Breaking away from the norm, embracing new disruptive leadership styles
This is a hard task for some, “breaking away”. People become so ingrained in a process, educational niche, or field/office experience, but lack essential elements critical to long-term success. I’m not referring to hard skills like a solid business plan, accounting, marketing, etc. Rather, it is the essential (soft skills) personal elements that are lacking. Elements that could help boost them to the next level of training and knowledge. But many are afraid to put themselves out there. There is a fallacy in the realm of education that many don’t recognize until they end up in the wrong career(s). You spend all that time and money to become invested in…
Legacy – understanding the wisdom
Legacy – understanding the wisdom. Your thoughts? Legacy means different things to different people. What do you envision your own personal legacy will look like? From a business perspective, you don’t have to be rich, just firmly committed to something larger than yourself. Those who have the tenacity to follow through on goals and plans, year after year, command a different determination and unstoppable, courageous attitude. Purpose-driven, legacy builders. Legacy builders are always searching for and discovering new concepts and ideas, and putting them into action. Generally, that action requires followers, employees, family, and friends. It’s not the size or the scope of your business that matters; it’s more about…
A Gentleman’s Agreement – What ever happened to the term
A Gentleman's Agreement - What ever happened to the term
Is change a distraction to cover up disruption
Is change a distraction to cover up disruption? You can have all the systems in place that you want, but if you don’t know who to call when trouble happens, what good will your systems be? Fifteen years later and businesses still call on their past employees for help. There are some skills that cannot be easily shared, or packaged in a system. Licenses and professional trades that only a few aspire to ever learn. Hands-on crafts and design work are true pieces of wonder. You can’t systemize dreams, and you can’t bottle creativity. What makes people think they can systemize another man’s or woman’s thoughts? Processes can be systemized,…
Out-of-Office
Out-of-Office I was trying to write an out-of-office (OOO) message the other day, and I wasn’t feeling any love flowing from the process. Rummaging through a number of my co-worker’s past OOO messages, it was apparent none of them were feeling the love when they wrote theirs either. I decided to search out some smarty pants OOOs on the net. But… most of the ones I found of value, would probably have gotten me into serious trouble if I used them. Dang it! I didn’t want to leave the standard “‘ ….. — ……” I also knew I couldn’t post any pictures of my fluffy little pink body lying on…
