Tag: leadership

What Is Love?

When your kitchen and dining room involve a stump and a log, you know the value of Love.
Orcas Island, Puget Sound 1984
We were not expecting company.

What is love’s place in leadership? Is it important and appropriate, or does it make a leader soft, vulnerable and weak?

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The Most Important Result On Any Leadership Survey Is This…

Trust is developed over time. In five years, when he's 16, there should be enough trust to turn over the keys.

The first thing I race to after receiving leadership survey results (where people rated me), is this question: How often do you trust your leader:

  • Always
  • Most of the time
  • Sometimes yes, sometimes no
  • Rarely
  • Never

It’s easy to see why the only acceptable answer is obvious.

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The Top Three Leadership Non-Negotiables, In Order Of Importance

Parents trust I'll make healthy choices, and respect me for that, as I show the boys grilled chicken, baked potato and milk are better options.

Profoundly simple. Simply profound. Top three leadership non-negotiables every employee needs to thrive:

  1. Trust me
  2. Respect me
  3. Develop me

Notice that if #1 isn’t present, the other two won’t be either.

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