Leading is not making sure you have covered your bases, checked all your boxes. There is always something more. Leadership is about relationships, not rules. People can help you become the leader you have the potential to be, but they cannot give you a one-page process to master leadership in a few steps. You need to be strong to […]
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This is a weekend to remember. In the moments between sleeping in, grilling, sporting events, and retail sales, we will remember. We will remember the people who have shaped our lives. People who taught us how to tie our shoes, to read, to tell time, who showed us who we could become. People who gave
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I spent a lot of my childhood working on growing up. I worked hard to exceed expectations and be responsible. I was the first child and the only son in a family where the parents did not think they could have any children. I grew up around more grownups than children, at least until I started going to school.
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It is easy to see leadership as something urgent and immediate. Decisions needs to be made. Performance needs to be evaluated. Goals needs to be set. Action needs to be taken. Something must be done right away; it takes a leader to get it done. We forget that leadership is not completed when we take
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There are people who feel responsible to be beyond perfect. They believe that everything, and everyone, depends on them. They need to be strong, they need to be wise, they need to be right, no matter what they face. Without them, nothing would work the way it is supposed to work. They are essential to
We begin our lives in ways that are beyond our control. We are born into families, into communities, into circumstances we do not choose. We spend our lives working to make something of ourselves, to uncover what we have the potential to become. Life is a process we do not finish; we run out of
For some people, leadership is getting other people to do things for you. For others, leaders are people who accomplish goals. Some people see leaders as people out in front, leading the charge. Some people see leaders as conductors, orchestrating the performance of the people around them. For some, the essential quality for a leader is
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I believe in the power of listening. We live in a time when listening has gone out of fashion. We give our lives their own soundtracks so we do not need to listen to the life around us. We wrap our minds in memories, regrets, and fantasies about the future. We distract ourselves from the
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We trust we can work things out. We appreciate wise advice and suggestions. No one can force us to accept a truth we have not worked out for ourselves. There is something about the experience of doing our own work that develops our convictions. We may be primarily analytical, or intuitive, or emotional; we trust our own
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Some people think that leadership is primarily about avoiding responsibility. They perceive leaders as wanting to be seen when things are going well, but hard to find when things do not go according to plan. They see people in leadership positions who are only willing to come out of their offices to take credit for other people’s work. The leaders
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