The notion of perfection is a fallacy, especially when it comes to leadership. The most effective leaders are those willing to look in the mirror, embrace their blind spots and modify that which is not working well for them or others. Like an athlete at the top of her game, there is always opportunity to improve. While conducting a personal SWOT analysis helps you self-assess your leadership … [Read more...]
How do you spend your most important asset?
24 hours a day, 168 hours a week, or 8,736 hours a year. That’s what we get. It’s the one resource we all have in common. The difference, of course, is how we each choose to spend this incredible gift of time. Off the top, most of us spend somewhere around 56 hours of each week sleeping. That leaves 112 waking hours a week. Then, if you take the “normal” workweek of … [Read more...]
How Does Your Leadership Wheel Roll?
There is a lot written about leadership. I mean A LOT! If you search for leadership books on Amazon, 21,907 hardback books come up. Must be a pretty important topic, or a lot of trees are sacrificing their lives for nothing. And, yet, leadership can be an amorphous topic and always easier to see than describe. It’s not one attribute or skill that defines leadership, it’s a … [Read more...]
The Value of Values as Your Compass
What do you value? Initially, you may have thought this an easy question to answer. Usually, we respond with some of the top of mind choices, like family, relationships, and health. All of which, of course, are important and critical. I invite you, however, to drill a little deeper and think about the values behind the values, if you will. For instance, what is it … [Read more...]