The most important thing you can do as a leader is to keep your heart open.
…Maintaining an open heart—pumping possibility through your organization—is the most important thing you can do as a leader.
Archive for Leadership
Four Leadership Lessons from the Super Bowl
As I was reflecting on the game Monday morning, I thought that the Giants, particularly Eli Manning, demonstrated four characteristics of all great leaders:
…It would have been easy for the Giants to listen to the drift of the media and assume they couldn’t win.
The Lost Art of Listening
One of the greatest gifts any of us can ever receive is the gift of listening. It is also one of the greatest gifts we can ever give. Unfortunately, it appears to be a lost art.
Shift the Drift
Every stream has a current. Throw a twig or a piece of paper into the water, and it will drift with the current. This is natural. It is simply the way things work. Organizations are similar to streams. They too have a flow.
Taking a Stand
The Difference Between Trying and Committing
There are probably as many different philosophies of creating an annual budget as there are companies. When I came to Thomas Nelson initially, the philosophy was the push-up, pull-down philosophy. Management would try to get the individual units to push up their revenues budget as high as they could and push down their expenses as low as they could go.
Four Characteristics of Inspirational Leaders
Inspirational leaders set the pace. Inspirational leaders believe in the future.