Polite but not Nice
Leadership Lessons ezine by Mark Sanborn
Innovate to Survive – An Interview with Robert B. Tucker
Leadership Lessons ezine by Mark Sanborn
Think Like a Leader and Lead Like a Thinker – November 2006
The point of thinking—about life and leadership—isn’t just to know new things. It is, to paraphrase philosopher Jim Rohn, to behave in new ways. Reading a book won’t help you lead any better than buying a treadmill will make you fit. If you don’t use it, you lose the benefit. (50% of adults don’t read…
Rewarding Relationships: Observations and Applications
Power with People Power with people is one of the six leadership principles I explain in my latest book You Don’t Need a Title to be a Leader: How Anyone, Anywhere Can Make a Positive Difference. We live and lead in such a transactional world that we need to remember the importance and primacy of…
Avoiding a Fall from Leadership
News of a fallen leader elicits shock from followers. The higher the profile of the person whose reputation is tarnished, the bigger the shock. But for any leader, the news of another leader’s fall should elicit something more than and different from simply shock. While smugness is sometimes the emotional response, it is not what…
12 Keys to Increasing Personal Productivity And Add More Balance To Your Life
Benjamin Disraeli said, “He who gains time gains everything.” Though time is precious, the average American spends 53 minutes a day on grooming, 4 hours and 26 minutes watching TV, and 30 minutes standing in line. When USA Today asked readers to rate their past year, forty-seven percent said their lives have become busier and 41%…
The High Point of Leadership
There are some interesting and amazing things going on in High Point, North Carolina. Last summer I visited High Point University and learned first hand about how my long-time friend Dr. Nido Qubein was leading an amazing journey to reinvent HPU. At that time I met Roger Clodfelter. Roger has a very unique title and set of responsibilities at…
Inspirational Quotes
Think On These Things “Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.” Thomas Jefferson “And this is the simple truth: That to live is to feel oneself lost. He who accepts it has already begun to find himself to be on firm ground.” Soren Kierkegaard “Few have the imagination to…
The Power of A Committed Individual
(‘Y2J’ a lesson in love for teachers and students from the Denver Post, 1/2/00) Since 1962 Dick Jordan has been inviting students to meet him on the first day of the millennium at the west entrance of the Denver Public Library Downtown. 300 students showed up, many lugging yearbooks or dusty photos of the man…
And God Said No
I asked God to take away my pride, And God said, “No.” He said it is not for Him to take away, but for me to give up. I asked God to make my handicapped child whole, And God said, “No.” He said her spirit is whole, Her body is only temporary. I asked God…