In Over Your Head
Leadership’s pivotal moment arrives the moment you admit you’re in over your head. Until then, you’re predictable and mundane. The weight of leadership hasn’t buckled your knees. Competence holds you up. Bain of… Continue reading
Category Archive: Fear
42 Comments
How to Fulfill Leadership’s First Responsibility
Fear hopes monsters go away. Courage grabs them by the throat. “The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality.” Max De Pree The movie, Apollo 13, made the phrase, “Houston, we… Continue reading
How to Develop Unstoppable Tenacity
Leaders slip into insignificance for lack of tenacity. Everything meaningful requires tenacity. The more meaningful the objective the more tenacity required. Willpower isn’t essential to tenacity, but, terror, hope, and joy are. Terror… Continue reading
How to be Quick Under Pressure
*** Agility without direction destroys. You swerve left. They dash left, then right, then left again, until one day it’s too late. The closer your car gets to squirrels in the road the… Continue reading
How Need to Succeed Holds Back
The up side of the need to succeed is hard work and passion. The down side of the need to succeed is it blocks lasting achievment. Needy leaders choose short-term success over medium… Continue reading
Seven Ways to Push Through Embarrassment
Image source You haven’t led if you haven’t felt embarrassed. Sadly, egocentric fear of embarrassment blocks exceptional. Embarrassment freezes you in your tracks like a deer in the headlights, afraid to move. Embarrassment… Continue reading