Leadership Freak

APRIL 14, 2014

'Forgiveness determines the breadth, depth, and duration of all relationships. People disappoint. The more you expect from others the more likely you’ll feel disappointed. Don’t lower expectations. Elevate forgiveness.

How To 272

How To Succession Leadership 272

Leadership Freak

MARCH 12, 2014

'Young leaders are full of p**s and vinegar because they haven’t failed enough. Old leaders look down their noses and think, “You’ll smarten up after you get knocked down a few times.

Leadership Development 271

Leadership Development Succession Development Leadership 271

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 21, 2014

'Leaders fail when they don’t think like leaders. Leaders who think like individual contributors demoralize their team and devalue their leadership. Lousy leaders think like individual contributors. 10 radical shifts in thinking: From “I” to “we.” Leadership begins with we. From controlling people to aligning passions. Raise your hand if you enjoy being controlled.

Leadership Development 271

Leadership Development Succession Team Development 271

Leadership Freak

MARCH 28, 2014

'Saying no feels like a door closing. But, those who can’t say no end up over-committed, overwhelmed, and ineffective. Saying no is the first step toward freedom for someone who says yes too much.

Commitment 271

Commitment Succession Leadership 271

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

'Mentoring ignites boldness by answering doubt with relational learning. 4 qualities of great mentors: #1. Humility: The guide isn’t the star of the show. Fight the urge toward self-importance.

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Mentor Quality Leadership Development Development 268

Leadership Freak

MAY 17, 2014

'Stop assigning tasks to yourself. Successful leaders leave meetings with fewer tasks, not more. Delegating is taking stuff off your plate and putting it on someone else’s.

Delegation 264

Delegation Leadership Development Succession Development 264

Leadership Freak

JANUARY 1, 2014

'Trivialities replace what matters when you’re under the gun. The dark power of time pressure, stress, and urgency is they obscure what’s meaningful. Getting things done replaces making a difference. Check lists replace connecting. Coercion replaces partnership. Junk food replaces healthy food. Rudeness replaces respect. I’d like to say that I focus on what’s important […].

Stress 266

Stress Leadership Development Books Power 266

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 19, 2014

'Uncertainty promotes apathy. “For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?” (KJV 1900) 16 reasons people don’t listen when you speak: Too many words.

Uncertainty 264

Uncertainty Power Leadership 264

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

'The way you think about yourself is the biggest factor in stress and productivity. Stress isn’t “out there,” it’s inside you. 10 ways to increase stress: Hide mistakes. Pretend you know. Make excuses. Expect perfection.

Stress 264

Stress Leadership Development Power Succession 264

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 4, 2014

'The responsibility for great meetings is always the responsibility of the person leading the meeting. Great meetings create focus, clarity, decisions, and useful activity.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 6, 2014

'Helping done poorly is destructive. The need to help says more about your needs than theirs. 3 UN-helpful reasons you feel the need to help: Feel important. Elevate status. Look smart.

Leadership Development 264

Leadership Development Development Succession Leadership 264

Leadership Freak

JUNE 5, 2014

'The Success of young leaders is the future of organizations. Old leaders, who cling to leadership, limit their legacy. Act like you’ll be gone next year. Rigor: Call for commitment.

Mentor 263

Mentor Influence Leadership Development Commitment 263

Leadership Freak

JUNE 8, 2014

'Some leaders become extraordinary. But, average is normal. You climb and struggle toward extraordinary. Mediocrity is a comfortable slide. Extraordinary leadership is rare because it requires: Fierce focus. Finely honed skills. Fanatical commitment.

Leadership Development 262

Leadership Development Commitment Skills Succession 262

Leadership Freak

MARCH 19, 2014

'Radical growth is the messiest – most painful – part of leadership. Death precedes life. Incremental growth is walking down familiar paths carrying the same assumptions.

Leadership 261

Leadership Leadership Development Development 261

Leadership Freak

JULY 12, 2014

'Those who aren’t irritating aren’t fully known. Everyone is irritating. They either do things that bug you, or, they leave something undone, and that bugs you. What does a perfect teammate look like?

Quality 261

Quality Leadership Development Development Leadership 261

Leadership Freak

JULY 29, 2014

'If you’re not pretty or smart don’t worry. Intelligence doesn’t determine success. Emotional intelligence is more important than general intelligence, but hard work is more important than both.

Emotional Intelligence 259

Emotional Intelligence Magazine Leadership Development Books 259

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

'An adversarial relationship with a skilled office politician destroys opportunities. It could end your career. You despise their shenanigans, but unless you have authority to deal with them, learn to get along.

Politics 260

Politics Influence Leadership Development Career 260

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

'It’s a cruel, cruel world. Most of the appreciation you receive in life happens when you’re young and incompetent or after you’re dead. In between, you have a measure of competence and you’re expected to get busy using it. Expectation ends gratitude. People aren’t grateful for what they expect. There comes a point when you’re […].

Leadership Development 259

Leadership Development Succession Development Leadership 259

Leadership Freak

JUNE 2, 2014

'Why aren’t you asking for feedback? Tell me who you want to become in behavioral terms. Why do you matter? Tell me what you expect from yourself. Pursue clarity by asking more questions.

Mentor 258

Mentor Influence Leadership Development Development 258

Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 16, 2014

'I heard brilliance from a twenty-something when I asked what humble leadership looks like. She said, “Humble leaders know they need others.” Self-reliance hinders leadership.

Quality 256

Quality Power Leadership Development Tips 256

Leadership Freak

MAY 8, 2014

'You’ll never know who you might have been if you don’t grow. Success is about personal growth not techniques, strategies, or methods. Awkward: Growth feels awkward because it means not yet and not there.

Power 257

Power Leadership Development Strategy Succession 257

Leadership Freak

MAY 31, 2014

'There are no casual words, when it comes to leadership. Every word delivers results. Determine desired results before opening your mouth. Words: Build or destroy. Energize or anesthetize. Push forward or hold back.

Leadership Development 256

Leadership Development Power Succession Development 256

Leadership Freak

MAY 23, 2014

'It takes a miracle to re-ignite a fire once you’ve hosed it down. Skillful leaders use words to energize and release. Foolish leaders reign in and control. Everyone has a fire inside.

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Team How To Influence Skills 256

Leadership Freak

JUNE 16, 2014

'Disengaged leaders lead by decree. The ability to calculate percentages isn’t leadership. It doesn’t take a college education to raise last quarter’s results by 5% and call it next quarter’s goal.

Leadership 255

Leadership Stress Education Leadership Development 255

Leadership Freak

MAY 4, 2014

'Monday morning is the most stress-filled morning of the week. Don’t let Monday push you around. Take charge of your week now. Connect with that person you’ve been meaning to reach out to.

Stress 255

Stress Succession Leadership 255

Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 5, 2014

'The status quo makes sense to the fearful. The nobility of leadership is taking action for the good of others. Successful leaders fight through cluttered thinking and excuse-making to find reasonable action.

Influence 254

Influence Succession Leadership 254

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

'Know-it-alls are completely predictable. They don’t change. Those who already know never develop new skills, embrace new ways of thinking, or grow as leaders. Everyone who grows changes.

Power 254

Power Leadership Leadership Development Skills 254

Leadership Freak

MARCH 30, 2014

'The future of organizations is in the growth of the people in them. The more influence you have the more your growth is essential to the growth of your organization.

Leadership Development 262

Leadership Development Influence Succession Organization 262

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 14, 2014

'Heartless leaders are deformed beasts who excuse abuse in the name of results. But, the tough aspects of leadership make having heart hard. Open hearts feel pain that closed hearts don’t.

Influence 254

Influence Leadership 254

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

'February 26, 2010, I wrote, “Traditional job descriptions are a relic of a past age when jobs didn’t evolve and people were more inclined to do what they were told.” Yesterday, Stan Endicott, partner at Slingshot Group, got me fired up when he said, “Job descriptions are, most of the time, not a good way […].

How To 254

How To Succession Development Leadership 254

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

'You don’t need authority, power, or position to lead. Sometimes they get in the way. Leading is serving, nothing more, nothing else, nothing less. Become a leader by serving.

Positioning 253

Positioning Power Leadership Development Succession 253

Leadership Freak

AUGUST 15, 2014

'It’s easy to learn from mistakes when you’re inventing light bulbs, but leaders work with people not bulbs. Leadership mistakes: Waste resources. Squander opportunities. Misuse talent. Hurt people.

Globalization 253

Globalization Leadership Development Resources Development 253

Leadership Freak

APRIL 25, 2014

'Leaders who never make mistakes are confused and blind. The day of savior-leadership is coming to an end. Everyone knows the emperor has no clothes. If you have it all together, you don’t.

Leadership 253

Leadership Influence Leadership Development Succession 253

Leadership Freak

APRIL 8, 2014

'Some leaders are humble. Others are driven. The great ones are both. When Jim Collins set out to write, “Good to Great,” he set out to write about great organizations, not great leaders.

Quality 253

Quality Collins Leadership Development Innovation 253

Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

'Dreamers who can’t get things done waste talent and resources. Doers who can’t dream reach too low. Doers have their feet on the ground and their head in the sand.

Leadership Development 262

Leadership Development Resources Succession Development 262

Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 22, 2014

'Bad pollutes good. Pour good water into polluted water and you have more polluted water. Negative experiences usually cling longer and captivate our attention more than positive, for example. Throwing some good into some bad only damages the good. Proportions: Enough good renders bad ineffective, it’s true. But, the proportions are disproportionate.

Efficiency 252

Efficiency Leadership Development Books Succession 252

Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2014

'Gratitude is a form of happiness. Ungratefulness, unhappiness, and ugliness travel in the same circles. Ungratefulness paints everything ugly. 10 gratitude robbers: The belief that leadership is anything other than service. Self-importance.

Travel 251

Travel Succession Leadership 251