Very Interesting Question

Guess
Guess

Perhaps a third leadership value or skill would be “showing a sincere interest in you“.

Someone once told me you can tell a lot about a person with one question:

  • “Are you a Dog-person or a Cat-person?”

Dog-people are always friendly.

Cat-people are friendly sometimes and other times not.

Though this example is completely unscientific, the fact is, no one cares how much the leader knows, until they know how much the leader cares.

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Effective Leadership Is Like?

Great Leadership Is Like Oxygen (on the Moon)
Great Leadership Is Like Oxygen (on the Moon), Rare

Great Leadership is something everyone talks about, many speak about, and fewer still, write about. Do you perceive a difference between good leaders and great leaders?

Have you figured out where great leadership starts? I mean, have you made up your own mind? Or do you rely on a bestselling leadership book to pretend you know?

Have you analyzed the degree of self-awareness and individual effort that’s required to be a great leader versus a good leader? If you have, great. If you haven’t here’s where to look (and it ain’t the book store):

Your mirror.

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Leaders Are Wrong

A Spoon Full of Sugar (Laughter) Helps the Medicine Go Down
A Spoon Full of Sugar (Laughter) Helps the Medicine Go Down

This post was inspired a minute ago by a comment I left on Mike Reardon’s Blog:

Leaders are wrong sometimes. Babe Ruth once held the home run record. He once, and maybe still does, held the strike out record too.

The bottom line, you have to make decisions, like which pitch looks like a good one, trust your intuition, and swing away.

The more mistakes you make, the more successful you’ll become.

Life, and leadership, is not a spectator sport.

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