Everyone wants to work for a great leader

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(photo: Leadership theory… plenty of it… what’s in short supply are the folks who are remarkable at executing on it)

Everyone wants to work for a great leader.

Yet how many of us sign up to do the lifetime of uncomfortable (because it’s difficult) work required to be that person. A person identical to the great leader qualities and character we long for?

Hopefully all our hands are being raised.

Live like you mean it.

Lead like you mean it.

Pretty much the same thing.

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Great leaders don’t

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How do you feel when your boss calls you and says, “Can you come see me in my office?”

 

Great leaders tend to do things that matter. Good leaders don’t.

Trouble is, much of what matters can’t be measured and much of what can be measured doesn’t matter – not in the hearts of those we lead anyway.

Employees are starving to know their leadership team thinks the world of them.

Good leaders assume they know. Great leaders don’t.

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An unheralded part of being a leader is making each day special

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Be creative. Be hopeful. Be grateful.

 

An unheralded part of being a leader is making each day special.

Easy to glorify and cheer for the month, quarter, year, or record setting achievements.

Yesterday – Father’s Day – was a solemn reminder.

Wife and son out of state taking care of important Family business.

A Dad, a leader, all alone.

Sad?

Not in a million years.

We have come to know the true meaning of Father’s day when we learn to celebrate it every single day.

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