One non-negotiable skill all leaders must possess is the ability to help those they influence get better. You must be able to take people from “here” to “there”. And this requires improving their skill. You may have missed it this past week but major league baseball had its opening day. Unlike pro football and pro […]
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25 Lessons On The Best Team Money Can Buy
Smart leaders know the importance of building great teams. Teams allow you to accomplish far more than you ever could by yourself. Teambuilding is a skill all successful leaders have developed. I just finished Molly Knight’s great book The Best Team Money Can Buy. Molly effectively chronicles the story of the 2013 and 2014 Los […]
8 Practices Of Highly Successful Leaders
It is an interesting thing about success. Two different people can look at the same leader. One thinks the leader has underachieved. Another thinks he is at or near the top of his profession. This is the plight of the St. Louis Cardinals manager Mike Matheny. Can you relate? Because the team has recently come […]
15 Practices Of The Very Best (Apex) Leaders
In my book The 10 Indispensble Practices Of The 2-Minute Leader (click HERE to order), I introduced the concept of the Apex Leader. Apex Leaders are those individuals who are the very best at what they do. Over the next six weeks I will be bringing approximately two dozen profiles of Apex Leaders and Apex […]
This May Be The Reason You Are Not Having Success
Many leaders are impatient. I get it. One of the gifts set aside solely for leaders is vision. Leaders see in their mind a picture of a preferred future. This glimpse of what could be drives leaders forward…sometimes at an unhealthy pace. If they are not careful, a compelling vision can make leaders impatient and […]
19 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From The Man Who Has Read EVERY John Maxwell Book
People who know me know John Maxwell is my spiritual hero. One of the great joys of my life was getting to work for him for several years. I can name all 21 Irrefutable Laws Of Leadership backwards in alphabetical order. Well, not really but close. But I have met my match. One of my […]
15 Practices Of Leaders Who Experience Unexpected Success
Great leaders simply make teams better – especially teams who should not be very good. They take teams with limited resources, average talent, low expectations and few options and get them to perform at unexpectedly high levels of excellence. If you are facing an uphill battle as a leader, the following insights are for you. […]