I believe that leadership is our scarcest resource and yet our most needed commodity. In business, politics, education, church & family – everything rises and falls on leadership. Today I wanted to explore leadership from the follower’s point of view, with three questions that every follower, consciously or unconsciously, asks about the leader. In a recent interview John Maxwell posed these questions – stating that every follower asks: -Do You Care For Me? -Can You Help Me? -Can I Trust You? Question #1 – Do You Care For Me? A follower first looks at do you care for me? Do you have a heart for me? What are your real motives? As a leader our motives need to be pure and we need to truly care for those we lead. Our heart comes through to those we lead in subtle ways. Are we inward focused (selfish) or outward focused (selfless)?
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Episode 1: Becoming A Broadway Star with Sandra Joseph (Christine Daae in Phantom of the Opera)
Have you ever had a dream that scared you? Listen as Phantom of the Opera Broadway star, Sandra Joseph, tells the story of the long road to achieve her dream and the lessons she learned along the way, including her amazing story of the perspective box. You can find out more about Sandra at sandrajoseph . com Download This Podcast
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Leadership = Solving Problems
Leadership = Solving Problems A few weeks ago we realized that we lost the one and only key to one of our four-wheelers at our cabin. I rolled it up the trailer and took it to the local ATV shop and asked them to put in a new ignition so that we could have a new key. They had to order in the part and so it would take a couple of days. They called three days later saying that it was done but I wasn’t heading back to our cabin for another week. When I arrived to pick it up they realized that they hadn’t put in the new ignition, the part was just sitting there. They said they could put it in quickly but when they went to put it in they realized it was the wrong ignition. If they would have put it in a week
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What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?
Sidney Howard said, “One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you have to give up to get it.” Anything great requires sacrifice. The recognition of the need for sacrifice and the willingness to act on it is a quality of the successful. I recently met a new friend that was looking to make a big change in his career. To get hime where he wanted to go, he felt he needed coaching and so he decided to sell his beloved mountain bike to invest in this coaching, a big sacrifice for him. He knew that making a hard choice now would have dividends in his future. What are you willing to sacrifice to achieve your goals? More often than not, it’s not about what we are willing to do achieve our goals, but what we are willing to give up. Most of the time, those big,
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Value Precedes Influence
A few days ago we lost a great friend & leader. Scott Schwerdt has had a great influence in my life and he will be missed. One of the great lessons Scott taught me was the value precedes influence. Scott added value wherever he went and because of that he carried great influence. This is an excerpt from my book Partnership Is The New Leadership where I highlight Scott’s example of this principle. — My friend Scott Schwerdt is president of The Americas Region for Nu Skin Enterprises, a multi-billion dollar company based in Provo, Utah. Scott has been with Nu Skin for more that 25 years and is an adored leader and employee. Before starting with Nu Skin more than two decades ago, Scott worked for the CIA. He loved what he did but it wasn’t conducive to the young family he and his wife were starting. So Scott
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