“In times of change learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.” – Eric Hoffer Understandably, we all tend to be impressed by people who are successful. When it comes to leaders, we tend to look at those who’ve done really well and … Read more
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.” – C.G. Jung If I asked you to list capabilities that are critical for leaders to have here in the 21st century, what would you come up with? You might have something about technology, or continuous learning, or … Read more
“Management is doing things right. Leadership is doing the right things.” – Peter Drucker One of the critical things leaders need to be thinking about in our current world is focus. We are constantly bombarded by change in our businesses, technology, people, customers, etc. Some days it’s hard to know where to look. There are … Read more
“I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.” – Georg C. Lichtenberg One of the things I hear a lot of in my career is how hard people’s lives are. A “How are things going?” quite often draws … Read more
“Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi An all too common refrain from business owners when I ask them why they haven’t done or aren’t doing something that seems worth doing is “I’m just too busy”. Sometimes it’s “I just don’t have time” or “I haven’t had time to get to that” or something like that, … Read more
“It’s a terrible thing to see and have no vision.” – Helen Keller One of the things I hear leaders complain about on a regular basis is how hard it is to build commitment to change across an entire organization. Everybody has kick-off events, or gives fantastic sounding motivational talks, or some other great idea, … Read more
“I’m facing Niagara Falls – the wind and the mist and the dark and the peregrine falcons – and I’m going to stay focused on the other side.” – Nik Wallenda One of my areas of improvement for 2018 is focus. There are so many possibilities and so many ideas and so many challenges that … Read more
“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln There’s a great movie from the early 90’s called Groundhog Day. In that movie the main character keeps reliving the same day over and over again. No matter what happens, he wakes up the … Read more
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them.” – Rabindranath Tagore More and more it seems to me that a vast number of people have a common goal in life. I don’t know that it’s a new thing, but I’ve not really been conscious of it until … Read more
“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” – Abraham Lincoln Virtually every organization in the world has a leader, at least in theory. Somebody is the President, or the Chairwoman, or the CEO, or whatever. That person is officially designated as the leader. Unfortunately, just because you have the title doesn’t … Read more
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