Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 29, 2016
Practice doesn’t make perfect, but it does make us better. Building a championship team takes practice. From the greatest NBA season ever played by the ‘95-’96 Chicago Bulls (72-10 with a Championship) to the international dominance of the Spanish soccer team from 2007-2012, there’s one common thread…. Practice. As a leader, the best compliment is growth and improvement in your team.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 30, 2016
361 days ago, I pressed “publish” to bring the first Lead Change post of 2016, the January 2016 Leadership Development Carnival , to life. In the intervening days, we have produced 269 blog posts, including 12 Leadership Development Carnivals. We have received 750 comments. Maybe you were one of the readers who commented on a post and/or shared it via social media.
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Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 28, 2016
Happy Holidays to one and all, however you choose to celebrate during this festive time of year! One of my personal holiday traditions involves watching the many films based on A Christmas Carol , the Charles Dickens classic short story, as often as possible and with an open mind. According to Wikipedia, the original book published in 1843 has always been available in print form and the story itself has been filmed and re-imagined over the years.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 23, 2016
Mom told us breakfast was the most important meal of the day. Andrew Carnegie told us that “if you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” There is some debate these days over whether breakfast is so important, but there is no debate about goals. I am not saying that you don’t know that goals are important.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2016
In yesterday’s post , I shared eight things I know now, that I wish I had known when I had started my career. Today, I am sharing seven more: Be Interested in What’s Right, Not Who’s Right. I’ve seen too many talented people along the way focus their energy in all the wrong places, most commonly by obsessing over winning arguments. Intellectual Integrity is much more important than perceived Intellectual Prowess – which by the way is not automatically prescribed to the winner of an argument.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 21, 2016
I’m blessed enough to get the opportunity to speak at universities all over the country and the question I’m most often asked by students is, “What do you know now that you wish you knew, back then, when you started your career?”. I thought I’d share a response to this question in an attempt to serve any of the younger, or younger at heart, Lead Change readers.
Lead Change Blog
DECEMBER 20, 2016
If a movie had the role of “bar” in it, Sloppy Joe’s would win the Academy Award. It is situated in bar heaven—on Duval Street in the middle of Key West, Florida. It is dark, smelly, and loud. It is no diner with a bar; it is a bar with an attitude. Its walls have no doubt eavesdropped on countless propositions, provocations and predictions. The cracked mirror over the bathroom sink has reflected many inebriated promises never kept.
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