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Are You Selfless or Selfish?

Frank Sonnenberg Online

When most folks hear the word selfish, they think of Scrooge-like people who won’t part with money or their highly prized possessions. But being selfish is not always about money. To put it simply, you don’t have to be rich to give; your gift can be as simple as a smile. Are you selfless or selfish ?

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Love and Leadership | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

While today’s post is a bit more kumbaya than most, please don’t check out on me because you perceive this topic too gooey and gushy to be relevant. If you take what follows to heart, it might just change your world. &# I think it’s a great question.

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The Most Misunderstood Aspect Of Great Leadership

N2Growth Blog

If you want to become a better leader, I suggest you become comfortable with a leadership practice very few are… it’s called surrender. Let me be clear, I’m not encouraging giving in or giving up – I am suggesting you learn the ever so subtle art of letting go.

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Looking After Myself

Lead Change Blog

Selfless Versus Selfish. When I look after myself, people around me can perceive this as selfish. I sit on a pendulum that swings between these two extremes: Selfless ← → Selfish. If I am completely selfish, then I am not being of service to anyone. Many around me said “why on earth would you do that?”

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Didn't See It Coming

Leading Blog

They just tell us why you can’t change the world. The antidote to compromise is to “ work twice as hard on your character as you do on your competency.” When you search for an explanation as to why you have a hard time trusting or opening your heart to people, you can make progress. But here’s the thing.

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What it Takes to be an Entrepreneurial Leader

Leading Blog

And you see this very thing played out from time to time in organizations because some leaders are more concerned about being the leader than they are about the growth and survival of the organization. He says that all entrepreneurs are selfish. Initially it’s all about you. But you have to be selfish enough to be selfless.

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3 Ways to Make Power a Good Thing

Lead Change Blog

The key to good management and leadership is finding the Goldilocks’ “just right” power balance between order and freedom, between control and capacity, and between selfish and selfless. You have to make sure you never confuse the hierarchy that you need for managing complexity with the respect that people deserve.”

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