The Leadership Boost

  Your circle of influence dictates your journey,  future and your destiny.

  Leadership is always about character. Developing character and vision is the way leaders invent themselves.

 The value of an idea is finding it, using it, acting on it, implementing it. 

  When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor Frankl

Life and leadership is about alignment. You don't need to always be getting stuff done.  Sometimes it's perfectly okay, and absolutely necessary, to shut down, kick back, and do nothing.

  Problem: If you can’t communicate, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark. Warren Buffett

  A leader is one who knows their team, engages their team and considers their team.

  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.