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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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Deliver the Promise

February 7, 2010

We’ve had a couple of posts about character based leadership as a starter for discussions that will take place at LeaderPalooza Feb 19-20, 2010 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.  You can find the other posts on character-based leadership under the titles Sources of Leadership and Three Promises of Character-based Leadership.  Also, you can click the LeaderPalooza [...]

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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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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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Stand Out

Unique Difference

October 2, 2009

What does it take to be truly unique? What do you do that no one can reproduce?
A meeting I had this week caused me to think a great deal about this. This person said that they sought out people who were truly unique and that could make an impact to their company’s [...]

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