When your leadership battery is fully charged, everyone around you wins.
The health of your inner-world directly affects your ability to lead effectively.
As a leader, your true test comes in contentious moments when stakes are high and emotions run deep. Building a healthy culture during heated debates requires balancing passion with composure, anchoring arguments in facts over rhetoric, and focusing on issues rather than individuals.
Every leader leads two teams; there’s the team you inherited, and there’s the team you built.
When your leadership seems like it has hit a slump, it can be tempting to look for any shortcut to get things going again.
If you are indeed growing in your leadership, you should see evidence of a growing number of leaders emerging whom you are building into.
As a leader you must project optimism. But when you cross the line into exaggeration or hyperbole, your leadership is facing significant risks.
When you say, “I hate meetings!” your team could be receiving a message that might be damaging your culture more than you ever realized.
One of the most important functions of effective leadership is to master the power of perspective.
Leadership is about producing results, not reports. If you’ve ever encountered a leader who seemed more interested in inspecting activities than in inspiring results, you’ve encountered Clipboard Leadership.
Knowing the pace at which you take action as a leader is often as important as the action itself.
The power of how you communicate as a leader is not limited to the great vision-casting speeches you make. Much of your impact takes place in your day to day conversations.
The starting place for building an effective “dream team” is in having a crystal clear picture of the qualities you want in the people.
In challenging times, leaders are called upon to exhibit inspiring levels of courage. But finding the ways to develop such courage can be a leader’s greatest challenge.
Leaders solve problems. And whatever problem you’re facing, clarifying your thinking is always the first-step to move you towards a solution. Such clarity of thought became something of a lifeline when I encountered a serious problem in a small airport in an impoverished country in east Africa.
Chrismas is here! You can find a vivid picture of how two vital leadership principles can be intertwined by looking at one of the time-honored carols of the season.
Self-leadership requires self-evaluation. Leaders must be able to end their day, look back, and know with certainty whether or not this was a good leadership day.
To introduce significant change, leaders must know when and how to cash in their “change chips”.
What you believe as a leader will ultimately determine who you become as a leader.
Effective leaders know that there are at least 4 often-overlooked disciplines that are essential to well-balanced leadership.
