Useful quotes and life tips. “Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.” — Jose Ortega y Gasset “Better to trip with the feet than with the tongue.” — Zeno “Space I can recover. Time, never.” — Napoleon Bonaparte “You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes … Continue reading Maximum Maxims
Influence
Adaptive Leaders: The Leader’s Care
“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.” – Daniel Goleman Effective adaptive leaders are continually working … Continue reading Adaptive Leaders: The Leader’s Care
Maximum Maxims
Here a few maxims that I find useful and fruitful in my life. Enjoy! “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.” — Teddy Roosevelt “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus “The best revenge … Continue reading Maximum Maxims
Adaptive Leaders: Self-awareness
"As a man thinks within himself, so he is." - King Solomon “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”- Winston Churchill Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner's great book, “The Leadership Challenge,” makes the case for leadership as a learnable skill set. Their point is that … Continue reading Adaptive Leaders: Self-awareness
Adaptive Leaders: The People
“Never underestimate change. What seems simple at the top is magnified at lower echelons and is extremely disruptive. It is a festering crisis that needs attention from senior management or else loyalty, efficiency, and productivity will suffer.” - Wheeler L. Baker The quote above is true; what seems like a simple challenge, a straight-forward change, … Continue reading Adaptive Leaders: The People
Adaptive Leadership: Relational and Influential
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu Leadership is about people, and the focus of the effective leader is in large part the people who are being led and the beneficiaries of the enterprise that … Continue reading Adaptive Leadership: Relational and Influential
Effective Adaptive Leadership
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.“ — John Quincy Adams If you are seeking to make your leadership effective even in the face of adaptive challenges, the following few posts will identify key factors you can apply to your own leadership development. … Continue reading Effective Adaptive Leadership
Hedgehog Living
Even before I understood the hedgehog concept, making the adjustments necessary to stay working in the intersection of my passion, skills, and the place where the greatest difference could be made was driving my career decisions. Several times, my work shifted over time to the point where it no longer was at that intersection. In … Continue reading Hedgehog Living
The Hedgehog Concept: Passion
Last Saturday, I introduced the idea that leadership is about two key priorities, people and influence. Effective leadership can happen in any working relationship. It does not flow from position or title, rather from concern for people and the ability to positively influence them for success. Effective leadership can happen at any level in the … Continue reading The Hedgehog Concept: Passion
Leadership – Hedgehogs
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