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Social media, as with most things in life, can be exploited for personal gain or maximized as a tool for sharing, giving and inspiring others to live to their biggest and best potential. Are you in it to win it – for yourself, or for others? It’s that simple, and that complicated. At one end [...]

As a lad, I lived for Saturday morning cartoons. Long before DVR, a boy needed an alarm clock catch the Super-Friends at 6 AM. And though a wide assortment of cartoons whizzed by until Noon, there was a consistent message throughout: “They’re GREAT!”  See that was the catch-phrase of Tony the Tiger, the cartoon pitchman [...]

“Other men will make other violins, but no man shall make a better one.” Antonius Stradivarius

While sipping my morning coffee the other day, I stumbled upon an interesting Op-Ed piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks entitled The Summoned Self.  In it, he outlines two possible ways of thinking about one’s life:

Nothing puts air in our sails like a noble purpose. But many of us work for businesses where our focus is to simply outperform last quarter. If you can’t manage your purpose, you can still inspire your co-workers. When you bring the best of who you are to the job or the project or the [...]

The more I think about character-based leadership and the leadership traits I want to model, I keep coming back to the gap between who you lead and who you serve.  Character-based leaders tend to line those up pretty closely.  The question seems to be: How big is your “WE”?

I watched Saving Private Ryan yesterday.  It was the first time I had seen the movie all the way through.  I enjoy great movies, but few sad ones. I knew enough about this movie to know it was sad.  I also knew the plot and story.  It is truly an inspired classic. James Francis Ryan [...]

We have talked about vision in previous posts such as Energize, Mobilize & Guide,

We have talked about vision in previous posts such as Energize, Mobilize & Guide, and

In our group, we’ve had a lot of conversation about character-based leadership.  This is the second post in a series on character-based leadership.  The first was Sources of Leadership. What result does character-based leadership promise? What makes our type of leadership different? So I thought about the question for a few minutes. Quickly, I thought [...]