Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

What happens when you bring a new idea to higher ups? You hear reasons why it won’t work. People often defend the status quo, even though the present is dissatisfying.

Objective 211

Objective How To 211

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Challenge people to do things they never thought they could do. #1. Relationship: Caring relationship is the environment of growth. Find things to like about the people around you.

How To 185

How To Environment Leadership Development Development 185

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Mitchell Warner’s observation that humble leaders are intensely curious about others makes me wonder why I’m not more humble. I’ve been called the ‘question man’ all my life.

Influence 185

Influence Leadership Leadership Development Development 185

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I’ve been in some meetings that I couldn’t wait to end. I’ve led a few myself. Five things that make nearly any meeting great: #1. Kind candor and courageous transparency abound.

Succession 168

Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 168

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I’ve been in some meetings that I couldn’t wait to end. I’ve led a few myself. Five things that make nearly any meeting great: #1. Kind candor and courageous transparency abound.

Succession 168

Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 168

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

I’ve been in some meetings that I couldn’t wait to end. I’ve led a few myself. Five things that make nearly any meeting great: #1. Kind candor and courageous transparency abound.

Succession 184

Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 184

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Playing safe feels wiser than stepping out, unless the house is on fire. You get cold feet when the path ahead matters. Delay feels good when it’s time to put skin in the game.

Succession 178

Succession Leadership 178

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Failure to bring up disappointing performance is cruel, not compassionate. Apart from intervention, negative trajectory accelerates. When silence is painful, not golden: Silence when performance disappoints prolongs pain, increases stress, and affirms mediocrity. Eventually. pain increases to the point that it overcomes reluctance to address uncomfortable issues.

Stress 181

Stress Succession Leadership Development Development 181

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Some leaders are painful to be around. To be honest, sometimes you and I are the pain. We’ve all been the leader others complain about. The 5 most painful leaders to be around: Nit-pickers.

Succession 169

Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 169

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Some leaders are painful to be around. To be honest, sometimes you and I are the pain. We’ve all been the leader others complain about. The 5 most painful leaders to be around: Nit-pickers.

Succession 169

Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 169

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Some leaders are painful to be around. To be honest, sometimes you and I are the pain. We’ve all been the leader others complain about. The 5 most painful leaders to be around: Nit-pickers.

Succession 180

Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 180

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Squeaky-wheel leaders spend too much time focused on broken stuff. The seduction of squeaky-wheel leadership makes confused leaders feel important. But, ultimately it means: Failure outshines progress. Poor performers take priority over top.

Leadership 164

Leadership How To Environment Succession 164

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Squeaky-wheel leaders spend too much time focused on broken stuff. The seduction of squeaky-wheel leadership makes confused leaders feel important. But, ultimately it means: Failure outshines progress. Poor performers take priority over top.

Leadership 164

Leadership How To Environment Succession 164

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Squeaky-wheel leaders spend too much time focused on broken stuff. The seduction of squeaky-wheel leadership makes confused leaders feel important. But, ultimately it means: Failure outshines progress. Poor performers take priority over top.

Leadership 175

Leadership How To Environment Succession 175

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

When you screw up, someone didn’t follow through. When others screw up they procrastinated. It’s not if, but how you lie to yourself. You fail because of circumstances. Others fail because of character.* They lack initiative. They don’t have what it takes. The lies leaders tell themselves: Affirm themselves. Disaffirm others. Close minds.

Follow-up 186

Follow-up Leadership Development Development Leadership 186

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Unexpressed gratitude is ungratefulness to those around you. An unexpected gratitude list for leaders: Celebrate the circumstances you’re tempted to complain about. Challenges teach you more than ease.

Leadership Development 182

Leadership Development Development Leadership 182

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

When people think of you, are their hearts filled with gratitude? If they are, it’s because you poured value into their lives. Image source 7 principles of generosity, gratitude, and influence: The opportunity to give indicates you have already received. Servant-leaders ask, “What’s in it for others?

Servant Leader 180

Servant Leader Influence Leadership Development Development 180

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Successful leaders see the dark and the bright. Lousy leaders only see the dark. Teams shrivel under the bitterness of ungrateful leadership. Image source 7 sources of ungratefulness in leadership: Dissatisfaction.

Team 180

Team Leadership Succession Leadership Development 180

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Growth answers death, decline, and disappointment. Growth is: Test driving behaviors that feel ‘wrong’ Doing old things in new ways. Letting go. Change. The world changes when you change. Part 1: #1.

Strategy 175

Strategy Leadership Development Development Leadership 175

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

What’s so inviting about seeing weakness in others? Leaders who see strength in others build doors in walls. From part 1: 12 ways to ignite and maximize growth in others #1. Speak directly to the heart. #2. Point out where people don’t serve themselves well. #3. Provide opportunity to reflect. #4. Come along side gently after failure.

Skills 191

Skills Leadership Development Development Leadership 191

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The things you do alone, with few exceptions, are not leadership. Busyness doesn’t make you a leader, even though leaders work hard. Not a leader: Sign papers in your office.

Project 185

Project Leadership Succession Leadership Development 185

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

Frustration with teams and organizations is the result of avoiding questions that many leaders don’t dare to ask. Successful leaders ask forward-facing questions that define a future distinct from the past.

How To 191

How To Succession Team Organization 191

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Controlling-leaders end up with compliant teams. Most leaders have control issues. On a scale of 1 to 10, how controlling are you? Just go with your gut. Suppose you’re an 8 on the controlling-leader-scale.

Team 185

Team Leadership Development Development Leadership 185

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

All that you hope to accomplish as a leader depends on igniting and maximizing growth in others. Learn what makes people tick if you dream of maximizing their growth. #1.

Leadership Development 177

Leadership Development Development Leadership 177

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Ego’s cry is, “What about me?” Who will listen to you, if you become a leader who makes others feel they matter? Ego Leaders with big egos overestimate their abilities.

Leadership Development 189

Leadership Development Development Leadership 189

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

It’s not necessary to have ambition. It’s just unusual when leaders don’t have it. Your better off acknowledging ambition than pretending you’re above it.

Motivation 174

Motivation Leadership Development Development Leadership 174

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Pushback makes you relevant and useful in high-stakes situations. Poor pushback: Emotional heat. Drama is distraction, even offense, to top leaders. Grudges.

Leadership Development 172

Leadership Development Development Leadership 172

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 19, 2016

You might be a great leader if you stopped shooting yourself in the foot. 5 self-defeating leadership behaviors: Asking too many questions about the past.

Leadership 181

Leadership Influence Succession Leadership Development 181

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

A chicken without a head is active but not productive. Productivity is about being effective with your time, energy, resources, and talent.

Productivity 179

Productivity Products Tips Energy 179

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Failure to bring up disappointing performance is cruel, not compassionate. Apart from intervention, negative trajectory accelerates.

Stress 168

Stress Succession Leadership Development Development 168

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Failure to bring up disappointing performance is cruel, not compassionate. Apart from intervention, negative trajectory accelerates.

Stress 168

Stress Succession Leadership Development Development 168

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

You look for an escape when blabbing leaders arrive. But a leader skilled at powerful conversations is a thing of beauty.

Power 192

Power Skills 192