Tag: leadership

The untold difference between a good leader and a great leader…

Walt Disney Legacy Award blue Cast Member name tag

 

(photo: Google Images. Notice the three words in gold?))

The untold difference between a great leader and a good leader…

Teaching versus telling.

There are a million ways to teach or tell.

Great leaders teach.

And because they teach, their workload should be more about inspiration than perspiration.

It’s the difference between leading and managing.

The difference is commitment versus compliance.

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Leadership includes everything at HQ

Young raccoon in live trap
Homeowners must make choices to keep up with the things that become issues

 

As a homeowner (leader, CEO), we are responsible for everything at our HQ.

Even the things that catch us off guard and clamor for our precious time and attention.

Two weekends ago we filled in 60 holes in our yard, dug by wild animals searching for food.

This digging, and the dangerous holes, will continue indefinitely unless the animals are caught and relocated to a nature preserve.

This is time consuming and distracting.

And necessary.

Figure it out. Right?

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This leadership issue almost exclusively is in our application

jungle jeff running through the east side of his hometown
Only one person in charge – the CEO of You, Inc

 

Having the information we need to be an effective leader is rarely the issue. This issue almost exclusively is in our application.

Consider this potential mind binder…

Who’s the best leader you’ve had in your career?

Second best?

We often make excuses about our lack of peak performance because our leader does or doesn’t do extraordinarily beneficial things.

Epiphany: We should be the best leader we’ve ever had.

And we are in charge of doing extraordinarily beneficial things for our career.

The headwaters of great leadership begins with self motivation and self mastery.

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