thoughts Focus to Rise Leaders rise above context rather than just living in it. The don't contribute to the chaos. It’s not only our job to navigate ourselves and others while in the emotion but to
culture Experiencing Culture "A persons ability to experience a culture is directly dependent on their up-line's internalization of it. You have to live a culture for it to be alive." If you haven't figure
trust Missing a Deadline Missed deadlines is a failure of leadership and not solely of execution. Many don’t want the responsibility of that statement but then, why are you in leadership? It’s our job to
leadership Compassion In Leadership "[leaders] may entangle themselves in the complications of their own assumed competence and use their specialism as an excuse to avoid the much more difficult task of being compassionate." -- Henri
leadership Drucker quote Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
leadership Leadership Starts with Me Managers are limited by cognitive load. Because stuff can't think, they must and their capacity to do so for the multitude of things is the bottleneck to what can get done. When we
thoughts Walk the Walk But Don't Talk They say that the best way to inspire others is to model it and I have to agree. Modeling something is like magic; while people may be amazed or wonder how you do