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Can you and do you inspire others?
This is an important question for all of us to ask as leaders. Our answer helps us see past our positional “power” and look at our true effectiveness. Alaina Love, wrote a a blog post for Business Week that outlines ten attributes that help you inspire others.
Here is her [...]
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In a couple of hours I am giving a talk entitled The Remarkable Leader’s Role in Motivation.
Let me give you the crib notes here.
We can’t motivate anyone. Motivation is internal and a choice.
So as leaders our role is to recognize that we can’t motivate (at least not for very long).
What we can do is inspire [...]
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Last Friday in this space I urged you to take responsibility for being inspired by looking to things that inspire you as a source.
Today I urge you to take that one step further.
Make it one of your ongoing leadership activities to collect things that inspire you.
Have one song that inspires you? Find 5-10 more over [...]
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Some weeks in my mostly-regular Friday Inspiration post I give you something speciifc to think about, or links to something inspirational.
Today is different.
Today I urge you to look inside yourself.
Think about something that inspires you.
A song. A quotation. An Accomplishment. A poem. A picture. A place. A person.
Once you have thought of something. Be refreshed [...]
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This time of year thousands of speeches are given at high school and college commencement exercises. I am especially aware of this since tomorrow, I will be giving one at A.T. Still University. Because of the occasion at least one of the components of all of these speeches will be to inspire the assembled graduates [...]
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All human beings need inspiration to perform at our best. And as I’ve starting encouraging you on Fridays, as leaders this is even more important to us.
Let’s start with reading.
You may be reading to education, edification or entertainment. All of those are valid reasons to read. But what about consciously, intentionally reading to be inspired?
For [...]
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Your Friday leadership inspiration comes from Susan Boyle.
You may not know her name, but you’ve heard the story (and well over 60 million views of various versions of the video prove it that you likely have) of the nondescript, 47 year old woman who sang recently on the television show “Britain’s Got Talent”
If you haven’t seen it, [...]
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I’ve long loved reading inspirational materials. I find them not only edifying, but tremendously valuable personally and professionally. I truly believe part of our role as a leader is to inspire others through our words and actions.
I recently wrote a post called Creating Leadership Inspiration that shares my perspective. Part of that post encourages you [...]
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As leaders, we are, by definition, influencing others. In my recent post, The Power in our Words, I talked about our word choices and how they will influence those around us.
To become Remarkable Leaders we want to influence with impact – we want our influence to be a positive and productive force in the work, [...]
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This video tells the story, but here in our offices (aka The Remarkable House) we need your help to decorate one of the walls in our conference room. Watch the quick video then give me your ideas in a comment here.
I look forward to your creativity and inspiration!
I will keep you informed of our progress [...]
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