Most (ego-centric) leaders aren’t fond of people like me

Father and Son at Disney World
Most ego-centric leaders have a big heart that competes with career ambitions, fear, and security.

 

Truth be told, most (ego-centric) leaders aren’t fond of me.

This used to bother me.

A lot.

So much so that i tried to change.

And in a way, i did, without selling out.

The creative solution (to keep personal integrity intact) is simply to only ask them questions if they ask for input.

Nothing asked, nothing offered.

Safe.

Meanwhile, writing became the outlet for asking uninvited questions.

Questions every leader should have a ready, instantaneous answer to, but, remarkably, don’t.

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The value proposition for seeing things differently

Bernadette Jiwa speaking at Authority Rainmaker 2015
Bernadette Jiwa speaking at Authority Rainmaker 2015 last week.

 

The email from a former client came through while working, about 1pm yesterday.

“Time for a quick call today?”

“Sure.”

When you do the right things for the right reasons and see profit as the reward, not the goal, Magic happens.

PS. Update 100 days later (today) a speaking contract came out of this conversation.

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Our morning routine controls our destiny

Banner about cheating
Yesterday at Gold’s Gym Orlando

 

Our morning routine controls our destiny.

Photo is from yesterday at Gold’s Gym.

Personal leadership means you should be need to be a model of health.

If you are not…explain personal integrity to me again.

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It’s your responsibility to set yourself on fire

Steve Jobs Mid Life Celebration phone
Did Steve Jobs have a premonition about Mid Life Celebration?

 

It’s your responsibility to set yourself on fire.

Period.

If you’re on fire with the passion to do excellent work, congratulations. And thank the CEO of You, Inc.

If you’re not on fire with the passion to do excellent work, good luck with influencing the CEO of You, Inc. You can’t fire her.

It’s really critical to say the obvious.

Anyone who has succeed at this has done so because of one reason. They have refused to let bullcrap excuses – the ones we all have – determine their destiny.

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