Leadership Freak

JANUARY 2, 2017

Those who seek happiness by avoiding discomfort, meet dissatisfaction along the way. Meaningful discomfort is part of happiness. 4 reasons people end up halfhearted and fully unhappy: Too many options.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2017

If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1. Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive. That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter.

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Kotter Organization Management Books 128

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2017

If you’re not learning, you’re dying. 5 insights I learned from top authors in 2016 #1. Organizations need both disruption and stability to thrive. That’s Not How We Do it Here, John Kotter.

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Kotter Organization Management Books 128

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 6, 2017

Gold Medal sprinters work endless hours to shave a millisecond off their time. At the beginning, they made giant strides.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 6, 2017

Gold Medal sprinters work endless hours to shave a millisecond off their time. At the beginning, they made giant strides.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 7, 2017

You limit the potential of your team if you can’t ask them to take on big challenges. Ask people to do a lot if you expect them to achieve a lot.

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Team 140

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 7, 2017

You limit the potential of your team if you can’t ask them to take on big challenges. Ask people to do a lot if you expect them to achieve a lot.

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Team 140

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 22, 2017

Do something where failure matters. Too much caution results in inactive leadership. All leadership requires action.

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How To Leadership Succession Leadership Development 148

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 22, 2017

Do something where failure matters. Too much caution results in inactive leadership. All leadership requires action.

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How To Leadership Succession Leadership Development 148

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2017

Enter every interaction as a learner, even when you plan to teach. One difference between confidence and arrogance is an open mind. Bring what you know, after exploring what you don’t.

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Planning Succession Leadership Development Innovation 131

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2017

Enter every interaction as a learner, even when you plan to teach. One difference between confidence and arrogance is an open mind. Bring what you know, after exploring what you don’t.

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Planning Succession Leadership Development Innovation 131

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 29, 2017

There is too much emphasis on giving feedback and too little on seeking it. Create a culture where feedback-seeking is expected, habitual, and honored. 3 principles for feedback-seeking: #1.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 30, 2017

The trouble with meetings is the preference for information and disinterest in taking action. How many people enter meetings prepared to take action, change behaviors, or adjust strategies?

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Strategy Information 162

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 30, 2017

The trouble with meetings is the preference for information and disinterest in taking action. How many people enter meetings prepared to take action, change behaviors, or adjust strategies?

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Strategy Information 162

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 29, 2017

There is too much emphasis on giving feedback and too little on seeking it. Create a culture where feedback-seeking is expected, habitual, and honored. 3 principles for feedback-seeking: #1.

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Career Objective How To 143

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 25, 2017

Someone who doesn’t believe in your vision never helps you achieve it. Unbelievers: Don’t waste time convincing unbelievers to support an effort they understand, but don’t believe in. Work with true believers.

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Succession 188

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 25, 2017

Someone who doesn’t believe in your vision never helps you achieve it. Unbelievers: Don’t waste time convincing unbelievers to support an effort they understand, but don’t believe in. Work with true believers. Encourage weak believers. Ignore unbelievers. One passionate unbeliever has more power than many half-hearted believers.

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Power Succession 188

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 21, 2017

Teams have more potential than individuals, only if individual members make them function effectively. Danger: Poorly functioning teams: Waste time. Squander resources. Discourage talent. Drain organizational energy.

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Team Energy Resources Power 196

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 18, 2017

People struggle and sink when environments feel like death. 7 signs your organization is sick: Low performers are protected. Anyone who isn’t growing, needs to go. Coach them up or out.

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How To Environment Organization Succession 139

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 17, 2017

Everyone who’s remarkable at something is really lousy at many things. Don’t let this stop you from attempting great things, but keep it in mind the next time you’re frustrated with teammates. Highly technical people may be socially awkward. Leaders who deliver great results may be impatient and rude.

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Leadership Development Development Leadership 151

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 16, 2017

Think of organizations as human bodies, not hierarchical pyramids. Bodies are agile. Pyramids house the dead. Organizational leaders try to increase speed and agility by removing layers from pyramids.

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Agility Strategy Organization Succession 113

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 15, 2017

Effective organizations enable us to harness each other’s strengths, but it ain’t easy working with others. #1. Don’t always run with the pack. You disappear if you always fall in line.

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Construction Power Organization Succession 148

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 13, 2017

Success is always about people. The stronger your team, the higher your reach. #1. Only hire curious people. Dolts and divots don’t ask questions. It doesn’t matter how smart they appear to be. An hour with a person who doesn’t ask questions is an hour with a toothache.

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Team Commitment Succession Leadership Development 157

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 11, 2017

The opposite of innovation isn’t stagnation, it’s slow miserable defeat. The future belongs to organizations that view innovation as an expression of who they are, not something they do.

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Innovation Organization Succession 155

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 9, 2017

There’s a champion connected to every significant achievement. The trouble with corporate teams is they feel too little. Great ideas apart from passionate champions never soar. What ignites fire in your heart? Do that.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 8, 2017

Habitual complainers stink like babies with dirty diapers. But everyone who brings up difficult issues, problems, and concerns isn’t an energy sucking complainer. 3 types of complainers: #1.

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How To Energy Succession Leadership Development 156

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 8, 2017

Habitual complainers stink like babies with dirty diapers. But everyone who brings up difficult issues, problems, and concerns isn’t an energy sucking complainer. 3 types of complainers: #1.

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How To Energy Succession Leadership Development 156

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 12, 2017

“We don’t get burned out because of what we do. We get burned out because we forget why we do it.” Jon Gordon, co-author of, “Life Word,” with Dan Britton and Jimmy Page.

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Gordon Power Leadership Development Development 139

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 27, 2017

Play to win or get out of the way. Successful leaders focus on success. Progress, momentum, and growth are precious things. Fuel them with all you have in you.

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Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 174

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 27, 2017

Play to win or get out of the way. Successful leaders focus on success. Progress, momentum, and growth are precious things. Fuel them with all you have in you.

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Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 174

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 19, 2017

I had dinner last evening with 25 CEOs. Before dinner, each one answered the question, “What keeps you up at night?” Here’s a sampling from the conversation.

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CEO Sample Succession Leadership Development 138

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 28, 2017

Hi Dan, I hope you’re doing well. I look forward to reading your posts everyday. I am currently working with a team that is very negative.

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Team Succession Leadership Development Development 138

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 28, 2017

Hi Dan, I hope you’re doing well. I look forward to reading your posts everyday. I am currently working with a team that is very negative.

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Team Succession Leadership Development Development 138

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 14, 2017

Isolation propagates arrogance in ourselves and confusion about others. The worst things leaders do is disconnect from the people around them.

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Succession Leadership Development Development Leadership 203

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 24, 2017

I asked a group to talk about a time when they saw an organization pulling together. They talked about shared problems and crisis.

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Crisis Team How To Organization 136

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 24, 2017

I asked a group to talk about a time when they saw an organization pulling together. They talked about shared problems and crisis.

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Crisis Team How To Organization 136

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 26, 2017

If I could begin my leadership journey again, I’d accept imperfection. Leadership begins after you accept imperfection.

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How To Leadership Succession Leadership Development 165