How well do you know yourself? How objective, really, are you about yourself? How rational is your assessment of yourself? How well do you understand what others think of you, how they perceive you, how you come across to them, what emotions and thoughts you trigger in them, what they say behind your back? How …
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Vision – Let’s go deeper.
This blog about leadership is inspired by, and often directly lifted from Peter Koestenbaum’s book: Leadership, The Inner Side of Greatness. The impact the book had on my life, and leadership, was magnified by discussions in a class I took at St. Thomas University, and of course, many great examples of leadership in my own …
4 Strategies of Leadership, and 4 Supporting Tactics
The measurement of Leadership is the size of a diamond bounded by the 4 principles: Vision, Reality, Ethics, and Courage. Not only size, but the shape of the diamond is also critical; as we covered in the previous blog, it is important not to have a “collapsed mind.” Let’s dive a little deeper into this …
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A Picture of Greatness
In the last blog, I made the claim that it is possible to measure greatness. In this blog, I hope to help you visualize greatness. Let me be clear – these are not my ideas, but are copied from Koestenbaum’s book Leadership, The Inner Side of Greatness. Per Koestenbaum’s Leadership Diamond model, the picture of …
Measuring the Greatness of a Leader
In the first blog of this series, I asked the question: “Is it possible to learn leadership?” Some insight came from 2 different perspectives: “looking at” and “looking along.” I believe there are many books and people teaching from the “looking at” perspective. In the second blog, I “looked at” leadership, compared it to management, …