Don’t Be a Hater-Leader

You aren’t literally a hater-leader. (I hope.) But you may do things that feel like hate.

Leaders who focus on fixing people feel like haters to their victims.

Rejection feels like hate.

Development helps people grow. Fixing treats them like defects.

How to Develop Mature Team Members

You can’t force maturity. You can make maturity more likely.

Mature people require less supervision.

Mature people respond skillfully to reality.

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Stop Developing Your Leadership

“Developing your leadership” sound grand. It’s useless.

You can’t practice “leadership.” You can practice specific leadership skills.

You can’t practice a generality.

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The Leader Nobody Talks About: The One Who Cannot Stop 

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6 Ways to Make Adversity Useful

Adversity doesn’t create opportunity. Leaders do.

Trouble can produce bitterness, blame, and paralysis. It takes leadership to transform difficulty into progress.

Don’t let difficulty be the whole story.

Adversity presents the moment. Leadership give it meaning.

How Leaders Drive People Nuts

Imagine a person who drives you nuts. Realize you drive others crazy, too.

Leadership magnifies your behavior. Even small irritations drive people nuts when you’re the boss.