Great leaders are blessed with Wisdom – that magical combination of knowledge and experience that not only enables them to make the right decisions but also gives others the confidence that they should follow. Wisdom is not a blessing, it’s earned. It maybe mysterious but it’s not magic. Wise leaders…
112. Are you Surviving, or on a Mission?
Life is a series of struggles. That’s just how it is. How much better is it when those struggles have a purpose? Good Leadership training teaches the importance of setting your north star. Your compass bearing. Your mission… Good leaders know more – they recognize that choosing their mission is…
111. Are they thinking ahead?
Leadership isn’t a game – it has real impact on real people doing real jobs. How your people think will shape how your team performs. How you think shapes how your team thinks. We’re still talking about the game between Survival and Mission. Set your personal mission, choose your missions…
110. What are you thinking?
Learning isn’t difficult. Your brain is programmed to learn. If you don’t stop it. Some say learning a new job is difficult, that’s not true. Learning a new job is easy because you want to learn. You think about it a lot so you learn it. At least until you…
109. Why Why?
The most visionary and inspirational people I know have one thing in common. It’s not high position or material wealth… They all know their Mission. The world can be divided between survivors and dreamers. Survivors aren’t materially poor, they’re trapped in today and tomorrow. Dreamers don’t have their head in…
99. Are you pretending?
“ I trust you to do your job..” was a catchphrase in a business I was once in, intended to turn empowerment from a noun to a verb. Of course not every leader in that business trusted their own teams enough to actually empower them, but everyone in their teams…
85. What’s your real Mission?
Everyone has at least 2 Missions. Their team’s mission and their own. The one they talk about and the one they don’t. It could be that your own is so deep that you don’t know it’s there. Or don’t want to admit it’s there. Less like an elephant in the…
80. Are you a survivor?
The world is a tough place. Whether we’re conscious of it or not, we all try hard to survive – physically and emotionally. If you’re not conscious of staying alive, you’re privileged. Or maybe naïve. Survival as a leader might not involve physical safety but does include success, or maintaining…
78. The choice to Lead.
It’s true that citizens don’t choose royalty but they do choose their elected politicians. The twist comes on the question of choice. A modern monarch doesn’t choose to lead us any more than we choose them, while elected leaders choose themselves! All leaders who are selected or elected make an…