Are you passionate? Or just intense? When you get going on a pet topic, do people flock to you? Do they leave your discussions Energized? Excited? Eager to go do something? That’s passion. You know you’re being passionate if you find people attracted to you personally and interested in your cause. On the other hand, [...]
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Leadership
Are great leaders born? Are they made? How’s this: great leaders are unlocked. Some are great right from the start because their talents are already unlocked at birth. For others, those skills are unlocked during learnings or experiences picked up through life. What experiences unlock that leadership potential? Who knows. Despite an entire human capital [...]
Your emotional maturity dictates your ability to adjust to adverse conditions, deal with difficult people, and move past obstacles. It may even impact how you read this. That’s because emotion colors everything we do; it’s like the current on a river, carrying us whether we’re aware of it or not. If we don’t adjust for [...]
Leadership takes a deep level of personal investment. You simply aren’t going to cut it as a leader if you don’t bring everything you’ve got to the cause. There are so many things vying for peoples’ attention, only your full, concentrated passions will cut through the clutter and draw others to you. The thing is, [...]
My kids, mesmerized by the idea of worldwide scavenger hunt known as The Amazing Race, wanted to watch the race’s finale last night on CBS. So we did. The team that won did a great job. But so did the other teams. In fact, victory last night wasn’t determined by skill as much by logistics: [...]
I had a meeting last week with the COO of a $8 billion+ company who squeezed in a meeting with my partner and I in the midst of 26 in-person customer calls, internal development work, and a 6-month tour of duty with bankers. He’s a competent individual—any assessment tool would pick up on a number [...]
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