Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Ego needs to feel important. A ego-filled leader enjoys dependent relationships. Helping feels good. It’s destructive when people can’t move forward without you. Reject the ego-building intoxication that comes from being needed. The… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The first development is self-development. #1. Explore widely. What leadership skills and behaviors seem most relevant to pressing challenges and current opportunities? Make a long list. #2. Use an aspirational lens. Look through… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MAY 6, 2019

“If you want to achieve your goals, DON’T focus on them.” Goals can kill you. Reggie Rivers former Denver Bronco’s running back.) Summit-fever: Summit-fever refuses to take NO for an answer. Nearly 300… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 27, 2012

The former CEO of Southwest Airlines, Jim Parker, told me, “Don’t set artificial goals for yourself.” Set people goals. Begin with noble ends: Leadership is about people. Production and profitability are useful and necessary but never enough. Increasing profits by 6% is important but not noble.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 24, 2011

Deadlines don’t motivate until goals have meaning. People must personally own goals before deadlines create urgency, focus, decisiveness, and action. The goal of giving gifts to loved ones makes this deadline matter. Today is Christmas Eve. It’s the motivating deadline for millions of procrastinators.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 1, 2024

A big goal makes me feel powerful when it's 364 days away. A goal for today slaps me to attention. A year-long goal is a compass. Awareness of brevity sets the rudder.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 27, 2016

Conant for contributing this insightful post on bringing goals to life. Many leaders understand the importance of designing a strategy and setting goals. But bringing those goals to life can be challenging. I invited several top leaders, authors, and bloggers to share their wisdom with Leadership Freak readers.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Jim Parker, former CEO of Southwest Airlines told me, “Don’t set artificial goals for yourself. Don’t set goals about the job you want or the amount of money you want to make.” I’ve been remembering something unusual that was said to me about ten months ago. You [.].

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 29, 2015

The exponential leadership goal: Real leaders “develop leaders who develop … … Continue reading → Sometimes leaders do all three. Often they don’t. Successful leadership pivots on developing leaders. Leaders, who don’t develop leaders, become bottlenecks.

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 24, 2011

Deadlines don’t motivate until goals have meaning. People must personally own goals before deadlines create urgency, focus, decisiveness, and action. The goal of giving gifts to loved ones makes this deadline matter. Today is Christmas Eve. It’s the motivating deadline for millions of procrastinators.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 26, 2015

Getting things done is the lesser goal of leadership. The ultimate goal of leadership is nothing less than transformation. The biggest roadblock to transformation, within organizations, is the false belief that information is… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 5, 2016

Goal setting conversations are best held after the holidays. December is a month of endings; January beginnings. It’s difficult to dream about new things when you’re wrapping up old. Go with the natural rhythm of… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 24, 2016

The leader’s ultimate goal is building teams that excel without them. #1. Lousy leaders are over-involved and frantic. Identify influencers. Look beyond job titles or positions that may obscure true influencers in your organization. The self-protective good ole boy’s club may be a roadblock to maximizing true influencers.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Achieving results is a walk in the park compared to navigating the fuzzy side of leadership. Measuring success is even more difficult. The soft stuff: Building relationships. Managing energy. Staying curious. Technical skills… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 6, 2023

The stuff I read about setting goals is dangerous because it works. Big goals destroy us when we reach for the wrong thing. The thing you reach for shapes you. Many lose what… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Reaching goals provides fulfillment. You’re exhausted because you believe the myth of reaching goals. The only thing achievement provides is the opportunity to look for the next goal. The process is endless… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 28, 2023

The goal of support is enabling. Support is an essential aspect of leading today. There is a danger, however. Some support is destructive. Today, I'm offering you an opportunity to reflect on your support efforts. It's helpful to spot the signs of destructive support. Read more:

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 30, 2023

One goal of managing is to supervise less. Managers work too hard because they supervise too much. Giving autonomy to supervisors scares the crap out of incompetent managers. Bureaucrats become block autonomy with regulations. Control requires management and supervision. The bigger the employee handbook the more you need to supervise.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 24, 2023

Choose the goal: Know where you’re going before… Continue reading → It’s normal to complain; it’s leadership to make something better. The consistent pursuit of improvement yields unfathomable advantage. Improvement is the ultimate pursuit of leadership.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 21, 2021

Organizations revert to past strategies and former leaders when the goal is stability. Three things I’m noticing. When personal agendas conflict with organizational mission relationships are weapons and progress slows to a crawl.… … Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MAY 17, 2022

Performance is about rigorous standards, high expectations, clear goals, and providing support. Challenge people and be tenderhearted. “The best leaders are toughminded on standards and tenderhearted with people.” ” Doug Conant 24 ways to… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MAY 20, 2020

But the goal is wisdom, not less foolishness. The song says, “Everybody plays the fool sometimes.” The golden attribute of leadership is wisdom. “Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom.” ” Solomon Lack of… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Deadlines don’t work when goals don’t capture hearts and minds. Christmas is a deadline that can’t be postponed. 4 benefits of deadlines: Focus. Decisiveness. December 25 is just another day if… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The goal of helping is enabling, not more helping. Over-helpful leaders are over-worked and under-appreciated. Help in ways that strengthen competency and don’t create dependency. Train people to help each other, BEFORE they… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 7, 2020

Arrogance serves self-destructive goals. Arrogance stabs itself in the chest in order to get what it wants. But strangely, the beauty of humility terrifies. Humility pursues meaningful contribution. Arrogance: Pretends. Intimidates. Serves itself.… … Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 18, 2018

The goal of your inner-critic is safety. Inner-critics stomp around smashing hope and shattering confidence. The top 7 expressions of inner-critics: You should have. Inner-critics love the negative past. You screwed up. They… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 18, 2018

John Doerr Rethink: Set a goal that requires you to rethink the way you do things. “If you seek to achieve greatness, stretching for amazing is a great way to start.” Astro Teller,… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Leaders become manipulators when self-serving goals outweigh shared goals. Self-serving goals require manipulation, coercion, deception, and pressure tactics. Shared goals, on the other hand, pull everyone forward. Bob Burg in Adversaries to Allies. Manipulators are skillful persuaders.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Here’s the message I took: Forget about long-term goals. Goals Leading Strengths Success Taking others higher Leadership Development leadership success organizational success Questions' I just listened to one of the most highly regarded football coaches in the United States say, “Don’t worry about winning.”

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 17, 2018

People who work together end up working against each other when goals compete and agendas collide. The goals of leadership and the challenges of management create healthy friction. Unresolved friction eventually turns to… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JULY 27, 2013

You always zigzag to big goals. Decisions Failure Goals Leading bad decisions better success change direction Communication foreknowledge Leadership Development organizational success wise leaders' The down side of resolve, tenacity, and determination is refusing to learn and adapt as you go. Those […].

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Leadership Freak

JULY 30, 2014

… Continue reading → Goals Leading Success Teams Values mission & vision Communication Decisions Leadership Meetings' Mediocre teams kill things slowly. Better to work alone than die a lingering death on a gasping team. Successful leaders move through talk to action.…

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 31, 2014

Temptation to… Continue reading → Encouragement Goals Personal Growth Taking others higher courageous leaders Growth Leadership' The temptation to turn back whispers when progress is slow, you feel alone, or you’re unappreciated. If leadership was easy, more people would do it. Meaningful achievement always requires resilience.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 26, 2012

Great goals are great beginnings but goals alone never reach great endings. Move beyond goals; focus on specific tasks.” Dean Brenner in “Share the Sandbox” A goal without action items is a horse with no legs; it looks good from a distance but it never takes you anywhere. Tasks are points of execution.

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 21, 2018

But the goals are the same. The goals of resistance and opposition… Continue reading → Meaningful purpose energizes the purposeless status quo into resistance and opposition. It might be passive resistance. It might be active opposition.

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Leadership Freak

MAY 28, 2014

Correcting the past:… Continue reading → Criticism Feedback Goals Leading Leadership organizational success Questions' Past tense leaders don’t clarify results or methods, before you take action. But, when it’s over, they critique and tweak what you did. Lousy leaders are wise after the fact.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 6, 2014

Tensions… Continue reading → Complaints Encouragement Goals Marks of leaders Mentoring Optimism Stress challenges Leadership Development leadership success organizational success' You’re preparing to meet the problems, opportunities, issues, and challenges waiting on your desk.

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