This is a tough pill to swallow

Patty Smyth CD 1992
Yesterday while writing, between Buffett and Springsteen…Patty Smyth.

 

How many of us when we were young would settle for what we have now?

Career success and career happiness are often mutually exclusive.

It’s just so easy to play it safe.

So we do.

And we settle.

For safety.

Safety doesn’t deliver success or happiness.

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Are we aware of our question’s focus?

Airport bookstore sign
Atlanta airport bookstore sign two days ago.

 

Are we aware of our question’s focus?

What do i need to know today is a good question.

But it doesn’t become a great question until we add a prioritized context.

Most of us skip this step because of the increased degree of difficulty in thinking through the bigger picture beyond today’s to-do list.

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Paint, draw, sculpt, photograph, and so on

Montessori Art Festival
We generally think of art as the creation of something visual.

 

Last night’s Montessori School (Toddlers to 8th grade) Art Festival was inspiring. And isn’t that the way we frame up (heuristically?) our definition of art?

Paint, draw, sculpt, photograph, and so on.

Think about what you do for a living 20 to 80+ hours a week.

Do you ever think of yourself as an artist?

And if no, why?

If yes, how hard do you push yourself?

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The good lie is a skeptic’s best friend

The Good Lie movie

 

The Good Lie movie

 

The Good Lie movie

 

The good lie is the skeptic’s best friend because a lie worth telling is the supreme demonstration of love. Watched The Good Lie yesterday on an iPhone during the flight from Disneyland to Walt Disney World. An inspiring story of tragedy and hope.

 

 

Love and leadership have no place in the West’s dog-eat-dog business world.

That’s what we’ve come to believe.

Focus on business results. Increase shareholder value.

What if we’re wrong?

What if love is the ticket to organizational growth?

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The crowning achievement of leadership

Disney Leadership Speakers
This photo just arrived via Bob Stewart on LinkedIn.

 

(Note: Just as this post was being completed, the photo above went live on LinkedIn, thanks to Bob Stewart from Georgia.)

Perhaps the crowning achievement of leadership is being able to provide others with the same type of game changing opportunities that we were blessed with.

In the giving we receive.

Servant leadership.

Looks good on paper, but can we do it without thinking about it?

Workplace (and personal) culture is what we think and do, without thinking.

Being intentional is the most important characteristic determining whether your personal culture works for you or against you.

You are the CEO of You, Inc.

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