Cartoon – My Innate Sense
Tag Archives: Leadership
HOW TO INSPIRE TEAMS TO PULL TOGETHER RATHER THAN FALL APART
How to Inspire Teams to Pull Together Rather than Fall Apart
Create useful solutions:
The future belongs to problem-finders who develop solutions. It’s not enough to simply find a problem. You have to solve it.
The difference between a complainer and a leader is passion for solutions.
- Avoid small problems! You need something compelling.
- Choose a problem that ignites emotion.
- Ask, “What might make this better?” Start with ‘what.’ You’ll figure out ‘how.’
- Develop solutions that serve others, bring value, and make you feel good. Emotion is energy.
- Implement imperfect solutions quickly. “Shoot bullets before cannonballs.” Jim Collins. Perfect as you go, not before you go. Embrace the power of small imperfect beginnings.
Cartoon – Leadership Recruiting
As Healthcare Changes, So Must its CEOs, CFOs, COOs…
To keep up with big changes in how healthcare is administered, financed, and organized, top leaders are finding a need for new talents and organizational structures.
Cartoon – It’s your job to fix it either way
HOW TO COMPLAIN LIKE A LEADER
How to complain like a leader:
- Take responsibility – without exception – to make everything you complain about better. The most terrifying responsibility is acknowledging that you contributed to the environment you’re complaining about. Standing aloof is blind arrogance.
- Never complain about things you can’t change.
- The weather.
- How quickly time passes.
- The past, including the choices you made.
- Other people’s behaviors or attitudes.
- An unworthy person’s good fortune. Sure, they don’t deserve it. So what!
- Your current circumstances.
- Face-forward when complaining. What do you want?
- Seek solutions when complaining. What are you solving?
- Be tougher on yourself than you are on others. Complain three times about yourself, every time you complain once about others, if you’re inclined to be a complainer. Make this a hard and fast rule
10 WAYS TO BE A LEADER PEOPLE CHOOSE TO FOLLOW
10 leaders people choose not to follow:
- Tippy-toe leaders who live by fear.
- Hand-holding leaders who coddle rather than challenge.
- Finger-pointing leaders who never take responsibility.
- Face-saving leaders who protect their image at the expense of others.
- Butt-kissing leaders who change their behavior when top brass is around.
- Truth-shading leaders who bend the facts for personal advantage.
- Dark-cloud leaders who only see problems.
- Big-boss leaders who love telling people what to do.
- Glory-hound leaders who love praise and steal credit.
- Motor-mouth leaders who love the sound of their own voice.
10 QUESTIONS TO ASK WHEN CHOOSING LEADERS
Three mistakes when choosing leaders:
#1. Overlooking introverts. Extroversion is not a requirement to lead.
#2. Succumbing to the seduction of charisma, talent, education, or good looks.
Degrees, talent, and charisma might open doors. But, all the talent in the world doesn’t compensate for bad character.
- Entitlement.
- Laziness.
- Blaming.
- Insensitivity.
- Cowardice.
#3. Thinking doers are leaders. You sweat your way into leadership, but leadership is more than getting things done.
It’s foolish to define leadership as getting things done. The focus of leadership is people. You earn leadership opportunities by getting things done. You become a leader when you get things done through others.
- How do they make people feel?
- How do they maximize the skills and talents of others?
- How are they instilling a sense of mission?
- How are they developing others?
- How are their values, not urgencies, guiding decisions.
When someone steps into leadership they leverage the talent of others.
HENRY KOTULA 