Leadership pt. 3 What Not to Do That I Did
Do You Have This Fatal Flaw of Leadership
Man Doing Balancing on Tightrope
One fatal flaw in leaders that will sabotage their leadership influence and kill their efforts, ultimately causing their organization to implode, is being an “INSECURE LEADER”. Unfortunately, I can again speak with great authority and experience on this subject. Although I have always exuded a confident boldness, which gives the illusion of “being secure”, without training or experience I fell into all of the typical actions and responses insecure leaders exude. Worst of all, because of my insecurity, I “needed” people to prop me up with compliments, approval, and value; along with…
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Getting Over Yourself
When Ron, my husband and I, were given charge of a small non-profit organization, we had received zero leadership training. It wasn’t the CEO of our parent company’s fault. He will admit to you himself that he hadn’t received any training in leadership either.
At that time I was an ambitious, energetic, know-it-all 23 year old who was an unteachable, unbroken “High D”. Of course, I didn’t realize this until many years later, too late for those caught in the wake of our leadership inexperience.
My expectations back then reveal it all. I thought that by moving to this new city and obtaining this…
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What is Leadership, and how do you distinguish 
Leadership from Management?
In the October 2006 Issue of the U.S. News and World Report did a special report titled, Truly Authentic Leadership. In the report they stated that one of the biggest problems wasn’t the lack of leadership but the understanding of the notion of what exactly a leader is, thus resulting in the wrong people attaining critical leadership roles. They went on to explain that because of this, search committees and voters alike fell into the trap of choosing leaders for their
STYLE rather than their
SUBSTANCE.
For their IMAGE instead of their
INTEGRITY.
Sound familiar? They went on to…
Read the rest of the post here10 Ways to Know When It’s Time to Fire a Client!
No self-respecting, professional business owner would allow themselves to be abused, continually attacked, or treated like slave labor. But when do you know it’s time to let a 
challenging, inconsiderate, or downright nightmare client go? And how do you, as a leader, keep your professionalism without stooping to similar antics and child like behavior? First, you have to know it’s time; you’re past any kind of conflict resolution, this is it, no more. Here are over 10 ways you will know, they’ve got to go:
- You can’t ever do anything right, no matter how hard you try.
- Regardless of how much customer…
The Worst Sports Call of all Time Was Made by Jim Joyce as the World Watched the Reruns Over and Over Again
How would you like that to be your legacy? It was the perfect game, but the young pitcher was robbed of the rare and esteemed title of “perfect game”. Had the call been made the way it should have, Armando Galarraga would have been the 21st pitcher to have thrown a perfect game. What remains of this story is a tale of two men who handled sportsmanship honorably.
Let me ask you, have you ever made a really bad, I mean a really bad mistake? I have, and it not only cost me a considerably large job, but possibly a friendship.…
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