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.
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…
Any fool knows what they don’t want.
The person you want to become is lost when “don’t want” dominates your thinking. Saying, “I hate being frustrated,” is disappointing compared to concentrating on things within your control.
Life is built with “Do want” actions.
Here’s how…
I received an email about a boss’s aspirations. The writer asks, “What are your thoughts on the idea of asking your manager what their ambitions are?”
It’s a wonderful question with political implications. A direct answer might be difficult.
I offered this reader some suggestions.
What suggestions to you have?
Self-deception means feeling wrong when you’re right and feeling justified when you’re wrong.
Self-deception is self-betrayal.
Do three things to rise above a pervasive limiter of leaders.
The most powerful words you say are the ones you say to yourself.
