Simple Insights…Wisdom recognizes patterns.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Ideas worth planting
Accountability
Small thoughts. Strong roots. Truths worth carrying.
Wisdom is learning to ask what our leadership is doing to people while there are still people around us willing to answer.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The people we lead do not belong to us. They have been entrusted to us.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Leadership produces fruit. We should look at all of it.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Before people understand the problem, they often feel the problem.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Silence is not necessarily agreement. Sometimes silence is simply what people do when they have learned that speaking is expensive.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Feelings are not infallible, and perception is not the same thing as truth. But neither should that perception automatically be dismissed.
~ Leadership Masterworks
One of the great dangers of toxic leadership is that everybody else can feel something is wrong long before the leader realizes anything is wrong at all.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The more authority we possess, the greater the danger that people will become reluctant to tell us the truth.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Do not measure leadership only by what was accomplished. Ask what it cost to accomplish it.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The better leadership question is not merely, “Do I have the authority to do this?” but, “What is my use of authority doing to the people entrusted to me?”
~ Leadership Masterworks
One bad interaction does not make a toxic leader. The important question is what happens when the unusual becomes usual.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Eventually we must ask: What happened to the people entrusted to us while we were leading them?
~ Leadership Masterworks
A healthy leader can react badly at first. Watch what happens afterward.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Personality can explain behavior. It does not excuse character.
~ Leadership Masterworks
A leader can think he has gained control when he has actually lost visibility.
~ Leadership Masterworks
The more successful a leader becomes at discouraging disagreement, the less trustworthy the information reaching that leader becomes.
~ Leadership Masterworks
An organization can develop an unofficial operating system around a leader’s weaknesses.
~ Leadership Masterworks
If telling the truth produces anger, people become careful with the truth.
~ Leadership Masterworks
When we cannot clearly identify what is wrong, we tend to question our own perception of it.
~ Leadership Masterworks