If your mind is in prison, your hands may act out…
Be bold! Be creative! Be a visionary who dreams about floating vehicles, space exploration and colonizing other planets. “Be like Elon Musk – but know when to turn it down a notch. So maybe don’t tweet about your stock, no matter how much you feel like bragging.” I keep hearing this from people, and then others say: “What a ridiculous piece of fake news, he is a great guy who makes one little mistake and everyone is all over him.” I don’t want to take sides, but it’s interesting to see how quickly people can fall into the camps of believers and non-believers. Those who own a Tesla, or appreciate Musk’s higher purpose of trying to create a more sustainable planet, are relentless in their appreciation of this great man. Those who are suspicious of his motivations in the first place, or doubt the effectiveness of electric batteries, see their skepticism and suspicion justified in what happened to him. “See, I told you, this guy is an egomaniac and has no integrity.”
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Building dynasties from the inside out - the Saban Way
Saban recognizes that training the “entire” individual produces a cohesive organism propelled toward exceptionalism. In your organization how many ‘trainings’ are sponsored by HR as one off events, or as one - or two- day information download-type programs?
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Team building is BS – Individual and team Purpose is the key
I had one my best team buildings with the management team of my company many years ago. We went rafting - it was amazing. Beautiful nature and great company. It was also one of the most ineffective leadership teams I have ever been part of. Nothing changed when we came back.
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Native Americans can teach us how to create the best teams
It has been my tradition for the last 15 years – whenever engaged as a leader in a team dynamic focused on generative change – to call forth and intermittently employ the magical attributes of the “Talking Circle”.
My initial exposure to this ancient tradition was over 20 years ago, during a period under the tutelage of a Native American man and his wife up in the Catskill Mountains in New York.
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Forget Higher Purpose!
You can forget your Higher Purpose if you are not ready to walk the talk. Just think about it… a very touching paradigm shift has started to transpire in recent years: organizations have finally started to embrace the concept of a higher purpose.
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What will you do today to rethink and encourage creativity?
Employees feel that the leadership doesn’t support or encourage people to come up with creative ideas. So what are you going to do to eliminate the discrepancy between what you want and how your employees feel?
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