Wes Saade – Page 33

Leadership

Great Leaders Know This Word: Together

Together.?When leaders embrace the ethos of this powerful word, they position their team for greatness.? Wise leaders?bring others with them and?genuinely believe that working?together, alongside others?is the only way to greatness. They don’t position themselves?above everyone else, like some medieval king, issuing orders and judgments from their high throne. True leaders desire to scale mountains […]

Leadership

Second Anniversary & Update

We are celebrating our second anniversary! Thank you for allowing me to be a part of your leadership journey for the last two years. On September 9th, 2012 I published my first Aspire blog post, which I wrote while I was traveling to Manhattan. Leading up to that first post, the website had been ready […]

Leadership

How to Turn Defeat Into Victory

It was mid-1942. All of continental Europe was under the Nazi flag. The Soviet Union was under a violent attack, and its armies were in retreat. The United Kingdom had withstood many attacks, but was reeling from the German war machine. The United States had just entered the war, but had not experienced much military […]

Purpose

A Letter Home

In this post, I will share a more personal message than what I usually write. At age fifteen, I immigrated to the United States of America. I wish I had kept a diary of the day I arrived. I only remember one thought from that day 23 years ago: how clean the streets were. Home […]

Leadership

Are You a Decisive or Deliberative Leader?

Outstanding leaders are decisive. They are not hesitant, reticent, or unsure. They are brave and daring. They are comfortable making bold decisions, even when they are not 100% sure success will follow.?Right? But how about being deliberative? Calm. Calculated. Intentional. Slow to act. Aren?t these good qualities in a leader as well? Be Decisive, But […]

Personal Development

The (Not So) Secret Ingredient to Thriving Relationships

Excellent leadership. Flourishing families. Enviable marriages. Thriving organizations. Effective teams. They all have one factor in common: healthy relationships. We ache when we have bad ones. We celebrate when we have good ones. So how do we keep them healthy? The (not so) secret ingredient to any relationship in your life is: time. To destroy […]

Personal Development

How to Capture Life-Changing Principles

A lot of people read with a pen or highlighter in hand. We eagerly mark what touches us. We finish the book and have a sense of accomplishment. Unfortunately, we typically recall a negligible?fraction of what we read or mark. We forget the rest, even those ideas or thoughts that gave us an ah-ha moment. […]

Leadership

Not Yet

Life is a series of challenges which we can answer in two ways:? I can?t, or not yet. I hope your answer is always: not yet. I Can?t When we fail, and fail repeatedly, we presume that we can?t master that which we are attempting. After all, there is evidence to prove that we can?t: […]

Purpose

Is There More to Life?

As a leader, you live life fully. You study, you work, you travel, you marry, you have kids, you accomplish, and you have fun. And often you get to a point in life where you ask yourself, Is this all there is? Allow me to share with you in this blog how I make sense […]

Purpose

Beyond Finding Your ?One Purpose”

For at least two decades, thought leaders have preached an idea that has become nearly sacred. It is that you must find your singular purpose in life. While I too have marched behind this bandwagon, and still agree with many of its principles, I would like to share with you a new perspective on this […]