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Awesome Leaders: Conclusion & Call To Action
Welcome back! Leaders my leaders, what about you?! Are you willing to put in the hard work of truly leading yourself rather than being led by the shifting winds of circumstances? Do you care enough about your team to legitimately do right by them, rather than exploiting them for your personal gain? Will you become…
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Awesome Leaders: Powerful Legacy
Welcome back! You will leave a legacy whether you want to or not. You have control over whether it is positive or negative. How do you want to be remembered? Do you want to be known as someone who wasted their life and held other people back? Or do you want to be known as…
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Awesome Leaders: Leave The World Better Than You Found It
Welcome back! As a general rule, leaders make more money than a lot of other folks do. This incredible blessing is not to be taken lightly, or hoarded for strictly selfish pursuits. Leaders have the ability to provide major blessings that profoundly alter the course of someone’s future. At least once in your life, do…
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Awesome Leaders: Collaborative Advancement
Welcome back! One of the easiest ways to get involved in giving back to the community is to participate in collaborative advancement. This can be as simple as giving $5/month to a worthy organization who is doing work in your area of interest. Express who you are through the causes you support. There is an…
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Awesome Leaders: Peek-A-Boo
Welcome back! As a leader, you will have far more visibility in the community than other people. Learn how to accept this. People will always be watching you, looking up to you, and observing how you handle things. Make sure that there is congruence between your personal and professional worlds. Don’t be the manipulative jerk…
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Awesome Leaders: The Larger Community
Welcome back! Leaders hold an incredibly powerful role in society. They are highly influential in the lives of many people. They are well positioned to protect and advance the common good. Their skills allow them to make a significant contribution beyond their official leadership role, whether it is in sports, business, politics, religion or any…
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Awesome Leaders: Sentries at the Gate
Welcome back! Once you’ve established a healthy culture, guard it like a sentry at the gate. Do not allow poison in any form to ever flow through the system. If you detect it, eliminate it. You are not doing anyone any good if you are not holding people accountable in this critical area. The culture…
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Awesome Leaders: Set the Tone
Welcome back! As a leader, the culture starts with you. Leaders set the tone. It is your job to maintain standards. A team is only as strong as its weakest leader. If you are a leader of other leaders, you’ll be responsible for the impact they have on their teams and the organization. There is…
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Awesome Leaders: The Poison
Welcome back! Dysfunctional cultures have one hallmark feature: there is some kind of poison running through the system. That poison may be one person who is allowed to disrupt the work environment without consequences. The poison may be a good old boys or good old girls club that squelches other people’s opportunities for success.The poison…
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Awesome Leaders: Keeper of the Cultural Flame
Welcome back! The single biggest aspect of your organization that will make or break its success is the culture. Healthy cultures facilitate people thriving and organizational objectives being met. Dysfunctional cultures erode people’s well-being and stop goals from being accomplished. Healthy cultures breathe life into the team and the mission. Dysfunctional cultures offer only destruction…