As the CEO of a growing company, I quickly discovered that a leadership role comes with its share of challenges. Sometimes a leader feels as if he or she is herding cats. To excel in leadership, you must show up daily and attend to the important aspects of leading your organization. (Continue)
Stand and Deliver with the SCORRE Conference
A few weeks ago I attended one of the best training conferences that I’ve ever experienced. The SCORRE Conference was hosted by Ken Davis (best-selling author, frequent radio and television guest, one of the country’s most sought after inspirational and motivational speakers) and Michael Hyatt (publisher, literary agent, and New York Times bestselling author of Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy (Continue)
A Summary of Process and Content
I’ve been writing about this concept of Process and Content™ for several blog posts, and today I’d like to summarize the concepts. This post should provide a good reference piece for this principle. Perhaps most importantly, I’d like to challenge you to apply what you have learned to your personal and business life. John Maxwell describes the greatest gap is the gap between knowing and doing. (Continue)
The Leadership Paradox
As a leader, do you think you have time in your schedule to ask for input and decision-making help from your employees? Most leaders sincerely believe it takes too much time and effort to adopt a more participative, process-oriented leadership style. (Continue)
Where Most People Go Wrong With Leadership – and How to Remedy It!
The other day I read a quote by an unknown author, “Prepare the child for the path, not the path for the child.” Process-oriented parents are preparing their child (the person). However, content-oriented parents are preparing the path (the thing). (Continue)
The Leadership Trap – and How to Spring Free
Many of the great pioneers who came to our country and expanded our frontiers were seeking an environment where they could have a greater sense of control over their own decisions. They were fed up with the dominating leadership of dictators and royalty. (Continue)
Do You Make These Same Leadership Mistakes?
I don’t know about you, but I’ve found that I tend to live my life focused on things that I need to do. And before I sold our moving and storage business, the things I usually focused on were Content items such as phone calls to make, parts to buy for our trucks, reports to complete, financial statements to review, etc. (Continue)
See How Easily You Can Improve Your Leadership
Anyone can improve their leadership when they understand the following truth: How something is said is often more important than what is said! This new insight is the difference between Content (what is said) and Process (how it is said). When it comes to leadership, communication matters! (Continue)
Give Me Three Minutes and I’ll Boost Your Leadership!
It’ll take about three minutes to read this blog post, and I guarantee that if you apply the principles below, you’ll take your leadership to the next level. (Continue)
Who Else Wants To Leverage Their Leadership?
Recently I heard best-seller author and speaker, John C. Maxwell, say, “You have two choices as a leader. You can lead followers or you can develop leaders. And 90% of all leaders lead followers.” (Continue)
