Irritating people are everywhere because everyone is messy. Some more than others. We wish that “pain in the neck” employee would go away.
What will it take for us to have a positive attitude about messy people?
Managing Irritating People
I Know some remarkable servant leaders. This post represents their passion.
Average leaders deliver results. Servant leaders develop people who deliver results.
People don’t rise to low standards.
Stretch goals that are always reached are too low.
Confront helplessness. Promote responsibility.
Consider “The 5 Habits of Highly Effective Servant Leaders.”
Where are the leaders who inspire us?
Words born in the brain touch reason. Words conceived in the heart inspire.
Leaders tend to overuse logic. You need logic to inform. You need heart to move people.
3 ways to speak from the heart…
You can’t influence people who are protecting themselves from you.
Ethical influence requires free response. You can’t pressure someone into being influenced.
Everything you do that causes people to protect themselves corrodes influence.
This post explains 5 ways leaders corrode their influence and 5 ways leaders enable responsiveness.
Christiana Aguilera sings, “When there’s no one else, look inside yourself, like your oldest friend, just trust the voice within.” Sometimes your inner voice is wrong. Gamblers lose when their intuition says they’ll… Continue reading
Power corrupts, so does lack of power.
Weakness isn’t virture.
The paradox of power is it grows when it’s shared and shrinks when it’s hoarded.
Discomfort with power is contentment with weakness.
Power is the ability to get something done.
Embrace power responsibly.
Expand power ethically. Here’s how…
