The Leadership Boost

  Your story has become familiar to you … but the novelty of your story is most apparent to those who are hearing your story for the first time.

  The goal is not to be successful. The goal is to be valuable. Once you’re valuable, instead of chasing success, it will be attracted to you. 

Change your story; Change your life and leadership.

A vision is not just a picture of what could be, it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. Rosabeth Moss Kanter

 Leadership is the capacity to influence others through inspiration, motivated by passion, generated by vision, produced by a conviction, ignited by a purpose.   Myles Munroe - author, speaker and leadership consultant “The greatest tragedy in life is not death, but a life without purpose.” Sometimes to make room for what leadership is, we have to look at what it is not. Leadership has n...

  The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. Anthony Robbins

There isn't a formal definition of success, but Success can be defined as clarity of the intention, reaching that intention, while being authentic, doing it with gratitude and contentment.

  Every leader struggles with gaining and maintaining alignment. Alignment with their basic elements of leadership. Every leader faces restraining forces, opposition, and challenges. These cause us to sometimes to behave and act contrary to our mission, vision and values, our resolutions and our intentions.  They then become habits.

  Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden. Changing and growing is what makes you win.

 Very few leaders can possibly be content with the status quo if they are regularly getting a leadership tune-up and assessment. 

  Don’t fool yourself; having a strategy map is not the same as having a strategy. Joroen De Flander

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, ..." Colin Powell

  Howard Schultz said: I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful.

  Effectiveness is no longer optional. The call and need for a new era is for greatness. Stephen Covey

  It’s a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together.

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

  Where there’s smoke there’s a fire!

Don't strive for perfection, strive for continuous development instead.

  Maturity  is the acceptance of responsibilities, carrying them out within the bounds of ethical and considerate behavior, while having an abundance mindset, with a willingness to manifest an understanding attitude toward others.

  We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are. John Maxwell The more intentional you are about your leadership growth, the greater your potential for becoming the leader you’re capable of being.

  Team alignment changes the way team members view their actions; they embrace team decisions and organizational actions as if they were their own.

  Leadership is about vision and responsibility, not power. Seth Berkley Jonathan Swift said: Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. Leadership is the capacity to be motivated by passion, generated by vision. Robin Sharma says: Leadership is not about position - but passion. It’s no longer about image but impact. This is leadership 2.0. Have a passion for making a difference...

True leaders have the confidence to stand alone, and the courage to make decisions. Make strategic decisions, realizing that those decisions impact people's lives.  Making decisions is easy when based on values. You have to know your values and build your leadership around them.

  Destiny shapes our choices and decisions, and our choices and decisions moves us to  our destiny! What destiny are you working toward? What will you destination be?

  Who you are, beyond what you can do to or for people, ultimately determines the depth of legitimate authority that you have.