Tag: Servant Leadership
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Stop A Moment And Look Around You
📖 “If I were asked for the most important advice I could give, I should simply say: stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.” – Leo TolstoyTolstoy understood the importance of awareness and reflection. Pausing a moment and reflecting on your day is a vital way to continuously improve the way you work…
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Learn, Unlearn, Relearn
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.” Alvin Toffler Continuious Improvement means continuious learning. It means undderstanding that just because something worked yesterday, doesn’t mean it will work tomorrow. It means that everything should be on the table…
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Happy National Awkward Moments Day
🥳 Happy National Awkward Moments Day! – March 18Celebrate the day by Seeing the humor in awkward moments and have fun with them. Being vulnerable –Share stories about our own awkward moments with your team. Laugh over them and enjoy the memory. Helping someone else recover from an awkward moment. They may be embarrassing…
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The insanity of groupthink
📖 “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Nietzsche’s thinking about how individuals interact when in a group closely aligns with the concept defined by Irving Janis in 1972 called “groupthink.” ✏️ Groupthink is a psychological phenomenon in which people strive for consensus within…
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Failure teaches us…
📖 “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” – John Dewey Some people view failure as a negative, and I can understand why that might be. Consider this…. 🤔 If you never fail, did you really give everything you could to something?…
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Make a difference!
📖 “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall The daily leadership calendar hits just right again! Every single day we make an…
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Candle or Fire
“Do not give them a candle to light the way, teach them how to make fire instead. That is the meaning of enlightenment.” ― Kamand Kojouri It’s a fine line- balancing between helping your partners achieve a goal, and teaching them the skills (and building the experience) necessary to achieve their goals over and…
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Set a goal – one small thing
Happy Monday. As you set your goals for the upcoming week, why not challenge yourself to try one small thing? Leaders who ask questions instead of giving instructions create an enviornment where team members feel empowered and passonate about solving problems. 💡 “What are your ideas about how to solve this?”💡”If you were me, how…