Dairy cows provide two products, milk and manure. Both nurture growth.
I was nose blind to the aroma of cow manure growing up on the farm. Now it stinks.
The stuff that stinks makes things grow.
Here is some wisdom from the barnyard.
Powerful ways seasoned leaders grow.
The future isn’t waiting—it’s under construction now. Words are hammers. Habits are nails.
The world you live in today was built—in part—by the way you talked yesterday.
If tomorrow feels dark, how will you talk to remodel it?
Meetings make work harder—they drain energy.
We can’t expect high performance from people shackled with fatigue.
Our minds are distracted. Our bodies are tense. Our agenda is crammed.
Choose energy before agenda.
Here’s how to reclaim energy in 2-minutes.
Indecision parks the bus. Confidences hits the gas. Closed minds ignore the cliff.
Yesterday my wife said, “You drive weird.” In a professorial tone, I told her, “That’s judging, not observing.” She got instruction she didn’t ask for.
She was laughing too loud to hear me.
Grasping the relationship between Feedback-Correction-Instruction-Coaching-Mentoring
A one-string banjo doesn’t sound happy. Overconfidence in one strength brings leaders down.
Visionaries fail when they can’t get stuff done. Relationship builders fail when they don’t have tough conversations. Doers without empathy build disengaged teams.
Leaders fail by leaning too hard on one strength.
