Disney Brand Loyalty Keynote Speaker
Five daily blogs about life's 5 big choices on five different sites.
Tonight a friend retires at age 55.
How will the people gathered there to celebrate feel about her age?
Happy and ecstatic for her?
Bitter or jealous it’s not them?
We can wish and we can hope, but nothing makes dreams come true faster than these four things:
How can we know for sure?
Guessing our friend doesn’t know for sure, but she’s willing to move forward anyway, with a disproportionately greater sense of hope than the average.
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Be careful what you wish for dude.
In my line of work, I seem to see a lot more than most. – Jimmy Buffett
A seasoned, busy management consultant sees similar life scenarios played out in business.
The time for average is way past over.
Yet many business professionals slog on, in spite of the insanity of it all.
The only upside to this prison sentence is that most nights the prisoner can sleep at home.
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Business Consultants see this all the time…
Leadership is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re going to get.
One said…
It’s a little bit like a fox in the hen house.
Another one thought, You’re kidding right… you cannot be serious?
Too much preaching and not enough practicing makes a leader ineffective.
How toxic is ineffective leadership?
Just ask the team. They’ll tell you.
Genuine listening implies acting on the most important, overwhelmingly recognizable issues.
And maybe there is one singular issue that has the power to be the game changer.
Then the constituents wait. And wait. And wait.
Why?
Because the people who make the rules have an extraordinary opportunity to lead in an admirable way, and to live by the rules they proclaim.
Otherwise, it’s just another in a long list of busy (and successful, depending on the metrics used) managers talking a great talk.
So the constituents wait for different behaviors that will be easily identifiable.
The behaviors demonstrating commitment, and integrity.
And some leaders wonder why there is silence when they ask for feedback.
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It matters little to walk to do our preaching, if not our walking, is the preaching.
An all time favorite that grounds us in truth immediately.
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When we work from our heart, we must remain mindful that in the big picture, no one will miss us when we are gone.
Even though people tell us how great and important we are right now.
Know the feeling?
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