“The water should be deep enough here.” Many a ship’s captain has believed that lie, and many of their ships have ended up stranded on a sandbar or dashed against a reef. In the same way, there are lies that leaders are tempted to tell themselves every day. And some of these can shipwreck their…
How To Discover A Christmas Leadership Miracle
A leader must be as jealously protective of their people as they are zealously focused on their goal. And as the Christmas season is upon us, you can find a vivid picture of how these two vital leadership principles can be intertwined by looking at one of the time-honored carols of the season. In Good King Wenceslas you…
How to Avoid the 4 Temptations of Being a Nice Leader
Being known as a nice person has been considered by some to be detrimental to effective leadership. But the evidence would indicate that just the opposite is true. In today’s world, nice people really do finish first when it comes to leadership. Niceness is not weakness. It is not passive and indecisive. It simply means…
How To Spot 10 Indicators Of Falling Leadership Stock
If you’re finding that even the most basic functions of effective leadership are becoming difficult, it could be that your leadership stock has been falling. As I outlined in 10 Indicators Your Leadership Stock Is On The Rise, the influence of your leadership, like the value of a publicly traded stock, is either going up,…
How to Seize Moments of Truth that Elevate Your Leadership
A moment of truth takes the form of opportunities to do the right thing, over doing the easy thing. Leadership is a role that must be re-established every day, by passing through a series of “moments of truth”. The key is to recognize those moments when they come along. One morning my first moment of…
