Awesome Leaders: Maintaining Objectivity
Welcome back! There is one more aspect to the importance of trust in the work environment. It is impossible to emphasize this point enough: maintain your objectivity. Some of the biggest scandals we've heard about on the news happened in no small part because a leader trusted someone they shouldn't have. Otherwise outstanding leaders can [...]
Awesome Leaders: The Critical Importance of Building Trust
Welcome back! Foundational to your success as a leader is your willingness and ability to build trust with your people. First, you must value trust as a fickle commodity that takes diligent effort to earn and is easily shattered by carelessness or ill will. In fact, trust is the only currency that matters. If your [...]
Awesome Leaders: Total Commitment
Welcome back! Good leadership is an active choice. Awesome leadership takes total commitment. Anyone can suck at leadership, and many people do. Don't be the whiny tyrant who perches on their leadership chair and bellows about how magnificent they are. That reduces you to a caricature of yourself. A version of who you are that [...]