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The Courage of Leadership
Authentic leaders are very unique people. Perhaps that’s why we see so few of them in everyday life. They set themselves apart not only by what they say but by what they do. They simply do things...
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7 Signs You’re Not as Ethical as You Think
1. Do your actions match your thoughts? This is how most people tend to let themselves off the hook, Pastin says: You judge yourself by your thoughts and intentions rather than by what you actually do....
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Don’t Over-Complicate It – 7 Simple Truths for Leadership Success
1. There aren’t any shortcuts - Leadership is hard work and most of it is on the job training. Formal education and ongoing development are essential parts of developing your leadership competency, but...
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The Secrets to Executive Presence
Here are three key components to executive presence and how you can start to develop it no matter where you’re starting. Strategic perspective : Learn to connect your work (including the work of your...
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4 Behaviors You Never Want to See in a Leader
1. Complaining : It undermines leadership efforts. One of the many challenges an organizational leader faces is buy-in from his people. What he doesn’t need is one of his appointed deputies barking...
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Women Leaders Must Dive In, Not Just Lean In
There is a women’s leadership movement afoot that needs to transition from underground grassroots to mainstream establishment. This isn’t about goodwill, preferences or representation. Mobilizing women...
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Spring Cleaning For Your Leadership
1. Stop and connect with your leadership context: Our world is constantly changing and yet many of us operate on old paradigms of “what was” or “what should be”. Stop and examine the new reality. What...
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5 Sacrifices A Leader Must Make
1) Sacrificing Time and Energy: Giving both your time and energy in order to help others and the company that you work for is a sacrifice that all excellent leaders make. This is an important sacrifice...
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5 Leadership Lessons Pope John Paul II Taught A Young Swiss Guard
1. Encourage people to dream big and to keep their eyes on the long term : “John Paul always took the perspective of my whole life into consideration when talking with me. I think this was rooted in...
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Golf and Leadership
Don’t make it worse by doing something crazy: The only birdie I had today came after a lousy tee shot. After my drive, I was about 240 yards from the hole on a par 5. Rather than try a heroic shot over...
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How Thought Leadership Works From the Inside Out
1. Invite Co-Authorship: If a thought leader at your company is willing, have them invite a less experienced employee to co-write an article or assist with research for an upcoming piece. Even if the...
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The 10 Leadership Lessons We Can all Learn from Giraffes
1. Giraffes stick their neck out: They display their strengths, expose their vulnerabilities and take informed risks to survive and thrive. We should do the same when we are acting alone or as part of...
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Being a Good Leader Is Not a Popularity Contest
1. Know your processes: Getting the processes right is maybe the most valuable thing you can do for securing your success. Good processes are repeatable and make sure that the content processed is...
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The Cowboy CEO’s 8 Business Rules Learned Roping Cattle
1. Failure is not an option: It doesn’t matter how cold it is or whether you’re sick. If you don’t feed the cows, they die. 2. Treat other people well: When you run into trouble on a ranch, the only...
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Leadership Lessons From Admiral Michelle Howard, The Highest Ranking Woman In...
1. If you want to innovate, first take a hard look at yourself–and be flexible about making changes. 2. Create space for creativity–you never know what could result. 3. A morning routine can boost...
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5 Common Questions Leaders Should Never Ask
1. What’s the problem? Company leaders may often find themselves asking this question or some variation of it. “What’s the problem, what’s going wrong, what is broken, what is our biggest threat — that...
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Ways to Express Remarkable Boldness
1.Give and serve. Servants achieve the deepest results. Be more bold about your giving than your getting. 2.Point out things that aren’t working. Every problem you tiptoe around caps your organization....
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Overhauling How We Teach Leadership
The public long has lamented the state of “leadership” in America, referring often to a deficit in political or business leadership. Scandals like the ones with Bernie Madoff and David Petraeus year...
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Fund Investors: Focus on Stewardship
Among fund selectors, and even on occasion among media, an undue focus on past performance, particularly short-term past performance, is all too common. This is understandable to an extent—performance...
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What Great Leadership Training Does Now That It Didn’t 10 Years Ago
To evolve as leaders, managers have to internalize the idea that leadership is fundamentally different from managing tasks. Being a great leader means both managing tasks and functions well, but also...
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