Details overwhelm you when you lose sight of the big picture. Perspective enables you to reject urgent trivialities.
You’re lost in the weeds when you rush from one issue to the next. Chaos and fatigue prevail when busyness obscures the big picture.
Energize your leadership by rising above individual situations.
Thoreau wrote, “The cost of a thing is the amount … of life which is required to be exchanged for it.
When you give yourself “for” something you work for gratification.
When you give yourself “to” something you lead with purpose.
Two things leaders give themselves to….
Your boss can’t give you meaning. Neither can your organization.
Meaning comes from within.
We don’t find meaning at work. We bring meaning to work.
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