Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Exceptional leaders build environments where others get things done. Practices if you want to build environments where others get things done… B… Continue reading → Average leaders get things done. Average leaders fix. Exceptional leaders build.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 12, 2024

How can you create vibrant environments and get work done? Don't squander opportunities when remote teams meet in person. Energizing meetings are rare and hard to pull off. Don't bother traveling if face-to-face is the same as remote - except you're in the same room.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 4, 2024

PS - Special culture building activities help, but culture is built in the real world, not artificial environments. Culture building happens while you work. That's why culture building doesn't require much energy. Here's a simple plan.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Performing the same job year after year is a recipe for boredom, coasting, and low productivity. Entrenched, stagnant employees protect their turf, resist change, and create roadblocks. In addition, they build power bases that instinctively fight off innovation from “outsiders.”

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Leadership Freak

JULY 3, 2015

Rules, restrictions, and hierarchy make us small. Greatness assumes freedom. Men and women languish under oppression and die for freedom. Yet, organizations often cling to heavy-handed methods to get things done. 5 benefits of freedom: Energy to face challenging obstacles, rather than walk away. Fulfillment while working hard on things that matter.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 15, 2015

Darkness prevails when you neglect positive energy. Millions of dollars are spent on energizing employees, but energy remains low. Focused energy is engagement. Energy goes up when you tend it and cools when… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 22, 2023

How can you make it delightful to work with you, even in high stress environments? I had a conversation with a high performing leader who is great at setting goals for results. But it's time to set goals for relationships.

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 8, 2022

Competitive business environments require greater productivity and efficiency. But how might you challenge people and create an environment where… Continue reading → Every manager wants to know how to challenge people. High expectations are table stakes.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 10, 2022

A question-rich environment develops talent. Life is about questions. Compared to everything that could be known, we’re in diapers. “Telling” plays a role in leadership. Questions advance your leadership. Command and control leaders… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 18, 2022

It’s normal to feel anxious when skills are untested, environments are unstable,… Continue reading → Anxiety is a small fire in a dry pile of kindling. It feeds on itself. Anxiety means you care about results.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 9, 2021

A professional environment is a pig sty that slows development, blocks innovation, and belittles authenticity. But there’s a difference between being professional and professional environments.… If professionalism is about competence, count me in. … Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 17, 2022

Don’t let environments bully you into exhaustion. Living without meaning makes beasts of us all. Just bury your head in the mud to escape drudgery. Walk through the door dedicated to manage meaningfully.… … Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JULY 13, 2021

Turbulence, opportunity, and too much to do are the perfect environment for doing machines. Living without purpose is easy; just run around doing stuff as fast as you can. But human beings require… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JULY 8, 2020

Chronic dissatisfaction contaminates environments and teams. Dissatisfaction in reasonable doses motivates improvement. The chronically dissatisfied shrink the future with complaint and criticism. Chronically dissatisfied people: #1. Need you to make them happy. The… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Poor results and toxic environments are often the result of misplaced tolerance. The worst agonies of leadership are self-inflicted. What happens when you avoid tough issues: #1. Unintentional affirmation of negative behaviors. Silent… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JULY 9, 2020

Yesterday I wrote, “Chronic dissatisfaction contaminates environments and teams.” You won’t make a difference if you’re easily satisfied. Pete asks, “… what if I am the one who is chronically dissatisfied? What’s the… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MAY 3, 2013

Backstabbers Leading Marks of leaders Success Teams courageous leader Culture Leadership Development organizational success reward kindness toxic environments' Results matter, but how you achieve results [.].

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Leadership Freak

JULY 17, 2013

Encouragement Influence Leading Optimism Taking others higher Trust Values courageous leaders Leadership Leadership Development meaningful goals organizational success organizational values self indulgence supportive environments'

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 7, 2013

Encouragement Health Leading Motivation Personal Growth discouragement Growth health Leadership Development leverage strengths toxic environments underutilization' It’s the “never ending” part that gets you down. Apart […].

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 7, 2014

Negative focus creates negative environments. But, successful leaders build energizing environments. Your primary influence is the environment you create.” Peter Senge Lead like a comedian: Comedians influence others. Leadership is influence.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 24, 2019

Environments created by out-of-touch leaders are filled with frustration, distrust, and defeat. Disconnected decision-makers create distress. Deeper concerns: New systems and processes help, but the deeper concern of organizational distress is leadership. What… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 26, 2013

Author Book Notes Leading Power Taking others higher control freaks fear of failure Leadership Development Organizational Development supportive environments' Leader as parent: […].

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 24, 2012

Hate your work environment? Whining reinforces negative environments. Celebrations build and reinforce positive environments. Negative celebrations build negative environments. Negative celebrations build negative environments. Build rather than tear down. Celebrations create culture. What needs to be fixed?

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Leadership Freak

MARCH 23, 2013

Peter Senge said, “Your primary influence is the environment you create.” Leaders often neglect environments in favor of getting work done. Tending personal environments: Personal space has energy. [.]. All successful leaders energize others. But, what if you aren’t the energizing type?

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

The immediate environment around you is your complete responsibility. Become positive: #1. Imagine you’re a positive leader. Go do that. Behave your way into positive leadership. #2. Stop saying, “Yes, but….” One reason… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

You might not be able to control your environment, but attitude is a choice. Attitude is a decision about the way you show up. Attitude: I’ll never forget the guy with his hat… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Grim-Reaper-Leaders contaminate every environment. People feel you before they see you. Have you ever walked into a space and felt a bad vibe before seeing anyone? Radius: Imagine waking up after an accident… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 16, 2018

Negative environments are built by default. 50% of our emotional vocabulary describes negative emotion. 30% describes positive emotion. 20% is neutral. Robert Schrauf You have more words for negative energy than positive emotion. The… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 22, 2018

A five-year plan is a fairy tale in turbulent environments. The best you can do in uncertainty and turbulence is set direction and improvise. Planning is making decisions ahead of time. Last year’s… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JULY 15, 2012

Happiness is more a function of attitude than environment. People in the same environment may be happy or sad depending on their attitude. Happiness within organizations: Commitment is fundamental to happiness. Committed people are happier than uncommitted. Committed people work to make things work.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 11, 2014

Environments… Continue reading → Alphabet Culture Leading Leadership' Blood sucking vampires lurk in the shadows of your organization. If you don’t stop them, they’ll drainyou. Any fool can drain energy. Real leaders create it. Fires, left to themselves, go out.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 24, 2014

In hectic environments brevity is power. Leave a comment on this post for a chance to win one of twenty-five copies of, “Brief,” by Joe McCormack. People tune out when you blab on.… … Continue reading → Author Book Notes Communication Culture Leading Leadership Leadership Development'

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Leadership Freak

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Pushing toward positive environments, while others pull down, discourages and frustrates leaders. What’s the use? To make matters worse, one negative does more damage than one positive does good. It hangs on longer, too. Organizations grow dark unless someone intervenes. But, negativity does just fine on its own.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 19, 2016

Successful managers create environments where people make a difference for themselves and their organizations. The tragedy of poor management is lost potential and lack of fulfillment. Six simple questions all successful managers ask: #1. What… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 31, 2015

Successful leaders build environments where people love working together. Environments emerge from language, conversation, and behavior. 4 essentials to successful environment building #1. Intolerance: Environment building includes confrontation.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 4, 2013

Worse yet, passive leaders – those who tolerate rotten apples – create rotten environments by default. Rotten apples – negative, destructive, self-absorbed, unethical employees – pollute organizations. Furthermore, foul leaders inevitably build stagnant, foul organizations. Leaders who tolerate rotten apples are rotten themselves.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 5, 2015

Positive words create vibrant environments. Negative words create defeated environments. Words create worlds. Energy is low, when problems, complaints, and falling short is the persistent topic of conversation. Leaders ignite vitality or drain energy… Continue reading →

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