photo by Chris Karidis on Unsplash Leadership Distinction #21: History Your history lives in memory. Generate tomorrow’s memorable history — today Leaders typically have better than ordinary powers of observation. It’s impossible to...
photo by Wonderland on Unsplash Leadership Distinction #20: Language Speak into the world what you seek from the world We all use language to describe the world around us. Leaders use this descriptive language, too. Except they use it...
Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash Finding it hard to find meaning? Your Actions Will Reveal It is easy to get twisted into a cognitive and conversational pretzel when trying to explain what meaning is. We grapple with the meaning of meaning. But for...
courtesy of Danielle MacInnes on Unsplash By all means, start something. Just don’t over-“do” it The Starting a business is sheer boldness in action. Notwithstanding the large number of companies that are launched each year the...
courtesy of Taha Ajmi on Unsplash The secret to rewriting business strategy in the pandemic era: co-authors. The single most difficult thing for the person who seeks to lead is to imagine a specifically better tomorrow to pursue. But you have to do...
Fortify your intention with transparent clarity Between the belief in what we imagine we are capable of, and the action we take to bring it about, lies our Intention. Intention may be simply expressed as what you as the leader wants, with...
courtesy of Jay Heike on Unsplash Practice mindfulness here. Or else. In an age that speaks positively about emotional intelligence and mindfulness, the word Habit has evolved to mostly represent a negative connotation. When we acknowledge our...
William James The Meaning is in the Action. The Truth is in the Result. The great philosophies of ancient history didn’t give a red cent about business. Trading wasn’t a matter deemed worthy of concern for the likes of Plato or Aristotle or even...
Your business is a Mission of service. Tell the world about it. Lots of business people get confused between company Mission statements and vision statements. It’s time to clear this up, and in the process make our Missions clear...
Do not broadcast your company’s Vision Statement. Here’s why: The Vision that many companies document and issue out to the world as statements of direction do not read like Visions at all. And because they fail to describe...