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When you feel compelled to remind everyone else that you’re the leader, it sounds more like you’re trying to convince yourself.
As a leader, how uncomfortable are you when you don’t have the last word in a conversation? Hmm …
Trying to display your alpha intelligence in a group of people might not be the smartest play. Just sayin’…
The Navy SEALs say that in a crisis, you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training. What’s true for special operations is true for leadership as well.
When it comes to defining leadership identity, our default is to look back to who we’ve been in the past as a starting point. This is natural, but actually handcuffs our ability to make any forward progress on stepping into the leader we can be.
My son’s experience with a caramel apple opened my mind to a life-long pattern of defining myself by who I was on the outside—DO, in order to BE. It created the opportunity for me to come to the end of myself.
The topic of leadership identity is a growing conversation, thankfully so. But keep in mind that we can’t define our leadership identity until we first define our human identity.
What if there’s a question whose answer unlocks the motivation for everything you do in our life and leadership? Well, it turns out there is!
One key basketball statistic reveals the players that most help their teams win. See how this is also a primary leadership principle.
Over-relying on your default approach makes you one-dimensional. You can’t be effective, no matter how capable, intelligent, extroverted, correct or successful you are.
Over-relying on your default approach makes you a 1-trick leadership pony. You can’t be effective, no matter how capable, intelligent, extroverted, correct or successful you are.
I agree that stuff needs to get done. But in a marketplace that virtually idolizes productivity, it's easy to become a hamster in a wheel. There's a better way.
A popular quote says, “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” I beg to differ.
Using speed to measure performance is helpful, but measuring speed alone can be misleading. One recent bike ride (re)taught me an important lesson.
What leadership principles will you rely on when everything is blowing up and the bullets are flying? It helps to talk to someone who has been there before. Allow me to introduce you to John “Lucky” Luckadoo.
The January 6, 2021 riot at the Capital Building is unmistakable proof of a problem—one that few of us may be willing to acknowledge.
The only way we can GET better is to believe that we CAN get better—which requires humility.
The day before my final commute I got a sobering reminder that letting emotions drive you almost never works in your favor.
If you’re leading others, it’s vital that you see the obvious things other people can’t—or won’t.
If you don’t have a clear picture of what kind of leader you want to be, is it really a surprise that you’re not as effective as you could be?
When it comes to your leadership, do you really want to be known as the aggressive driver trying to get ahead of everyone else?