Leadership Top 3 Meme in its Entirety
I started the "Leadership Top 3" meme a few weeks ago (quite accidentally) and was excited to see eleven TWELVE THIRTEEN people post responses! It's a LOT of good stuff, and I'm working on some synthesi ...
Category: Individual Development
Do versus Say
Seth Godin made a good point in his blog:We no longer care what you say.We care a great deal about what you do.I have personally hit a tipping point with regard to "messages." I'm sick of them. I rarely wat ...
I started a Meme
Without intending it, I seemed to have started a meme with my "Top 3" post last week on leadership. I wrote it thinking about what advice I would be giving someone early in their career so they could focus on d ...
Becoming a Leader: My Top 3 List
Aaron Wolowiec put up a post on Acronym asking about the difference between a leader and a visionary and, more importantly, how you become one (kudos, by the way, to ASAE & The Center for putting a young professional ...
Dream Big
Hugh Macleod posted an interesting video to his blog. He does marketing for Stormhoek wine, from South Africa, and they recently did a release party for a new wine in the small town of Alpine, Texas, where Hugh now lives ...
Freedom Is Not Comfortable
Freedom is quite obviously a good thing. Everyone wants it, and I think most would argue that we all deserve it. We deserve to be free.The most common story about freedom is of an oppressed group struggling for, and fina ...
Wake Up
Good leadership (wherever you are in the organization) requires a greater level of awareness. Awareness of yourself, of the situation, of the history, of the dynamics, of the trends, of the organization's capacity, e ...
The Work of Forgiveness
I think forgiveness and reconciliation is absolutely the hardest part of conflict resolution. Back when I did work in the international conflict resolution field, I saw this first hand. We could help parties negotiate be ...
Change them or change you?
I know I've written about this before, but it bears repeating:The only thing you control is your own behavior.Period. Of course you can have conversations with others about their behavior. I am a big fan of giving pe ...
Listening and Leadership
Thanks to Joe Gerstandt for pointing me to an article by Otto Scharmer on the "Blind Spot" of leadership. Honestly, I get mixed feelings when I read articles like this. At one level I am very excited by the dep ...