I admire people with high standards to which they hold themselves and oftentimes others. It has been my experience that more than a few people do not demand very much from themselves and consequently never rise to the leadership proficiency… Read More ›
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 ›
Here’s a list of ten behaviors that must be left behind if a leader is to attain and then maintain success. A beneficial exercise is to take each item on the list individually seeking to articulate your theories behind why… Read More ›
As much as news media and advertisers would have you believe differently, every situation that you encounter is not owed a response on your part. In fact responding to every situation a leader encounters leads to an unnecessary drain of… Read More ›
Rational Emotive Therapy teaches that I don’t get upset nor does someone make me upset nor upset me. The accurate way to say it is I upset myself. Once I begin using that phrase and accepting responsibility for being upset,… Read More ›
Thousands and thousands of thoughts pass through anyone’s mind in the course of a single day. Robbing those thoughts of an unthinking and yet very potent power is the goal of this poster. When for example a thought proceeds along… Read More ›
As a leader seeks to allocate his/her energy, s/he’s diligent to not give much of this finite resource to resisting the impermanence of life. In his/her effort to pursue security (and who doesn’t) s/he doesn’t seek to find it by… Read More ›
A leader learns from the past. Although at first read, that might seem obvious, as you look around you’ll find many people who don’t learn from their pasts. That may be for several different reasons. Maybe they don’t make time… Read More ›
In his excellent book Taking Responsibility by Dr. Nathaniel Brandon, he addresses the ten most common beliefs that people use to excuse themselves from taking personal responsibility for where they find themselves in life. They’re listed on this poster. As… Read More ›
As a leader, are you more of a glass half empty or a glass half full type of person? In other words, are you more of an Optimist or a Pessimist? I personally believe the best answer is “NO.” Martin… Read More ›
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