What’s the most important organ in your body when it comes to exercising leadership? How can the most recent findings of neuroscience strengthen your leadership?
Which of your automatic patterns no longer serve you (or others)?
What do you want to do/be instead? (Use the practice of visualization to build this new capacity.)
What are you grateful for . . . right now? Take it in.
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The other night my son Aaron and I were making dinner – rice, beans, tortillas, lettuce, tomatoes, onions . . . “Where are the avocados?” he asked. Burritos without avocados? Something was definitely missing from our ingredient list.
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In this video I introduce our new program for creating cultures of accountability AND explain why leaders must be able to tell the difference between flies and butterflies.
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Imagine walking down a hot dusty road, when you come to a crossroads. There’s sign there, but the lettering has been bleached away by the sun. The road divides . . . you have to choose. But, how can you choose when you’re at the crossroads in life?
The crossroads is an uncomfortable place to be.
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I was heading for a showdown. Having finished my speaking gig, I was lugging a box of books and my arms ached. The guy coming down the hall didn’t look like he was going to step aside.
My head was pounding.
The tension from carrying the books and getting lost in the labyrinthine halls – had given me a headache.
And now, there’s this guy barreling down the hall at me.
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During a recent leadership program, a participant told the group, “You can never say ‘I don’t know’ to your team.”
I asked, “What would happen if you did?”
He said that if a leader admitted to not knowing, people would lose faith in him/her. The team’s confidence would plummet; energy and optimism about the future would wither.
Really?
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