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“If people are going to do their best, they must be internally motivated” – Kouzes & Posner Leadership Challenge 4th Edition

Real success in energizing an organization or a community or a tribe comes from a shared vision and spontaneous motivation. By “spontaneous” I mean “controlled and directed internally,” and “produced without being planted or without human labor,” (both from Merriam Webster Online Dictionary). [click to continue…]

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Character-based leadership creates energy. Character-based leaders lead out of who they are rather than their position.  They don’t manipulate; they inspire.  Their character, personality, gifts, values, beliefs and behaviors communicate to the whole team and other stakeholders that they are part of the team.  They share the goals and objectives of the team and serve the team in pursuit of that goal.

The team rewards those leaders with energy.   [click to continue…]

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February Tweet Chat

February 16, 2010

With short notice we held the February Tweet Chat yesterday.  The topic of conversation: “How can we help each other build character-based leadership in our communities?”  Because of the short notice and the holiday, participation was down but ideas shared were meaningful and worthwhile.  Like John Watt said late in the hour, this was the [...]

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Three Promises of Character-Based Leadership

February 4, 2010

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 of 3 [...]

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Applied Leadership

February 1, 2010

The January Tweet Chat using the #LeadChange hashtag we asked the question, “How are you doing?”  Remember in the first chat in December, we had quite a few people commit to applying character-based leadership to make a positive difference.  In fact, Make a Positive Difference was the title of the post where we reviewed the [...]

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Sources of Leadership

January 29, 2010

The way I see it there are only two sources of leadership.  Will you lead because we are in a position of leadership or because you are a person of leadership?
“Leadership is influence.” John Maxwell
Position
Some people think of a leader as the person “in charge.”  If the person in charge was a better leader or [...]

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Make a Positive Difference

December 17, 2009

Tweet Chat
Last Thursday we held the inaugural Lead Change Tweet Chat.  The topic was “How can you apply character-based leadership to make a positive difference in 2010?” In one hour over 100 people joined in the “conversation” and made over 600 posts. Some of my friends have seen the transcript and called the event chaos.  [...]

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