Lead Change Group

This series on inspiration just keeps going and going.  Here’s a third post.  Who knows how long I can go with this? Have you chosen to inspire people.  Leaders inspire.  Did you accept the thought I reported in the previous post that Simon Sinek stated that there are only two ways to get someone to [...]

Linchpin is a fairly important recent book by Seth Godin.  Most of the concepts in the book aren’t new and have been presented in many other books including The Fred Factor by Mark Sanborn.  Many times the way the author makes a point or the current state of the economy may serve to add impact [...]

Have you ever witnessed a miracle? It isn’t every day that a planet is formed or a spaceship lands in Mississippi or someone walks on water.  But I’ve started asking people that question. I don’t have a lot of results in yet, but there are only about 4 different answers you can give: never, once, [...]

Maybe it’s time we started a little global warming. Oh, I’m not talking about the planet’s surface temperature.  I’m talking about a different kind of warmth.  When people know one another and share a mutual appreciation, there is said to be a warmth between them.  When those people actually work together to make a positive [...]

“If people are going to do their best, they must be internally motivated” – Kouzes & Posner Leadership Challenge 4th Edition Real success in energizing an organization or a community or a tribe comes from a shared vision and spontaneous motivation. By “spontaneous” I mean “controlled and directed internally,” and “produced without being planted or [...]

Character-based leadership creates energy. Character-based leaders lead out of who they are rather than their position.  They don’t manipulate; they inspire.  Their character, personality, gifts, values, beliefs and behaviors communicate to the whole team and other stakeholders that they are part of the team.  They share the goals and objectives of the team and serve [...]

Social media entered another dimension this past weekend. At least for me.  It took on a third dimension, and a fourth! I met 13 members of the Lead Change Group face to face this past weekend at LeaderPalooza.  The third dimension was the people. What a great group of new comrades-in-arms.  The fourth dimension is [...]

Do you inspire a vision of the future that energizes, mobilizes and guides your organization?  Would you objectively say your team is inspired or energized by the team’s goal, or by the time remaining until they get off work? This is the third post on vision.  Other posts about vision are Can You Taste It? [...]

I just disabled Windows Update for some of my “important” security updates.  It’s a lengthy story; but the whole ordeal drove home some important leadership lessons. Let’s discuss the lesson first and provide details for the interested later. Can you recall ever feeling helpless? There’s nothing more frustrating than knowing that you can’t accomplish what [...]

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve been talking about strengths.  This is the final post in a 5-part evaluation of Strengths. Strengths are the combination of Energy, Talents and Passions. But strengths without achievement are nothing.  Achievement, significant, material, long lasting, world-changing achievements seem to always result from the application of strengths. Therefore I suggest the [...]