Three Steps Toward Servant Leadership
There is an ancient argument about what defines leadership. The central question buried within the argument is “are you truly leading people if they are compelled by your positional authority over them or do your truly lead when people want to do what you wish?” The difference between those two points is whether people accomplish…
Adopting A Servant Leader Strategy: 3 Practices of a Healthy Servant Leader
One of the defining cultural hallmarks of recent years has been the “selfie.” The ease of taking a photograph and immediately disseminating it through social media has set into place the seeming need to point attention to what someone has on their dinner plate or what nail color a person chose for the day. While…
How to Successfully Set Yourself Up to be Blindsided
One of the first and best admonitions I ever heard from a supervisor was “don’t ever let me be surprised.” What he meant in sharing this expectation was he never wanted to be caught in a position where new information that probably required action on his part was catching him unaware. In other words if…