Why Everyone Should Be A Better Leader: Three Core Qualities of Life and Leadership
Since 2008, I have proactively studied and practiced leadership. Sometimes I experience success, and other times failure. Regardless, these years have undoubtedly been a most exciting and harrowing period of my life working with people I care about in order to go great places. On this journey, periodically the question arises: Is becoming a better leader […]
What Is Your Strategy?
Six Principles for Creating a Winning Strategy Our vision answers: Where are we going? And our strategy answers: How do we get there? Can you concisely define these for your organization? Vision, then strategy. Both talked about all the time. Both missed or ignored most of the time. Today, I will help us make the […]
My Top 5 Questions for Alignment
In this article, I will share with you the exact questions I use with my inner circle in our biannual?evaluations. This is our time of aligning. In my previous post, I described why I prefer to use a narrative approach (versus a numerical one) to articulate how we?evaluate one another, our relationship, and our […]
The Secret to Dealing with Conflict
Just like a heart attack, when conflict starts it’s too late. Irreparable damage to the relationship has usually already occurred. Pain and drama engulfs our consciousness. And?our time and energy are consumed in the process. So how should we deal with conflict? We must deal with conflict just like I deal with heart attacks with […]
How to Grow Leaders
It is phenomenal how having healthy, capable leaders around you can make or break your leadership. So what can you do to ensure you have the best leaders around you? Here are ten points I have observed and applied to grow leaders around me. I have found these to be critical in my endeavor to […]
It’s About Their Leadership, Not Yours
More than two thousand years ago, the Chinese Philosopher Lao-Tzu?said this of great leaders: [blockquote text=’A leader is best when people barely know he exists…and when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, ?We did this ourselves.? – Lao-Tzu’ text_color=’#ffffff’ width=’95’ line_height=’undefined’ background_color=’#000000′ border_color=’#dba400′ show_quote_icon=’yes’ quote_icon_color=’#dba400′] As you and I zero […]
Five Poignant Points in the Life of a Leader
Sometimes we?get knocked down. Hard. Those of us in leadership need?to expect these times, learn from them, and stand again. Last year?a staff member left our team. She had only been with us for about three months, but still her departure hurt. I felt sad, even defeated. I had seen so much potential in her […]
15 Expectations of Your Inner Circle of Leaders
I aim to bring people close to me, my inner circle, who are healthy leaders, consummate professionals, and compassionate human beings. Before these people join my inner circle, I try my best to make certain they have the following traits and habits, or have the potential to reach them easily. I hope these will help […]
Don’t Expect to Lead Everyone Successfully
Are you disappointed in yourself because you aren’t able to lead a certain person or a group of people well? Perhaps you have little influence with your spouse or your family. Maybe you aren’t able to reach the team or organization you lead. I know the feeling. Like many who have had some success in […]
What the Ultimate Goal of Your Leadership Should Be
What is the ultimate goal of your leadership? Is it to increase your profits? To develop a better team? Or to create a stronger family? Maybe yours is to grow your organization, or to have happy clients, customers, or patients. When we?aspire to lead, we question the goal of our leadership from time to time, […]