Posts tagged as:

Leadership

We have talked about vision in previous posts such as Can You Taste It?, Energize, Mobilize & Guide, Shared Vision, Align Your Vision and Own Your Vision.  As a follow up to the whole series, let’s do a short check to see how you’re doing at deciding what’s most important.

As the leader of your team, you make choices every few minutes.  Even as a contributor, more and more these days, you have some control over how you spend your time.  You decide to attend meetings, write software or return customer calls or talk with a team member about some deliverable.  You make literally hundreds of choices per hour.

What is Urgent?

Some of the things you choose are important and some are urgent.  You know the urgent choices — the ones that must be done right now.  Important tasks take longer to identify and complete.  Often the most important tasks are the most strategic; requiring time and coordination to implement.  Urgent problems demand attention.   [click to continue…]

{ 2 comments }

Social media entered another dimension this past weekend. At least for me.  It took on a third dimension, and a fourth!

I met 13 members of the Lead Change Group face to face this past weekend at LeaderPalooza.  The third dimension was the people. What a great group of new comrades-in-arms.  The fourth dimension is the tangible creative energy that the group ignited in my spirit.

I took away 4 ideas from LeaderPalooza: [click to continue…]

{ 7 comments }

Thumbnail image for Own Your Vision

Own Your Vision

February 22, 2010

We’ve had several posts now about vision.  Have you “seen” the common thread between them?  We discussed the need to be able to articulate your vision in a way that makes your stakeholder’s salivate.  We also talked about the value of a shared vision, how it energizes and mobilizes your team and how you need [...]

Read the full article →
Thumbnail image for Align your Vision and Purpose

Align your Vision and Purpose

February 17, 2010

We have talked about vision in previous posts such as Energize, Mobilize & Guide, and

Read the full article →
Thumbnail image for February Tweet Chat

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 [...]

Read the full article →
Thumbnail image for Favorite Posts of 2009

Favorite Posts of 2009

February 11, 2010

Finally.  Everyone else did their year-end recap around the end of the year.  As you have learned by now, I’m not everyone else.  But I still got the list together.  These posts are my 10 favorites or most popular posts for 2009.  If you’re newer to the blog, I hope you get a chance to [...]

Read the full article →
Thumbnail image for Positive Office Politics

Positive Office Politics

February 10, 2010

This is part of a series of posts organized and arranged by Jane Perdue. You can find the introduction here and the post on networking by Jennifer V. Miller at her blog The People Equation. I also posted on Sincerity and Office Politics and Susan Mazza followed with a great post on the [...]

Read the full article →
Thumbnail image for Deliver the Promise

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 [...]

Read the full article →
Thumbnail image for Three Promises of Character-Based Leadership

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 [...]

Read the full article →
Thumbnail image for What Is LeaderPalooza, Anyway?

What Is LeaderPalooza, Anyway?

February 2, 2010

We’ve spoken quit a bit about LeaderPalooza but more than one person has asked for clarification. Much of what we’ve said to date refers to what LeaderPalooza is not, rather than what it is.  It’s not even a conference, but rather an un-conference!
So what is LeaderPalooza going to be anyway?
LeaderPalooza will be a small gathering [...]

Read the full article →