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“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.” John Quincy Adams
Who’s the Leader?
JUST because you have a leadership title, doesn’t mean you have leadership skills. Being called a leader does not make you one. Conversely, not having a title, having no followers, does not mean you don’t need leadership skills. Most of the attributes that make up the Method Leadership framework are valuable to individuals in and…
The 5-Step Rule
HERE’S a very simple rule for getting things done (which is another way of saying, “gaining values”). I call it the 5-Step rule. Simple name, big effect. Step #1 Focus – activate your mind and look at reality. Don’t worry about what others tell you; what do you see?; Step #2 Think – ask yourself…
Measuring Success
HOW do you measure success? An old and maybe cliched question, but one that’s easy to answer. Success. Is. Measured. In. Happiness. Happy is what you are when you achieve something; reach a goal; attain a value. Could be a material value like the new car you’ve been saving for, or a spiritual value like…
Poke The Box – Seth Godin
I’M no stranger to the inevitable doubts that pop up when you start a new venture. I’m also no stranger to procrastination; I’m not the world’s worst, but I’ve spent enough time doing things that didn’t matter to avoid doing things that did, to know that there’s a certain spark that you need to find…
John Allison at Cato
FORMER CEO at BB&T Bank, John Allison, is now heading up the Cato Institute. BB&T, lead by Allison, was one of very few banks that didn’t succumb to the government-induced incentive to originate mortgages to people who couldn’t really afford them (sub-prime), and hence came through the GFC relatively unscathed. The BB&T Philosophy, thanks to…
The Iron Lady on Consensus
MAGGIE THATCHER: “Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead. What great cause would have…