Spread The Love: Three Qualities That Help Distribute Leadership “I don’t know what you’ve heard, but Joe is part of the problem.” Sandy lowered her voice and leaned in so only I could hear her. “I mean he’s great; he’s really inspiring. But it seems like maybe he’s too good of a leader, I don’t [...]
How? What a powerful question. Yet when it comes to the big six (who, what, when, where, why, how), I think "how" is underrated. Sure, all the big six are important. But "how" gets to the core of ingenuity and execution. If you want better results, the question "how" should occupy your thoughts and actions. [...]
Get Scaffolding That Supports You This post is the second part of a two-part series on emotional reactivity. You can read part one, here. -- It's our responsibility to reduce the severity and frequency of our negative reactions to emotional triggers. We do this by developing a set of strategic supports (scaffolding). This scaffolding creates [...]
You don't glob all the mustard or ketchup on one part of your hot dog, do you? No, you distribute it all over. And that's exactly how leading should happen in an organization. [Tweet "Distributed leadership is a high-quality, high-ingenuity interaction between people that leads to creative-solution making. @davefleming360"] Who doesn't want more of that? Well, to [...]
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer Schopenhauer's words remind us that talent is earned. You earn it through practice, time, dedication and grit. But what about genius? Is genius earned or endowed? Is genius a quality of an "outlier" or a [...]
