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Stop Working For – Give Yourself To

Leadership Freak

APRIL 19, 2024

Thoreau wrote, "The cost of a thing is the amount. of life which is required to be exchanged for it. When you give yourself "for" something you work for gratification. When you give yourself "to" something you lead with purpose. Two things leaders give themselves to.

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The 4 Universal Factors of Success

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Confusion about the path to success obscures the obvious. There are four factors of success. Not three. Not five. Four and only four. The path is the same for everyone.

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How to Enable People to Step Up

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

One leader said, "I realized my supervisors weren't supervising because I was doing it for them. Don't handicap people. Be the reason people step up.

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13 Things You Can Do with Words

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thoughtless words are muddy roads. You can smooth the way with things you say. Or your words make life hard for others and painful for you.

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How to Help Others Learn from Experience

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 15, 2024

Experience isn’t the best teacher. My friend melted his siding by grilling close to his house. He won’t do that again. Only fools melt their siding two times. Here's how to help others learn from experience.

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How to Avoid the 3 Biggest Mistakes Leaders Don’t Need to Make

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Mistakes are inevitable, but some are avoidable. The worst mistake is the one you didn’t need to make. I list 3 big mistakes leaders don't need to make. I wonder what you can add.

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One-On-Ones: 7 Powerful Phrases to Use

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You spend large amounts of time talking. Words are hammers. Understand, embrace, and increase the impact you have during one-on-ones. 7 powerful phrases. 10 powerful questions.

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3 Conditional Statements Smart People Never Say

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Words have trajectory. Here are three conditional statements that stand between you and the life you hope to enjoy.

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5 Simple Rules for the Day

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Treat yourself with more respect than a squirrel. Stop chasing the next nut. Choose how you show up. 5 simple rules.

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How to Define Deadweight

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Teams rise when you ditch deadweight. One bad apple lowers performance by 30 to 40 percent. How to define deadweight.

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3 Ways to Lead for Growth

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 29, 2023

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Everyone Wants 5 Things

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 9, 2023

At the core, everyone wants 5 things. The only differences between us are how we describe and pursue what we want. Why leaders care that everyone wants 5 things.

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The Power to Say No

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 7, 2023

Saying yes when you should say no lets others steer your life. "You have to be good at saying no and picking the things that really matter." - Warren Buffet Where does the power to say no come from?

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How to Face Resistance to Your Great Ideas

Leadership Freak

JULY 5, 2023

You can't lead if resistance from others defeats you. Every leader needs to learn how to overcome resistance. This post provides four actionable steps you can take to lower resistance and strengthen connection. Learn 12 questions you can use today.

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4 Ways Leaders Instill Vitality and Defeat Uncertainty

Leadership Freak

MAY 8, 2023

Uncertainty is as certain as a sunrise. Vitality is uncommon. Vitality is energy to thrive in difficulty. 4 Ways leaders instill vitality: #1. Use uncertainty. You give power to things you resist.

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3 Ways Remarkable Leaders Put Themselves First

Leadership Freak

APRIL 27, 2023

Remarkable leaders put themselves second. But only fools sacrifice their future to make transitory purchases. It’s deadly to put others first when you should put yourself first.

5 “Dangers” of Psychological Safety

Leadership Freak

APRIL 11, 2023

I married my high school sweetheart. Neither of us had any idea what we were getting into. It’s been delightful until this afternoon.

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3 Reasons Variety is Essential

Leadership Freak

MARCH 23, 2023

Common wisdom deceives you. You’re boring because some knucklehead said: You fall behind if you continue doing the same things, even when you’re doing great today. 3 reasons variety is essential: #1.

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5 Ways to Exploit the Circle of Life

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The playfulness of life is seen in a boy feeding hay to cows. The circle of life was petulant on the farm. Every spring the fields turned green. In summer we made hay.

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10 Dynamic Job Interview Questions

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 24, 2023

Job interviews are like trying to predict rain a year from now. You have five tools to predict future performance: education, work history, personal references, personality assessments, and drill-down job interview questions.

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5 Questions for Considering the Alternative

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Summers passed slow when I was riding my bike with friends. Those days feel like yesterday. One season blurs into the next. Time gains momentum.

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The Heart of Time Management

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Everything feels urgent to a person without priorities. You master life when you master time management. When everything is a priority, you run around with your hair on fire.

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5 Simple Ways to Improve Meetings

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Meetings are dead ends when talking creates the illusion of action. 5 simple ways to improve meetings: #1. Determine purpose. Cancel the meeting when you don’t know why you’re meeting. Discussions waste time.

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7 Ways to Never Feel the Imposter Syndrome Again

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The imposter syndrome is feeling like you don’t belong at the table, even though there’s good evidence you do. The imposter syndrome includes nagging fear of being found out.

The 7 Most Confusing Contradictions All Leaders Face

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Leading isn’t like a box of chocolates. It’s not all sweet. Leading is filled with confusing contradictions.

The Insane Side of Self-Belief

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Self-belief is dangerous. G.K. Chesterton said, “Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves…The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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Leaders Love the Most

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Leaders love the most. Haters ruin the most. “All that I hope to say in books, all that I ever hope to say, is that I love the world.” E.B.

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A Bad Boss is Like a Drunk Skunk

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 25, 2022

A bad boss spews stink like a drunk skunk. Bad bosses don’t smell their own stink and team members don’t tell them they reek. A malodorous boss thinks stink is sweet.

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SATURDAY SAGE: 7 Good Things About Skillful Quitting

Leadership Freak

JULY 30, 2022

Quitting is pathetic, impulsive, and caving in. It results in a storm of defeat. Or at least that’s what people think. Familiar stories: An eleven-year-throws his ball glove on the ground, “I quit”.

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What if You Smelled Like Your Attitude

Leadership Freak

JULY 11, 2022

When someone has a bad attitude, we say their attitude stinks. What if you literally smelled like a skunk when you had a bad attitude? Ellysan, one of our granddaughters, couldn’t pronounce skunk.

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4 Questions to Ask at the End of the Week for Self-Reflection

Leadership Freak

JULY 8, 2022

One week flows unchanged into the next until you ask different questions. Good intentions fade. Old patterns hang on until you adopt a new approach.

How to Move from Talking to Action in 10 Steps

Leadership Freak

JUNE 17, 2022

Parents say, “If I’ve told you once, I’ve told you a thousand times.” Frustrated leaders ask, “How many times have we talked about this?” Talking isn’t working when: Problems persist.

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4 Hard Things Leaders Do

Leadership Freak

MAY 25, 2022

The hard things leaders do make them glorious. A bird in flight is glorious. There’s glory in just being human. Stars at night sing glory. Effortless glory is wonderful.

How a Successful Woman Entrepreneur Began Without Investors or Ambition

Leadership Freak

APRIL 29, 2022

Sometimes ambition finds us. I talked with a woman entrepreneur who didn’t begin with a vision to become an entrepreneur.

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The Positive Value of Negative Emotions

Leadership Freak

APRIL 7, 2022

Pretending everything is great is stupid. Everything is never great. Positivity that excludes negativity is illusion. You flounder when you deny reality.

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3 Reasons You’re on a Team that Sucks

Leadership Freak

APRIL 4, 2022

Skill is not the best predictor of a team’s success. Teams that suck waste time, drain energy, and squander resources. You’ve been there.

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The BIG YES Accelerates Leadership

Leadership Freak

MARCH 9, 2022

Warren Buffett said, “The difference between successful people and very successful people is that very successful people say ‘no’ to almost everything.” But there is a danger.

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4 Ways to Reach Extraordinary

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Everest was identified as the highest point above sea level in 1852. 70 years later, George Mallory and others attempted to reach the summit and failed (1922).

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Taking Time Off isn’t the Answer

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 27, 2022

Taking time off isn’t the answer when you don’t know how to live. A four-day workweek is pointless for miserable people. Do you live to work or work to live?

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Two Things You Can Do that Aren’t Stupid

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 4, 2022

Everyone does stupid things. Thankfully, most of us don’t do stupid things on national television. Last Sunday, Terry Bradshaw did a stupid thing when he joked about Antonio Brown (AB) on national television.

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How Managers Become Leaders

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Only 1 in 10 managers actually have the talent to manage. But lacing on leadership shoes is like discovering you’re lactose intolerant after devouring a container of ice cream.

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The Secret to Managing How you Feel

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Sometimes I feel jazzed. Other times I’m just dopey. I come alive while I’m doing something. Lying in bed drains my vitality. The less I do, the less I feel like doing.

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Victims: The People Leaders Deal with Everyday

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Self-destructive responses to life multiply like flies on roadkill. The worst response is pervasive and sinister. It’s the lie of victimhood. This lie, like breathing, usually goes unnoticed.

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The Secret to Magnificent Success

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Bob Burg and John David Mann wrote the following in, “The Go-Giver Influencer.

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Stop Working For – Give Yourself To

The 4 Universal Factors of Success

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How to Enable People to Step Up

13 Things You Can Do with Words

How to Help Others Learn from Experience

How to Avoid the 3 Biggest Mistakes Leaders Don’t Need to Make

One-On-Ones: 7 Powerful Phrases to Use

3 Conditional Statements Smart People Never Say

5 Simple Rules for the Day

How to Define Deadweight

3 Ways to Lead for Growth

Everyone Wants 5 Things

The Power to Say No

How to Face Resistance to Your Great Ideas

4 Ways Leaders Instill Vitality and Defeat Uncertainty

3 Ways Remarkable Leaders Put Themselves First

5 “Dangers” of Psychological Safety

3 Reasons Variety is Essential

5 Ways to Exploit the Circle of Life

10 Dynamic Job Interview Questions

5 Questions for Considering the Alternative

The Heart of Time Management

5 Simple Ways to Improve Meetings

7 Ways to Never Feel the Imposter Syndrome Again

The 7 Most Confusing Contradictions All Leaders Face

The Insane Side of Self-Belief

Leaders Love the Most

A Bad Boss is Like a Drunk Skunk

SATURDAY SAGE: 7 Good Things About Skillful Quitting

What if You Smelled Like Your Attitude

4 Questions to Ask at the End of the Week for Self-Reflection

How to Move from Talking to Action in 10 Steps

4 Hard Things Leaders Do

How a Successful Woman Entrepreneur Began Without Investors or Ambition

The Positive Value of Negative Emotions

3 Reasons You’re on a Team that Sucks

The BIG YES Accelerates Leadership

4 Ways to Reach Extraordinary

Taking Time Off isn’t the Answer

Two Things You Can Do that Aren’t Stupid

How Managers Become Leaders

The Secret to Managing How you Feel

Victims: The People Leaders Deal with Everyday

The Secret to Magnificent Success

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