balance through moderation and keep your
stress level in check. |
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Be A Better
Process Leader |
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From Good to
Good Enough - Get More Done By Knowing
When to Stop falls in the Process
category and is for anyone who wants to
be more effective at getting things
done. If you tend to be a perfectionist
or are prone to “polishing the apple”
too much on your tasks, this Amazon
Short can help you meet the expectations
of your customer and make the most of
your resources. |
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Check out
My New Typewriter! Ease into the
Technology Age falls in the
Process category and is for anyone who
wants to be better about using
technology to improve their overall
effectiveness. Well-implemented
technology can be a massive time saver
and enable you to deliver exponentially
greater value back to your business.
Poorly thought out technology can not
only be frustrating and bothersome, it
can significantly hamper (or kill) your
business. If you want to get savvier on
how technology can help you be more
effective, this Amazon Short will help
you understand how to implement
technologies and deliver value in a
practical and effective manner. |
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The Perfect
Brainstorm: Getting The Most Out Of
Brainstorming Sessions falls in the
Process category and is for
anyone who wants some guiding principles
on planning and executing brainstorming
sessions. Your attendees could be
corporate managers, non-profit
volunteers, or university students.
Regardless of the purpose, well-executed
brainstorming sessions can yield some
tremendous nuggets and generate passion
and excitement among your team. If you
want some quick tips on how to plan and
execute a brainstorming session, this
Amazon Short can help you get off on the
right foot and generate the great ideas
your business needs |
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We Must Stop
Meeting Like This! Meetings That Deliver
Results falls in the Process
category and is great reading for anyone
who has to plan and manage meetings.
Running meetings isn’t brain surgery; it
just takes a bit of planning, some
structure during and after the meeting,
and an awareness of what is actually
happening during the meeting. If you
want to improve your meeting management
skills, this Amazon Short will help you
put some techniques in place to run
great meetings and get great results |
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Winning the Battle
and the War: Execution Techniques which
Drive Success falls in the
Process category and is for anyone
who wants to learn some practical
attributes which great execution leaders
possess. You can be an outstanding
communicator and a charismatic salesman,
but if you can’t deliver the results
then you will fall in the “marginal
leader” category. If you want some quick
tips on how to execute for success, this
Amazon Short can help you move up the
curve to being a great leader. |
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Be A
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The Leadership
Greenhouse: How Great Leaders Grow Great
Leaders
falls in the People
category and is for anyone who wants
some basic tips on growing the next
generation of leaders in his or her
organization. You can be a great leader
in your own right and can possess many
of the most valued attributes which make
leaders great. However, if you aren’t
taking responsibility to grow future
leaders for your organization then
you’re simply not fulfilling one of your
core responsibilities as a leader, which
is to keep the leadership pipeline full
of great future leaders. If you want
advice on how to cultivate the next
generation of leaders for your
organization, this Amazon Short can help
you be a master leadership gardener and
grow a greenhouse full of outstanding
leaders for tomorrow. |
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Why Don't They
Respect Me? - Six Tried and True
Techniques to Get Teams to Want to
Follow You falls in the
People category and is for anyone who
wants to be a leader who people will
follow because they want to, not because
they have to. If you've had difficulty
getting a team to march to your
drumbeat, this Amazon Short can help you
put some techniques in place which will
help solidify your reputation as a great
people leader. |
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Can You Make a 2
A.M. Meeting? Managing Virtual Teams to
Success falls in the
People category and is for anyone faced
with leading a cross-organizational team
to solve a specific problem. Many
leaders have been successful when
leading their own organization but have
experienced difficulty when attempting
to lead those outside of their
organization. The difference is that
great leaders are able to lead virtual
teams because the team members want to
follow him because he is credible and
the team respects him. If you want to
build the skills to help you lead a
virtual team more effectively, this
Amazon Short can help you sharpen your
virtual team leadership skills and get
those big jobs done. |
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Don’t Throw in the
Towel; Throw Down the Gauntlet!
Challenging Your Team to Achieve Great
Performance falls
in the People category and is for
anyone who wants to step up the
performance level on a team from just
marginal performance to great
performance. Many times we as leaders
either underestimate what teams can
deliver or have unrealistic expectations
about what a team is able to do.
Therefore, either the team members plod
along to meet the lower expectations, or
throw their hands up in despair because
of unrealistic expectations. If you want
to challenge your team to achieve great
performance, this Amazon Short can help
you put the right strategies in place to
move your team from merely marginal
performance to great performance. |
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If You Build It
They Will Succeed: Team Building Tips
for Winning Teams
falls in the People category and
is for leaders who wants to improve the
value of team-building events. It would
be great if we could just sprinkle pixie
dust on our teams to get them to work
well together. Unfortunately, unless you
live in a Walt Disney cartoon this just
doesn’t happen. Teams need help in
working well together and require the
right blend of team-building, problem
solving, and having fun together to make
the leap from a marginal team to a
high-performance team. If you want to
structure team-building events that
provide value to your team and
contribute to your overall team-building
strategy, then this Amazon Short can
help you meet your objective. |
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See more on
Lonnie Pacelli at
www.leadingonedge.com
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