by Noah Buscher on Unsplash Leadership Distinction #29: Authentic This kind of trust is a gamble — but it’s a gamble you must take At the turn of the century Robert Solomon and Fernando Flores introduced a practical and clear way of...
by Reimond de Zuniga on Unsplash Leadership Distinction #27: Influence The Follower decides when you may lead No matter the topic of our interest there always seems to be some key, salient truth that commonly, and curiously, gets overlooked in the...
Leadership Distinction #27: Influence When you take center stage ask your audience to join you When you attempt to secure the commitment of a follower your ability to Influence is center stage. What you offer for a reason to follow you is...
photo by Emmanuel Zua on Unsplash Leadership Distinction #26: Charisma How to be consciously charismatic If there is a leadership topic that draws the interest of everyone it is the art and practice of what draws the interest of one person toward...
photo by Anna Pritchard on Unsplash Leadership Distinction #25: Story Connecting heart to heart trumps connecting mind to mind Why are leaders impressed upon to find a way to communicate with followers and prospective followers alike via stories...
photo by Cristina Gottardi on Unsplash Leadership Distinction #23: Presence Mastery isn’t domination. It’s surrender. Contrary to conventional thinking, mastery is not command over something. It is really surrender to something. Unlike...
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...