Thinking small, isn’t hard. It’s just a habit. A habit with consequences.
Same for thinking big.
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Tags: Leadership Skill, Leadership Training, teamwork, The Definitive Leader, Transformational Leadership
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true were really true, there would be little hope of advance.
Tags: Conflict in the Workplace, Leadership Skill, team conflict, Transformational Leadership
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.”
Tags: Leadership Skill, Leadership Skills, Transformational Leadership
Do you want to be famous? For what?
Thomas Edison was the most prolific inventor in history. His style of leadership was to work all the time. Edison was known for not sleeping. Yes, that’s true. He basically never slept. He would only take short naps and get right back to work.
Tags: Leadership Skills, The Definitive Leader, Transformational Leadership
There is a wonderful framing of true leadership skills in the blog post at The Practice of Leadership titled Are You a Leader or Just a Boss? (http://dld.bz/cPbx). Here’s a quote from the post: Just having a title does not make you a leader, leaderships is about influence. Title only buys you time to exercise true leadership, and in this time your leadership either increases or diminishes and eventually fails. There is a huge difference between being a boss and being a leader…
Tags: Conflict in the Workplace, Leadership Skills, teamwork, Transformational Leadership
Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. - Abraham Lincoln
Look in the mirror. Would you be inspired by you? It has been said that we are the result of the 5 people we hang around the most. Who do you want to influence you? How do you want to influence others?
Tags: Conflict in the Workplace, Leadership Skills, team conflict, Transformational Leadership
You must have control of the authorship of your own destiny. The pen that writes your life story must be held in your own hand. - Irene C. Kassorla
One of the most common problems I encounter when working with leaders to build results and create effective teams, is described in the statement, “My people just don’t do what I need them to do.” I suggest that this problem comes from the leader and not from the team.
Tags: Leadership Skills, leadership systems, team conflict, Transformational Leadership
