Leadership Lesson: It’s important to constantly assess and consider both what you take in in the short-term and how it contributes to your long-term plans and satisfaction, ensuring you’re not giving away too much, or gaining little or nothing in return.
Do you want to be happy? Or do you want to be satisfied? Is there a…
Leadership Lesson: Most of what we are capable of in this world, whether in our lives or careers, can only take place if we are proactive in pursuing it, refusing to wait for the right circumstances and luck to present themselves.
In this previous post, I introduced this current series which covers a top-ten…
Leadership Lesson: Step back and recognize when you’re feeling stuck and the steps you need to take to refocus your attention, revise your plan, and push forward.
How do you recharge when you feel like you’re stuck and paralyzed while working toward your goals?
There will be times in the course of our work and lives when we might end…
Leadership Lesson: There are lessons everywhere — visuals and scenarios from which you can draw the deepest meaning and best examples of how to be a leader and bring out the best in yourself and others.
And, just like that, the fever is over, the games have ended, and the new champion…
Leadership Lesson: Your definition of success should begin by determining where you need to position yourself in your various environments to have your value realized and tapped into.
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…
Leadership Lesson: How do you use the questions here to help bring out what other people are thinking and what they can contribute?
Ideas may exist in people who surround you, untapped, ready for the taking.
They can be harnessed from knowledge others are holding onto while they flesh out the details, knowledge…
Leadership Lesson: Be able to understand how and what it is you can draw out of other people in the form of ideas and contributions.
One of the top markers of effective leadership is the ability to harness the resources at one’s disposal. That can mean anything from the physical resources of machinery, warehouses, and factories, to the physical…
Leadership Lessons: It falls upon each of us to keep in mind and share with others, especially students, the tips we’ve learned on our leadership and development path.
If given the opportunity, what tips would you ask students — or anyone younger than you, for that matter — to consider as they make their…
Leadership Lesson: Beyond being in the position to gets things done, we also serve as a representative of our organization, where we are the face and ambassador of our group’s quality, ability, and reputation.
How do others outside of your organization view you? Not your leadership, not your organization, not your workforce. YOU.
Leadership, for the most part,…
Developing yourself is about learning and drawing knowledge from books, experiences, and other sources, refining the information and organizing it in such a way that it both suits and reflects you.
When it comes to retaining lessons learned from other people, that knowledge, which contributes to the overall package of who you are, should not all necessarily be drawn…
Leadership Lesson: It’s vital to understand the culture and environment you’re coming into but even more important to maintain your objective, critical lens through which to objectively analyze it.
In coming into any endeavor or environment, it goes without saying that the more information one has, the quicker he or she can get up to speed so they feel comfortable making…
Leadership Lesson: Anyone with any semblance of leadership development or aspirations needs to realize and determine how much of their environment falls in their hands and their ownership.
That question isn’t meant to be answered in terms of legal ownership or number of shares owned. The question means to ask specifically, How much of the outcomes of your organization, team,…
This week, German Chancellor Angela Merkel allowed a snap vote in Germany’s Parliament on the legalization of gay marriage, although she opposed the issue based on her beliefs and it was a foregone conclusion that the supporting votes would have the majority.
Regardless of her own personal stance reflected in her “no” vote, and the anti-gay marriage…
Leadership Lesson: Leaders should always consider their own effectiveness, the needs of their environment, and their respect for the opinions of others when it comes to their longevity and when it’s time to step down.
At what point does – and should — a leader decide to step aside for the best interest of their…
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Travis Kalanick and Uber have had a hell of a year, both inside and outside of his role of CEO of the company. But now that the founder is…
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