Archive for August 30, 2019

Are you talking to yourself right now? Listen…whose voice is it? Your voice, your boss, coworkers, dad, the devil? Yes, we all have many voices, but the reality is that you can only listen to one at a time. But…you get to choose. So listening to the “right voice” is essential.

We all have internal speech that “beats up” on us from
time-to-time. For some of us, the “saboteur” can be brutal. Have you heard this
rattling around in your head, “He’s never going to listen to me right now, I
can’t lose that

In the bestseller, Leadership and Self-Deception the story is told of an upper level manager, “Tom”, who has an inability to see his own problem – self-deception. Self-deception caused a number of significant problems both for Tom and those he worked and lived with. Let’s take a look at this scenario:

Tom always saw others as the source of his problems.Tom had an overblown sense of his importance, always saw himself as the most committed, the most dedicated, and the smartest guy in the room.Tom actually, unknowingly, provoked others to resist

Last week I attended the Global Leadership Summit. 7,500 leaders from around the world learned from 14 outstanding speakers representing the best of corporate, nonprofit and religious circles. While the environment was positive and electric, many of the lessons taught came in the form of warnings for leaders who aren’t willing to do the hard work and have the difficult conversations that are essential in these challenging times. Those who avoid or abdicate the hard decisions are destined to fail. Here are the one dozen “warnings”:

The CEO or executive