Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 7, 2012
Image source If you grapple with self-doubt, keep reading. If you don’t grapple with it, you’re dangerous. Experts sing, “Believe in yourself,” However, unquestioned self-belief produces self-serving leaders who won’t adapt. Tom Petty captures the experience of many in, “Saving Grace,” when he sings, “You’re confident but not really sure.” Confident but not sure is [.].
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 4, 2012
Your job is bringing out the best in others by the way you interact with them. Well timed, well executed conversation change people’s lives. First: Determine and affirm aspirations and goals. Never have conversations about an individual’s life, strengths, weaknesses, or potential until you understand their hopes and dreams. People open their hearts to people who [.].
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Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 6, 2012
Image source Nice leaders finish last, if nice means agreeable. If all you do is agree, go home. You aren’t contributing. “There is a condition afflicting organizations that often goes undiagnosed because it is perceived as benign. In truth, it is corrosive. I call it the ‘the disease of niceness.’” John Baldoni in, “The Leaders [.].
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 3, 2012
I thought leading was getting people on my team. But, leading is getting on their team; grabbing their oar. But whose boat and whose oar? Whose boat: Leaders can’t help those going in the “wrong” direction. By wrong, I don’t mean morally wrong. I mean wrong for the organization. Get out of boats going in [.].
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 8, 2012
Image source The first pressing challenge of leadership is focusing on the thing that matters most. People matter most. In one sense, you are the person that matters most. Nurture and develop you as much as you nurture and develop others. In another sense, others matter most. You make others matter when you: Celebrate effort [.].
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
The real problem with problems is they draw you into the past. Fixing problems is focusing on something that already happened. The power of leadership is creating something new not fixing something old. One the other hand, preventing problems is a problem. Teams never win if defense is all they play. Organizational success is about doing [.].
Leadership Freak
NOVEMBER 9, 2012
Image source Everyone has a jerk-boss, sooner or later. Don’t worry if your boss is a jerk to everyone; worry if he singles you out. If the boss is a jerk to everyone, you have three options: Change him. (Good luck) Live with it. Change jobs. If you choose option #1, be prepared for option [.].
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