Leadership Lesson: Recognizing, knowing, and keeping in mind why you’re doing something keeps you fueled and fired up in the fight and work for it.
In this previous post, I introduced this current series which covers a top-ten list of ideas I had provided to students at Quest 2017, a one-day summit…
Leadership Lesson: Sharing lessons ensures the continuity of the lessons, sharpens our own understanding, and allows us to improve the lessons through our own experiences.
Among all the other lessons we try to pass on to our kids, what are the leadership lessons we can pass on to our children to put them on the right path…
True leadership ability has no face. It has no title. Leadership isn’t limited to the few, but possible by the masses. It can be practiced by anyone.
Leadership is not about demonstrating power but encouraging it. Through that encouragement, it sets the tone and example for one’s environment, partners, colleagues, and acquaintances. It’s about being able to make the most out of…
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick posted a “Profound Apology” on the company’s website to atone for or, at least, begin atoning for his behavior in a video which surfaced of him berating an Uber driver, while he was a fare in the man’s car, who had challenged him…
Carrie Fisher’s uncompromising, unrelenting and defiant attitude, which was the core of her role as Princess Leia, a role she took on at the age of 19 in the Star Wars films, was mirrored in the later years of her life before she died at age 60.
Even though there was plenty…
How does your leadership transfer across endeavors?
How effective is it from one environment to the next, whether adjusting from your professional to personal or any other environment in which you might operate?
How does it compare across the worlds, environments, and circles of both your career and personal life?
Where do you stand on the Bridge of Leadership?
We’ll…
Leadership Lesson: It’s a mistake to only live and work in reactive mode to everything around us, when we should be working to prepare as best as possible to navigate our environments.
Leadership is about taking in and utilizing the resources around you, whether it is for a cause or mission greater than yourself, or…
Leadership is so many things. There are so many facets to it, examples of it, and sources for it.
To be clear: Leadership is not solely limited to someone in a position of power.
Leaders traditionally might have been seen as those that take, dole out, and build their power. But leadership is the opposite. It…
Leadership Lesson: You can’t treat someone how they want to be treated (The Platinum Rule) without first working with them effectively enough (The Golden Rule) to learn how they want to be treated.
Although The Self 60 – Professional Development Mind/Set is numbered, the list is not necessarily listed in rank or priority…
Free lessons in leadership exist in the everyday. They’re everywhere; you just need (and want) to look around and take stock of them.
Again, leadership exists everywhere and not just in those who have official titles or positions of “leadership” such as management. So look to the actions of those around you whose actions and demeanor work in tandem…
This time of year we all get sentimental. The season is about family, friends, and realizing the true value of what we have as we close out the year, where toward the end of that celebratory season we’re then faced with what we will take on in New Year’s resolutions.
Giving thanks stems from appreciation, which stems from acknowledgement, which stems from taking stock and assessing what’s taking place.
Aside from thinking about and giving to others around the holiday season, and hopefully throughout the year in general, we should also take the time to consider where we are, where we’ve been, and where we want to go in both our personal lives and our careers. Granted, we should be doing…
How are your #listening skills? How do you feel your approach change based on what the speaker might need? It never hurts to consider and understand how you might fare in these various scenarios. #listening #communication #community sloanreview.mit.edu/article/b…
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