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 ›
Vitality
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: A Thought
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 ›
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: 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: Why Do They Like You?
In what I consider to be the most significant posting in this series, I spoke to the importance of dividing your Identity from your Roles. Please click HERE to revisit that posting. In order to accomplish that task, it is… 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 ›
Graphic Leadership: Ten Lies I Tell Myself
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 ›
Governance: Learned Optimism
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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