Leadership

Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner are two of the world’s leading academic researchers on the science of leadership.

In our last +1, we talked about doing what you say you will do.

While we’re chatting about the science of hope, let’s focus on a key leadership stat.

Continuing our series on Stephen Covey and his awesome book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, today we’ll look at Habits #4 + #5: Think Win/Win + Seek First to Understand.

Today we wrap up our tour of the 7 Habits. One more pop quiz. Can you recall each of the prior 6?

U.S. Navy SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin were two of the most senior leaders on the ground in the most intense battles of Iraq.

In our last +1, Navy SEALs Jocko Willink and Leif Babin told us that leadership is all about EXTREME Ownership. No excuses. No blaming. Ever.

Continuing our theme of spending time with some of the best productivity thinkers on the planet, let’s cruise on over to Harvard Business School and spend some time with its head of research, Teresa Amabile.

Charisma.

David Emerald wrote a great little book called The Power of TED*. TED stands for “The Empowerment Dynamic.” David calls its opposite the “Dreaded Drama Triangle” or “DDT” for short.

In Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Nietzsche tells us: “He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves.”

Dan Pink tells us that To Sell Is Human.

The other day Phil Stutz and I were having another great coaching session.

Have you ever heard of “The Law of Psychological Reactance”?

Continuing our good times with Confucius, here’s one of the gems from his Analects that has tattooed itself on my brain since I read it a decade ago.

Wallace D. Wattles was an old-school Philosopher-Hero who wrote The Science of Getting Rich. He also wrote a little book called The Science of Being Great. (Both of those titles are, of course, finalists for best titles ever. 🤓)

The other day in one of our coaching sessions, Phil and I talked about “soul force.”

Seth Godin wrote a great book called Linchpin.

In our last +1, we talked about the fact that (as per Seneca’s wisdom), we need to let go of “the world’s opinion of you—it’s always unsettled and divided.”

In our last couple +1s, we had fun hanging out with Jerry Rice and scoring some touchdowns. Let’s continue our sports theme for a bit longer.

In our last +1, we talked about mastering Ownish and noticing when we slip into Victimese. (We also talked about going all in and mastering the dialect of Extreme Ownish—which, I’m told, is where it’s REALLY at. 🤓)

In our last +1, we talked about setting your “work-down” alarm so you don’t need to set a “wake-up” alarm. (For what time did you set YOUR alarm? :)

In our last couple +1, we talked about flipping the switch and going from our version of Clark Kent to our version of Superman.

The other day I received a nice little gift from Cal Newport. In fact, it was one of my favorite gifts ever.

Let’s wrap up our quick look at Colin Powell’s thoughts on the power of grounded optimism with one more gem.

I just finished reading Eknath Easwaran’s brilliant biography on Gandhi called Gandhi the Man.

In our last +1, we talked about being the change we want to see in the world.

In our last couple +1s, we had fun taking beams out of our own eyes (rather than worrying about the motes of dust in others’ eyes) while writing prescriptions for ourselves (rather than for our neighbors).

Phil Stutz and I recently celebrated our 3-year coaching anniversary. I think we’ve missed one of our weekly sessions since that very first one. 👯‍♂️ 🎉

I’m a big fan of John Maxwell and his extraordinary books on Leadership.

This morning I was reading John Maxwell’s new book on leadership called Leadershift.

Not too long ago, we talked about the fact that 1 + 1 doesn’t always equal 2.