If the term “Ego Investment” is new to you, I’m confident the concept is not. The level of your own “ego investment” depends on how much time, energy, and financial resources you’ve sunk into a person or project. The rule… Read More ›
Time Competency
Graphic Leadership: No One Will Pay You
There are phases/chapters of a leader’s life that can distract him/her from the truly important things in life. In the intense daily focus on paying the mortgage, putting food on the table, and clothes on the backs of our family,… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Tyranny Of The Urgent
The Tyranny Of The Urgent is a small booklet I read in college. Then in reading Stephen Covey’s The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People, I’m reminded of this theme again. Spending time visiting with my spouse is seldom urgent but always… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Responses
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 ›
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: Your Job To Life Ratio
This poster helps the leader make a crucial assessment in a graphic manner. The oval represents the entirety of your life. Take a moment to draw a rectangle inside the oval to depict through its size how much of your… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Impermanence
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 ›
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: Who You Become
A leader understands that it is not who you know or what you possess or even what you have done that will determine your ultimate happiness. Rather it is who you become that has the power to make you happy… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Your Time Account
Time is money is so cliche. Nevertheless, money is a quite accurate metaphor for time. Both are valuable. Both are in limited supply. However, with time as opposed to money, you can never check your balance. A wise leader understands… Read More ›