Leadership Lesson: 5 Ways to Develop Leadership, Culture and Morale
The 2nd lesson to Develop Leadership, Culture and Morale is below which will compound over the coming weeks. Build Your Belief Yes, the passion bug strikes every so often. But the most passionate and successful leaders are very intentional and continually build their belief about leadership, fitness, nutrition and mindset. Just like a lawyer litigating […]
Leadership Lesson: 5 Ways to Develop Leadership, Culture and Morale
I was reviewing some of my notes and stumbled upon some content I taught to our Mastermind 2.0 group a few years ago around leadership, culture and team morale. Being repetition is the mother of skill and an indicator of strong leadership, I wanted to share 5 of these takeaways over the coming weeks The […]
Leadership Lesson: The Solution
When I have a bad day.. When I have to deal with the litany of outside forces creating friction on the path ahead.. When I get frustrated I have to deal with problems that are not my doing.. When I feel like the world is crashing down.. I then take a deep breath and realize […]
Leadership Lesson: If you want to be liked…
“If you want to make everyone happy, Don’t be a leader. Sell ice cream!” – Steve Jobs. This is the tough truth about leadership. Most times when you help people, people don’t like it. At least, at first. But like a parent, your job as a leader is to do what’s best for your followers.. […]
Leadership Lesson: Who is it about?
As a leader.. It’s definitely not about you! It never has been. It never will be. When you accept this truth.. Your leadership will explode.
Leadership Lesson: Winning
Winning needs to be your #1 focus as the desired outcome as a leader. In fact, you have a duty, obligation and responsibility to your team and clients to keep this as your north star. Although 2 things can also be true. The 2nd is that you also must realize that no leader can do […]
Leadership Lesson: The Best Idea
Spoiler Alert! As a leader, you do NOT have to have the best idea. Release yourself from the burden. Also, humble yourself. Instead.. Realize that as a leader, your job is to aggregate the BEST idea to serve your team & clients. Sometimes that’s yours. Sometimes it’s not. And that’s OK! You must stay HUMBLE. […]
Leadership Lesson: What Leadership Is Not
SPOILER ALERT!! Leadership is NOT about making people happy. It’s about helping them. Very basic concept, but extremely profound. Why is this challenging? Because when you lead someone, the truth is many sometimes they won’t be happy with you. But that’s ok and is your job as a leader. Need an example that universally relates? […]
Leadership Lesson: 4 Stoic Virtues: Recap
Over the last few weeks, we have learned about the 4 pillars of Stoic Philosophy. Why is this important? In leadership, you need to control your internal thoughts/mind. As your thoughts/mind control your actions. And your actions control your results. Success is an inside job, my friend. And when you use the 4 virtues of […]
Leadership Lesson: 4 Stoic Virtues: Moderation
Moderation or Temperance is the 4th stoic virtue. I intentionally left it until the end. Why? Candidly, I struggle with most with this being I am recovering alcoholic & addict. Thus, I cannot talk with an overwhelming amount of authority here. That’s the ugly truth. And while in some ways I have improved drastically, in […]