Many leaders I work with have a capability for intensity beyond that of the average person. That strength only remains a strength if it is managed in all three areas of communication. The above poster illustrates a continuum of intensity… Read More ›
Passion
Graphic Leadership: Tunnel Vision
Although there are many places where the term “tunnel vision” might be applied to leadership, in this post the application specifically addresses the driven leader who thrives on daily accomplishment after accomplishment while overlooking his/her own personal/internal growth and development…. Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Obscurity vs. Significance
When the word “leader” is spoken, there are certain names that immediately come to mind including Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Or from the past there are the leaders of Abraham Lincoln, Harriet Tubman, Winston Churchill and others. Nevertheless during… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Evaluating Your Day
As a leader ends his/her day, it’s normal to ask a question of evaluation in terms of how successful the day might or might not have been. However, how that question is phrased in the mind of the leader has… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: More Than My Share
Maintaining a spirit of gratefulness can be challenging for most leaders. Yet the leader will be hard-pressed to find a more significant internal energy source for meeting the demands of his/her responsibilities. In generating a spirit of gratefulness, there is… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Experiencing Life
Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that life is to be experienced not necessarily reacted to. Leaders understand that being reactionary is incongruent with being a leader. A leader acts not reacts. Nevertheless, the discipline necessary to break the habit of knee… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Your Lake Of Resources
In this poster you’ll see a boat that has beached itself – driving full-speed ahead out of the lake and up on the sand. Notice the name of the lake. The lake represents the leaders finite spiritual, emotional, financial, physical,… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: The Leader’s Formal Education
While a leader understands the value of a formal education, s/he neither undervalues nor overvalues its contributions to their status as a leader. I have watched people with very strong (albeit raw) leadership skills who were so filled with self-doubt… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Defining Success
Although this poster specifically addresses an issue in the sales world, the principles on which it’s built is pertinent anytime someone seeks to create a definition of success around any project. On the left are definitions of success in which… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: The Leader’s Values
In the entry entitled Inner Drive, we spoke of four internal sources of energy in the life of a leader. The leader’s Values was one of those drivers. Now this poster provides for us a tool for helping to define… Read More ›