A New Definition of Success
Measure success in human terms.
If you don’t aim to touch lives, you’ll succeed at being forgettable.
You can hit your numbers and miss people. Leadership is about enriching the lives of those around you.
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Stop Solving the Wrong Problem
Solving the wrong problem is dangerous.
Helping in the wrong way wastes time and resources. Worse yet, helping in the wrong way often blows up in your face.
Help is essential to exponential success. Offer it thoughtfully.
“The people who become superstars are simply those who receive the most help.” Anonymous
Don’t Get Swallowed by the Giant Hairball
Organizations are like giant hairballs. Stacks of rules, red tape, sacred cows, and memos from 1998.
Gordon MacKenzie, the corporate misfit at Hallmark, encouraged people to orbit the hairball. Don’t get sucked into it.
Stay tethered to your organization but not tangled in bureaucracy. You’re irrelevant when you’re too far out.
Big Dreams Are Overrated
I didn’t dream big when I created Leadership Freak. I just wanted to make a difference.
Big dreams are burdens.
Small dreams often provide surprising results.
Big dreams make regular people feel small. But, if the statistics are accurate, most of us are average.
12 Ways to Dream Small And Win!
Can the Boss Have Friends at Work
If you don’t have friends at work, you feel alone for half your life. But close relationships with direct reports feel awkward.
Be friendly. But you aren’t equals. Pretending otherwise leads to confusion and resentment.
Power distorts connection.
Show me your friends and I’ll show you your future.
A Foolproof Guide to Inspiring Self-Doubt
Why develop confident employees when you can reduce them to quivering puddles of self-doubt? Follow these time-tested techniques for turning competent professionals into second-guessing, approval-seeking zombies.
When people get nervous or ask for support, accuse them of not being “leadership material.”
How to create anxious overthinkers…