Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Technical skills… Continue reading → 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.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 11, 2019

You won’t look stupid if you seek advice. There’s wisdom in not-knowing. Ancient wisdom: Research agrees with ancient wisdom. Advice-seeking is smart. And it makes you look smart when done skillfully.… … Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MAY 23, 2014

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

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Three essentials for skillful leaders: Produce useful results. Leaders who neglect people seldom get what they really want. Building relationships. Strengthening culture.

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 11, 2013

Dr. Henry Cloud Pattern recognition may be the least discussed and most neglected leadership skill. Ignore patterns and yesterday’s decisions become tomorrow’s destiny. Patterns, not problems, will ruin your business.” Yet, pattern recognition informs plans, enables innovation, and empowers decision making. Everyone [.].

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Leadership Freak

JULY 7, 2017

But political skill is one reason they earned their position. What seems like weakness may be advantage. Your manager’s obsession with the opinion of upper management may drive you crazy. Perhaps you should… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JULY 23, 2018

Learn leadership skills and behaviors. The six chapters in the leader’s journey are: Believe you can make a difference. Engage in leading. Respond to adversity and disappointment with openness and resolve. … Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Great mentoring is more than developing skills, helping people create connections, and navigating organizational politics. How to be a great mentor: #1. Great mentors help us become ourselves. Great mentors practice self-reflection. It’s… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

APRIL 21, 2017

Insert any management skill.) Arrogance can’t see a need for development. Ask egotistical managers if they run great meetings. Of course they do! There’s no point in telling them they don’t. Pride invites… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

DECEMBER 13, 2021

A person who has a grip on their schedule has a grip on their life. Cramming more activities into less time is like walking on marbles. Running from one thing to the next… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 6, 2022

Skills are a car without gas. Imagine you learn how to make the best possible decisions. Courage to act is gas. Apart from courage you’re still stuck. Winston Churchill said, “Courage is rightly… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

JUNE 16, 2016

I asked him, “What qualities and skills do you currently possess that enable you to succeed?” He told me about problems and challenges. People lose boldness when they forget who they are. Inspire people to bring their… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MAY 10, 2015

New skills are needed. The first sign of life is growth. Leaders who aren’t growing are dying. Great dreams require great growth. Exponential growth occurs when: Success feels uncertain. Situations feel awkward. Lack… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MAY 26, 2021

Overcommitment is sprinting into oblivion with your hair on fire. Self-management is less about getting stuff done and more about your relationship with time. Effect of overcommitment: You can’t enjoy leading with a… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 21, 2015

In order to develop a quality or skill it must be distilled to behaviors. I was fascinated when a client pushed me beyond behaviors by saying, “Curiosity is an emotion.” This post is the result of her statement. 3 benefits of curiosity: Solutions begin with curiosity. Curiosity makes you interesting. The most boring people aren’t curious.

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Leadership Freak

JANUARY 7, 2012

Ability: Can I learn new skills and behaviors? Uncertainty: How will new leaders [.]. Organizations grow when new, competent talent steps in. 7 reasons letting go challenges longstanding leaders: Identity: Who am after I let go? Confidence: Will I perform as well?

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Leadership Freak

MAY 16, 2012

The purpose of leadership is to identify and create the future. If you want to lead, go somewhere and take someone with you. The challenge of leadership is helping people keep up. You are ahead. If you aren’t ahead you aren’t leading.

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Leadership Freak

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Speaking skills matter when you lead meetings for teams, boards, or the entire company. How to… Continue reading → You might not enjoy it, but leading includes public speaking. You can’t lead without speaking in public.

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Leadership Freak

AUGUST 28, 2018

Skillful leaders know that standing with people when they screw up … Strengthens relationships. How to stand… Continue reading → Self-serving leaders throw people under the bus. Improves morale. Inspires trust. Instills courage. Deepens commitment.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 8, 2014

Developing skills – when you’re empty on the inside – destroys you, especially if you succeed. Empty leaders lose themselves to skills, methods, and strategies. Teach how to be, before teaching what to do.

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Leadership Freak

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

When you feel more skilled than your replacement… your replacement won’t do things ‘right’ because you ‘know’ how to do their job. The danger of being promoted is micromanaging your replacement. On the… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

” Helen Keller Skillful leaders know how to inspire self-confidence in others. The ability to drain self-confidence from others is a foolish leader’s talent. “Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” 5 Lies About self-confidence… Continue reading →

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Leadership Freak

MAY 16, 2012

The purpose of leadership is to identify and create the future. If you want to lead, go somewhere and take someone with you. The challenge of leadership is helping people keep up. You are ahead. If you aren’t ahead you aren’t leading.

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Leadership Freak

JULY 22, 2015

The challenge of coaching teammates is technical skill. You know how to do their job the “right” way, if you’ve been promoted up the ranks. Or, at least you think you know. Don’t explore… Continue reading →

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