How to tell if you are a manager or a leader

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The best speeches transform our life

 

How to tell if you are a manager or a leader:

Next time you attend a leadership class, seminar, conference see if your thoughts go like this (either one or the other):

1. Wow, my leader sure has a lot of improvements to make.
2. I sure hope the speaker ends soon so I can go get started on making personal changes.

You’re welcome.

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Do you write a lot of stuff about how great you are on the self evaluation forms?

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Submitted my MBA final project assignment on the eve of September 11

 

Person 1: Are you ready for your annual work evaluation?

Person 2: Yes.

Person 1: Do you write a lot of stuff about how great you are on the self evaluation forms?

Person 2: Yes… but it doesn’t matter.

Person 1: Then why do you write so much stuff?

Person 2: So I can look back and have a record of all the stuff I did.

Person 1: Ok.

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Can we overcome the burning desire, and should we?

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At Disney, Safety takes a backseat to nothing (a guiding principle today?) (photo from 2005)

 

The big question this morning is how well do over achiever’s follow Doctors orders?

Hoping a lifetime of focus and discipline will overcome the burning desire temptation to be present at Mike’s Celebration of Life in five hours.

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Letting go may be the only way to enlightened leadership

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Passing through the Convention Center at a big Hotel

 

Letting go may be the only way to enlightened leadership.

Many folks are great managers, managing things, projects, teams.

Then there’s this notion of leading people, not managing them – but leading them to a place where they’ve never been before.

And then the process begins – to establish a consistent, new normal and improve upon that – what was once viewed as impossible.

The key is removing any barrier inhibiting our complete surrender to any personal agenda.

This is a battle over self first, before it will work to transform business.

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