The secret to sustainable, effective leadership is not only in knowing when to speed up, and when to slow down. More often than you'd think, it’s knowing when to stop.
Leadership legacies are built more on kindness than they are on accomplishments. Kindness is action-oriented, and is an essential component to influencing lasting impact. So, what are the qualities that make up kind leadership?
If everything is an emergency, nothing is an emergency. The truth of this leadership axiom is lost on many leaders who seem to lurch their leadership, and their team, from one panic-riddled crisis to another.
And as we have embraced Zoom meetings as a new reality of our leadership world, we have also seen that such virtual meetings have formed a laboratory of sorts for important leadership principles. Here are four key leadership truths that have been re-enforced by the world of virtual meetings.
You don’t have to guess whether you’re growing as a leader. You can take a simple test to know for sure. Here are three indicators to look for.
Whether or not your new leadership vision will fall flat, or will generate wild fanfare, has less to do with the vision itself, and more to do with how you go about casting the vision.
One of the most important functions of effective leadership is to master the power of perspective.
Each year at Easter, I make it a practice to clearly and openly convey the core place from which my leadership originates.
In a world that has attached a strange nobility to the notion of being busy, effective leaders stand out by avoiding the “I’m so busy” trap.
In leadership, your ability to thrive under pressure is determined by the clarity of your default setting.
For 12 months you’ve been doing the hard work of leadership. Now it's time to examine your soul.
To become more effective, you likely need to overcome the biggest problem-solving problem in leadership.
Leaders love starting lines, and they love finish lines. But effective leaders know that the battle is often won in the less glamorous “in-between” lines.
See how you handle these four temptations.
Effective leaders know that to maximize growth, it requires being willing to give up a measure of control.
What you accomplish in your day is largely driven by the momentum you have when you start the day.
Your last impression is the impact you made on your most recent interaction.
If this is true, you're probably not leading at your best.
There are a number of disciplines that must be mastered. Some are obvious, but a few essential ones are often well below the radar.
One of the most important roles of the leader is to keep their eye on the ball at all times.
