Beware the leader too smart to be wise. What is a Diminisher? Author and consultant Liz Wiseman’s book, Multipliers, features two distinct and contrasting types of leaders; multipliers and diminishers. Multipliers are strong and ca ...
The Woodenhead Affliction In Action
Were you able to read our recent information on The Wooddenheaded Affliction in leadership? If not, take a minute to read it here, and then read below to learn about the Woodenheaded Affliction in action A tragic example. General Douglas Hai ...
The Woodenhead Affliction
"The greatest of sins is to be conscious of none." Introduction. What is Woodenheadedness? In The March of Folly: From Troy to Viet Nam, historian Barbara Tuchman describes human history as the “unfolding of miscalculation,” ...
The Impact Of Reality-Editing Leaders
We hope you have been following along in our series of The Impact of Reality-Editing Leaders. If you have not had a chance to read Part I, do so now, prior to reading this conclusion. Strategies of Reality-Editing Lead ...
The Genius Of Persistence: Part 2
It’s a common fallacy that great endeavors are accomplished with effortless grace—that the talent, gifting and genius of some people is so great, and the opportunities so many, that outcomes are achieved “all at once” with little effort. ...
Power Of Priority Series: Focusing Your Passion
Purpose connects us to our reason for living. Passion is the power to live out our purpose. Priorities focus our passion, and order our days and decades to accomplish our purpose. The dictionary definition of a priority is that wh ...
Passion Series: A Leader’s Most Valuable Asset
Passion born of noble purpose is the first quality of the leader, the primal source of sustained, effective leadership. The Global Leadership Forecast 2011 identifies passion as a key measure of leadership effectiveness. The term is used to descr ...
Passion Series: Where Purpose Meets Virtuous Passion
Purpose and Passion. If purpose is the destination, passion is the fuel to get there. If purpose is the reason for living, passion is the energy released to live every day according to that purpose, even and especially in the face of suffering. ...
Passion Series: How Correctly Defining Passion Will Energize & Define You As a Leader
The term passion is often misused and thus misunderstood. It is a common misconception that a passion is something we enjoy, or something we are intensely interested in—as in “she is passionate about gardening,” or “he is passionate about basebal ...
The Power Of Divine Purpose
The pioneering research of Harvard sociologist Gordon Allport established a connection between our instinctive spiritual questing and the energy released through the Zeigarnik effect.Echoing Zeigarnik, Allport found that goals that are never quite fu ...