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A Leader’s Guide: Be Ready for Wisdom to Find You
Leadership stories often emerge from unexpected places. Over the past few weeks, as part of my research, I’ve been seeking stories from coaching clients to illuminate the journey from knowledge to wisdom. I didn’t know when or where I’d find one, but a conversation with a friend unfolded into something much more profound. What began…
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A Leader’s Guide: Transforming Knowledge into Wisdom
In leadership, knowledge is often praised as power. But, while valuable, knowledge remains a passive asset—useful in potential but inactive. The path from knowledge to wisdom, where true impact lies, is a leader’s most transformative journey. This guide shows how knowledge, through reflection and action, becomes wisdom. It is this wisdom that sets great leaders…
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The Leader’s Guide: The Power of Leadership Assessments: Unlocking Growth and Impact
Leadership assessments are transformative tools that provide leaders with clear, actionable insights to enhance their skills, strengthen relationships, and expand their impact. When embraced as a growth tool, feedback becomes more than a reflection—it becomes a strategic guide. Feedback is leadership gold at its best, offering leaders a roadmap to refine their influence and make…
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A Leader’s Guide: Activate Your Leadership Strengths with Avatars
When coaching leaders aiming to make a real impact, I often suggest they try a simple yet transformative approach: embodying an “avatar” to practice new leadership qualities. This technique allows leaders to explore new facets of themselves, tapping into strengths and traits they may have avoided or not yet developed. It’s about becoming a fuller…
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A Leader’s Guide: Leadership is for Heroes and Heroines
In the realm of leadership development, there’s a powerful story map that has resonated across cultures for centuries—the hero’s journey. This path of courage, transformation, and achievement appears in everything from ancient myths to today’s best-loved stories. Rooted in Greek epics, Sun Tzu’s teachings, and modern figures like Harry Potter and Wonder Woman, the hero’s…
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A Leader’s Guide: The Impact Field Playbook for Leaders: Become Indispensable
Leaders who want a lasting impact must include their career and personal experiences in the development path. Leadership requires a strong, evolving development practice of engagement as we aim for more impactful attitudes and results. Yet, it also demands refining a leader’s core human qualities, their indispensable leadership elements. The Impact Field Playbook for Leaders:…
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A Leader’s Guide: Practicing Leadership Through Achievement – Making It Real
Achievement is not just about meeting goals; it’s about leading in a way that turns vision into reality through meaningful action, strategic thinking, and applied innovation. It’s about transforming ambition into tangible outcomes that inspire teams, elevate organizations, and create lasting impact. In its highest form, achievement becomes a cultural norm when visionary leadership aligns…
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A Leader’s Guide: Practicing Leadership through Innovation – Make It Possible
Innovation drives progress. It thrives in environments that reward courage and risk-taking. Leaders who value innovation create cultures that empower people to challenge assumptions, explore new ideas, and improve. I have worked with teams specializing in technical innovation across several industries. It’s a privilege. This includes coaching many middle-management technical leaders at Apple. People have…
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A Leader’s Guide: Practicing Leadership through Inspiration – Make It Believed
Inspiration is more than creating excitement or a sense of belonging. It’s a force that shapes an organization’s culture, energy, and creativity. At its core, inspiration is a path to a shared vision. It requires vulnerability, conviction, encouragement, and respect. Inspiration-oriented leaders don’t need to tell people what to do. They instill motivational belief in…
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A Leader’s Guide: Practicing Leadership through Wisdom – Make It Known
In leadership, practicing the art of wisdom is more than sharing one’s know-how. A wisdom-oriented leader connects business success to a culture of learning, creativity, and expertise. They focus on evolving themselves and others. They want to multiply others’ impact over solving their problems. Wisdom illuminates sustainable leadership. Upleveling Wisdom Cultivating a leadership practice of…
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A Leader’s Guide: Lead Reorganization with Grounded Strength
Reorganizations. They create a demanding and disruptive environment that tests leadership capability and stamina. The rapid pace of change can also overwhelm teams. Roles, responsibilities, and the company’s future become unclear. The unintended consequence? Doubt seeps in, lowering morale and productivity. It’s an experience we’d all rather forget. Yet, it is a chance to show…
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A Leader’s Guide: Influencing Through Practical Marketing Principles
Leadership is about influencing and driving change, which is not always easy. It can be disheartening and frustrating when pushback or indifference meets engagement efforts. When there is conflict, it’s a struggle to communicate in a manner that aligns teams and organizations. A well-intentioned, goal-oriented leader may screen out seeming relationship distractions while navigating challenges.…
Welcome to The Wisdom Post – A Leader’s Guide
Welcome to The Wisdom Post. We explore insights from my coaching work with leaders and teams to navigate the complexities of leadership. Each post aims to empower you and offers strategies to overcome challenges that test your leadership.
Every post ends with a Master Wisdom Key, a distilled piece of advice to help you lead with clarity and purpose.
