Posts Tagged ‘self-discovery’
Wiring – Keeping It In Perspective
(This post was first published here on January 23, 2017.) The DISC behavioral assessment tool was instrumental in my earliest efforts to understand myself and intentionally grow as a leader. That was around 25 years ago, and I can still remember how helpful and powerful the learning from DISC was for me. It awakened my…
Read More“The Emperor’s New Clothes” and the Need for Feedback
It’s easy to laugh at the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes and at how ridiculously the characters behaved, but I believe that we live out this story every single day.
Read MoreBeliefs, Culture, and Grit
(This post was first published here on November 7, 2016.) I am reading a good book right now called Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. In a nutshell, this book is about the various psychological studies done over many years around what makes people successful. Of course in these studies they are…
Read MoreWiring – Keeping It In Perspective
The DISC behavioral assessment tool was instrumental in my earliest efforts to understand myself and intentionally grow as a leader. That was around 25 years ago, and I can still remember how helpful and powerful the learning from DISC was for me. It awakened my understanding of how I am, how others are, and how…
Read MoreBeliefs, Culture, and Grit
I am reading a good book right now called Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance by Angela Duckworth. In a nutshell, this book is about the various psychological studies done over many years around what makes people successful.
Read MoreI Believe I Can Fly
How malleable are our beliefs? Two weeks ago Jeff posted on emotional maturity. In that post, he mentioned psychologist Albert Ellis’s ABCs of emotions: There is an Activating event, which we filter through our Belief system to produce an emotional Consequence. Right away I knew I wanted to write a follow-up post to Jeff’s article on how to shape our…
Read MoreHow To Find Your Sweet Spot
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD365, although all are welcome to read it.) One of the things we want to do with the Leadership Matters blog is to keep you in the loop of new things we’ve added to LEAD 365 since you participated. In this spirit I want to let you know…
Read More“The Emperor’s New Clothes” and the Need for Feedback
It’s easy to laugh at the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes and at how ridiculously the characters behaved, but I believe that we live out this story every single day.
Read MoreThe DoKnowBe Tree: DO and KNOW
This section of the tree represents a leader’s behavior. There are as many behaviors expected of a great leader as there are branches on a tree.
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