When will our health become as (or more) important as our career?
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When does our career become more important than our health?
Tag: Priorities
Pretty sure this ain’t emphasized in business school
(photo: MBA = managing business administration… it gets real when it’s yours, not someone else’s.)
First rule of negotiation.
Be able and willing to walk away from every opportunity.
Not being able to walk away cripples your soul.
Pretty sure this ain’t emphasized in business school enough to be the first rule of negotiation. It’s covered, but not emphatically driven home.
It gets real when your MBA is your business administration, not a piece of paper and resume booster.
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Are leaders really just environmentalists?
The most important thing a leader can do probably isn’t on their list today.
Nobody’s perfect.
Shame isn’t it?
Won’t be on the agenda tomorrow either.
Why?
One of the great mysteries in business.
Probably has something to do with the bottom-line and all that.
The leader’s job is to create an exceptional environment.
Is profit the goal or is profit the reward?
These two approaches create the DNA of the environment.
Each approach has a direct and proportional ripple effect on employees.
We pick one whether we are conscious of it or not.
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Maybe what we are doing as leaders doesn’t matter (at all)
(photo: Old middle school scoreboard… may never be used again)
Many things to measure as a leader to influence prioritized decision making.
Some things we measure will never matter.
And some things we can’t measure may be the only things that matter.
Good luck leaders.
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Leadership in the 21st Century is about surviving the political process
Leadership in the 21st Century is about surviving the political process.
Similar to war, it’s survival of the fittest. It’s also a competiton between the most motivated.
Been like this since prehistoric times.
Fast forward to Spring 2014.
The job of the instructor in the classroom is to create something that is transformational. Something that is irresistible and remarkable. Something people want more of…
And something they’ll pay whatever it costs to get it done.
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