Most leaders (and parents) struggle to be authentic enough to inspire

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Teens (right w/chopsticks) and people in general are starving for great leadership

 

Parent to child is like leader to direct report.

At it’s best it is honesty and trust – with no exceptions.

It is in being willing to fight (to the ‘death’, if necessary) for this relationship – at any cost.

It is fearlessly taking the lead.

Why?

To teach.

Why?

To grow more leaders.

Better leaders.

Even better than ourselves.

That’s what helped us, right?

How would we not spend our lives repaying the debt of gratitude?

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Two ideas to encourage organizational leadership

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Two simple ideas that could change everything, everyday

 

Two ideas to encourage going above and beyond all day, everyday:

  1. Give employees something more compelling to do besides their job
  2. Make the compelling thing mandatory for every employee, no exceptions

This is the game changer most have never heard of.

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We go straight to unlimited x-rated viewing with one simple click

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There are many ways to raise a child – do we begin with the end in mind?

 

Yesterday a 9th grader visited the 7th and 8th graders and was sharing with them how his father taught him extensively about money. From the time he was a little boy he was shown the bills, payments, investments – he saw them all and even had to sign off that he read them.

Fast forward this same boy to 7th and 8th grade and the Internet.

The fatherly advice for free, unlimited, unrestricted Internet access? “Don’t go on You Tube, there’s bad stuff there”.

Not judging (even if it sounds like it). Rather, observing the difference in detail.

We teach what we know. Don’t we?

An expert money manager? For sure.

An Internet expert in the new, global social economy? You decide.

Online predators, pornography, hackers, bullies, age-inappropriate options.

The Academy of Motion Picture Sciences has ratings and we heed these and use our discretion.

The Internet? We go straight to unlimited x-rated viewing with one simple click.

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