Category: Stewardship Leadership

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Purposeful Followership

Purposeful followership is a value-driven choice to support a leader, team, or mission, a conscious choice to support worthwhile goals. The concept

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Followership is as Important as Leadership

Great followers and great leaders go hand in hand. The concept that a leader has sole responsibility for the success of their

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Leadership with a Small ‘I’

Leading with a small ‘l’ is about quiet leadership: guiding, showing the way, by behavior, encouragement, and example. It’s the belief and

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Talking Out of School

Recently I was disappointed to learn that a team member in a leadership role had been sharing doubts with their team; misgivings

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‘Don’t Shoot the Messenger’ is Bad Advice

It is not enough to not shoot the bearer of bad news; you need to embrace the messenger and thank them for

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Answer Man v. Teaching Man

For much of my life I took pride in knowing the answers. You have a question? I’ve got the answer. You have

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What Would You Do if Your Only Job Description was “Create Value”?

A philosophically oriented entrepreneur once opined that a universal job description could be ‘Find and Retain Profitable Customers’. Job descriptions are important,

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Be the Lighthouse

We all lose our way at times, adrift on the stormy seas of life, when the way is dark and the path

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Right? Wrong!!!

Suppose you had a department that was humming along, doing just great. Leader gets promoted and wouldn’t you know it, the minute

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Leader-Leader: Are You Ready For It?

Traditional management follows the Leader-Follower paradigm. Hierarchal, top down, clear accountability. Leader-Leader is about shared responsibility, collaboration, innovation and is based upon

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Nec Aspera Terrent

Nec Aspera Terrent loosely translated means ‘fear not difficulty’ or more directly ‘rough things do not terrify’ and is the motto of