The Achilles Heel: that fatal weakness which can bring you down despite your overall strength. For otherwise outstanding leaders, it is a lack of clarity. You may be a brilliant motivator and leader of great character who empowers their team for success and inspires them to move to action. You may be trustworthy and a leader who lives […]
My Leadership Chat Co-Host, Steve Woodruff, and I are thrilled to be welcoming John Jantsch of Duct Tape Marketing as tomorrow night’s Guest Host. John’s company helps small businesses lead and succeed, and one of the topics we’ll be covering is priority management for leaders. Now, as I have alluded to in previous posts, I am […]
There are world-changing leaders who inspire their followers to a shining city upon a hill, and there are misguided leaders who head their followers “off a cliff.” And then there are real-world leaders like Steve Ferkau who inspire hundreds of people to climb thousands of stairs because their hearts and minds are guided by purpose and love and the […]
At last week’s Leadership Chat we celebrated our one-year anniversary. After some time spent reflecting on the past year, we began to look forward and asked the Chat participants to share their insights on the most critical leadership attributes of our time; attributes that will set leaders apart now and in the future. Here […]
As you might expect for a blog passionate about Visionary Leadership, I’ve heretofore tackled the business-altering difference between vision and mission, and the critical difference between vision and goals. But it was in the comments of last week’s post about why business vision matters more in this economy that I was asked an important question […]
Don’t you wish instead of celebrating “Labor Day” we were celebrating “Passion Day?” By asking that question I am in no way belittling the intrinsic meaning of Labor Day. I think the way the US Department of Labor describes Labor Day as a yearly national tribute to: the contributions workers have made to the strength, […]