Modern Servant Leader

AUGUST 7, 2012

It’s 4th and goal, with seconds left in the game. Your team has a decision to make – take a knee, kick a field goal or go for the touchdown? Similarly, your team can achieve a goal easily with no fiscal constraints or ethics. So your team is on the goal line, do they win or lose? You’re the coach.

Constraint 195

Constraint Sports Long-term Budgeting 195

Leading with Trust

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

That’s simple truth #46 in my book, Simple Truths of Leadership: 52 Ways to Be a Servant Leader and Build Trust , co-written with Ken Blanchard. He got to express his need for choice, and I met my goal of making sure he was well fed and clothed. “People don’t resist change; they resist being controlled.”. Problem solved!

Power 52

Power Resistance Management Stress 52

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Do you enter conversations with a goal, or set of expectations? By entering conversations with assumptions and personal goals, and listening according to historic, unconscious, self-directed filters, you unwittingly direct conversations. Do you assume you’ll have solutions for your Communication Partners (CPs)?

Influence 62

Influence System Servant Leader Goal 62