Do you measure up? Do you ever catch yourself finding excuses for inaction? Striving for perfection can make us better or it can paralyze us.
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Do you bring energy to your own leadership development? Or do you need someone else to provide it? Leadership is a muscle. Either you make it stronger or it weakens by itself.
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A new book by Karin Hurt and David Dye titled Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results — Without Losing Your Soul is out and you need to get a copy. Trust me. Or not. You can check out the review I posted over on Lead Change Group.
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It takes patience to change anything. Change is hard. When the change involves others, often patience is the only weapon you have at your disposal.
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How do you react when something happens to delay the outcome you are working toward? What role do expectations play in the exercise of patience?
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Once, I made a foolish statement to a coworker out of anger and had another attitude adjustment. I learned a valuable lesson about respect. Don’t make the same mistakes I made. Character-based leaders understand genuine respect based on true humility is currency.
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What would you say are the most deflating activities made by your leaders? Check out my list of 13 and add any you think are missing!
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My first management job felt like boot camp or pledge week for 2 years. Almost everything I did was wrong or hard, and I used to say “half of what I know and everything I didn’t know was bad.” It was a draining and trying time.
My life returned and my development as a leader progressed only when I started to embrace new (for me) ideas for leadership. I call those Attitude Adjustments. You can read about the others here. Today’s adjustment, the 4th in this series, is the idea that everyone leads.
I spent several years as a bad boss. I reacted poorly to the stress of my new leadership position and I developed a bad temper. I became (more) insensitive, explosive, negative and critical. And I micro managed. Much of what I now read or write about leadership challenges me to apologize to those people who used to work with me.
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I learned 3 important leadership lessons from the choices my Dad made in 1957. Face your challenges, don’t compromise and people matter.
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Mike Henry Sr. 