Career fitness is tied to career dissatisfaction

Gravestone with profound life goal, At Peace
Are we at peace with our work life?

 

As long as we live in a parent child relationship with our boss, we will never feel like the captain of our own ship.

Our fitness will require pain. No pain, no gain.

And remember the physical equivalent. We can endure the pain and inconvenience of exercise, or the pain and inconvenience of poor health.

Can we endure the pain of always being the child at work?

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Why we completely ignore the inherent connection between writing and leadership

Two workers in a cruise ship water slide tube
We can observe a alot by paying attention

 

The inherent connection between writing and leadership is frequently missing from advice, tips, strategies and tactics.

Why? Because as leaders, we’re too busy to write. At least that’s what we tell ourselves.

But in order to be a good great leader, we must spend time thinking. That’s our job. To think about, envision and constantly share our clear, concise, and compelling vision of the future.

And find a million ways to keep the fire white hot.

Yet we quickly and unintentionally ignore this fact:

That others will be thinking about our clear, concise, compelling vision in direct proportion to our own thinking.

And if we do a “once and done” campaign, imagine our ripple effect on our team.

Which has us finishing where we started…

A writer must write. And to write, a writer must think. So if a writer stops writing, does the writer then stop thinking as well?

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Nothing is so rare as self confidence, nothing so abundant as the opposite

Book Lean In by Sheryl Sandberg
All Baby Boomers struggle with self-confidence

 

Nothing is so rare as self confidence, nothing so abundant as the opposite.

Way too many of us struggle with self confidence. Why?

We shouldn’t be struggling.

Take a 53 year old Baby Boomer for example. That’s like being an 18-year old with 35 years of experience.

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Perhaps the biggest administrative part of leadership are these two duties

photo of Disney's Grand Floridian Resort and Spa's lobby Christmas decorations
a 15-year career in Resort Operations was left behind to follow a new, uncertain path

 

Perhaps the biggest administrative part of leadership are these two duties:

  1. making decisions
  2. trusting the decisions others make

The pitfall is waiting too long, waffling, worrying, and ultimately, not deciding – and getting left behind or becoming irrelevant.

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Leaders must develop the ability to master these five unconventional tactics

abe lincoln
whatever you are, be a good one – abe lincoln

 

We must demonstrate mastery of these five unconventional tactics before we graduate from manager to leader:

1. discern the most important point of every critical theory
2. be world class at focus and discipline
3. paint a clear, concise, and compelling picture of the future
4. demonstrate (invisibly) world class habits that deliver world class results
5. be the model for work life balance and wellness

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