“The best in art and life comes from a center, something urgent and powerful, an ideal or emotion that insists on being. From that insistence a shape emerges and creates its structure out of passion. If you begin with a structure, you have to make up the passion, and that’s very hard to do.” – […]
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In my last article, I discussed the power of leadership communities. Leadership communities move from being a short sighted team that is driven by tasks to becoming an enduring community of shared significance that has lasting impact. Leadership communities work as a network rather than as a hierarchical organizational chart. Collaboration is part of the
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“If we deny people’s great need for relationships, for systems of support, for work that connects to a larger purpose, they push back.” – Margaret J. Wheatley What does a leadership team look like to you? The dictionary definition defines team as “a number of persons associated in some joint action.” A team is a
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Choices, Choices, Choices! – Our lives are filled with choices. Just walk into a grocery store and you can be overwhelmed by choices with decision making. I had a friend who lived in a third world country providing relief work. When she returned to the US, she was caught off guard by the culture shock
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“Have you been busy?” I find that I frequently get asked this question as a conversation starter. It is similar to people asking, “How are you?” People expect me to reply yes and bemoan how busy life is. We wear busyness like a badge of honor and proof of significance, and then often complain about
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“Based on my experience working with teams during the past 10 years or so, I’ve come to one inescapable conclusion: no quality or characteristic is more important than trust. In fact, my work with teams resolves around trust more than any other topic.” – Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Trust
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin Change is the one constant that we all face. You can’t avoid it. But you do have a choice. Will you use change for growth or for deterioration? In my last
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Do you have a vision to make something better, but for it to become a reality, you need to be leading change with others? We face social change in the workplace all the time. Do you have a new process that you need to implement at work that requires your team to be on board
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Are you going through a transition right now? This time of year can be the beginning of changes with children returning to school and organizations preparing for their fall season. I recently learned about the stages that a caterpillar goes through in order to transform into a butterfly. The process reminded me of the stages
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“I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other as I have loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.” – Jesus (John 13:34-35 –NCV) The greatest testament to being a leader is if people follow your leadership model. Jesus’ model was
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