Posts Tagged ‘Self-Improvement’
How Do Great Leaders Connect?
How many times have you heard that the key to leadership is staying cool, reserved, and perhaps even a bit distant so that we can remain independent in our thinking and actions? If you answered, “quite a few,” you’re not alone. That’s what we are taught. In financial, legal and business management courses—the breeding grounds…
Read MoreLonely at the Top
If you are a supervisor or manager at any level, you will be lonely. That’s a fact. It’s natural and the way it should be. Accept it, but don’t let that fact of leadership impact your effectiveness as a leader! There is help for you. Real leaders don’t buddy around with those that they supervise.…
Read MoreHang On Tightly
I was travelling nearly 70 miles an hour on the highway when I looked into the side mirror of my truck and saw this grasshopper hanging on tightly. I don’t even know how he can do that! He does look to be having a great ride though—face in the wind, antennae laid back. One cool…
Read MoreAre You Winning The Race?
Look at the picture above. Who is winning the race? You might think it is the person in front, Peter Sagan, the guy in the green jersey. Nope, not this race. The leader of the Tour de France is always the guy in the yellow jersey. The cyclist who has completed the previous stages of…
Read MoreBrain Freeze
What was I thinking? A client hired me to deliver a keynote speech, so I planned the trip, prepared my speech, packed my bag, jumped in my truck and headed toward the airport. I was looking forward to being Physically Present with all the leaders of this great company on the day of their big…
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