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July 25, 2021
Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, July 23, 2021
On this day in leadership history in 1999, Lance Armstrong won the Tour de France. He was only the second American to win the race. He continued to win 7 consecutive races; however, his reputation was tarnished when he admitted to doping after his retirement.
What���s the leadership lesson? Honorable leaders must strive to have an untarnished reputation to influence with character and honor. Let���s encourage one another to do things the right way!
Lance Armstrong – Wikipedia
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July 23, 2021
Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, July 23, 2021
“How can we have unity when each person or group believes they are right and everyone else is wrong?” – Lee Ellis
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July 22, 2021
Leading with Honor FAQ on Best Books
A Leading with Honor FAQ –
“What books had the most impact on you and your development?”
Lee’s Answer –
“Besides my own books (Leading with Honor, Engage with Honor, and Leadership Behavior DNA), these immediately come to mind:
The Bible – I read it often growing up, and we all desperately wanted one in the POW camps. Since the war, I’ve read it from cover to cover several times and still read something in it almost every day.Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor FranklThe Advantage by Patrick LencioniThe Road Less Travelled by Scott PeckJohn Adams by David McColloughThe Six Fundamentals Of Success by Stuart R. LevineRead More FAQs at www.LeadingWithHonor.com/FAQs
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July 21, 2021
7 Work-Boosting Tips for Creating Team Boundaries
Are boundaries a good thing, or are they restrictive? And what should be our courageous stance as leaders on this topic?
I’m sensing another battle when I see our country being splintered into various groups based on race, gender, immigration, politics, and every other imaginable sliver of personal and group agenda. It’s a very dangerous trend that is threatening our nation. And it can also trickle down into our organizational teams, too.
If you want to take a stand against these dangerous attitudes and worldviews growing rapidly in our current culture, there’s an honorable way that can bring clarity, hope and unity. Check out these seven articles and consider how they might bring about greater respect for others and a culture that respects boundaries –
Tell the truth even when it’s difficult. Avoid duplicity and deceitful behavior.Treat others with dignity and respect. Take the lead, and communicate value to others.Keep your word and your commitments. Ask for relief sooner than later if necessary.Be ethical. Operate within the laws of the land, the guidelines of your profession, and the policies of your employer.Act responsibly; do your duty, and be accountable. Own your mistakes, and work to do better in the future.Live your values. Be faithful to your spiritual core, your conscience, and your deepest intuitions.Be courageous. Courage is at the core of all honorable behavior. Without it, doubts and fears will take you out.Living with boundaries is never easy, but the blessings of unity in the basics of character and commitment to a common goal are lifesaving.
Read and watch the more in-depth coaching on this topic – “7 Ways to Declare Freedom from Division”
Download a copy of the Honor Code on which list this is based.
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July 20, 2021
New Endorsement from Champlain Cable
Thank you, William Reichert, President – Champlain Cable Corporation for your kind recommendation of the Courageous Accountability Development Course –
“The course is fantastic and exactly what we needed as an executive team. The social collaboration features in the platform kept us engaged and led to many in-depth discussions that we strategically implemented during and after the course. I hope that other teams benefit from this course as much as we did.”
Want to train your team with this online tool? See below.
Team Development with the Courageous Accountability Online Course
With over 20 years training and coaching leaders, we know that the most effective development comes in community. And our mission has shifted toward leaders developing their people—the most efficient way—growing and taking others with them.
The challenge is that many leaders don’t feel qualified to conduct training, and it’s expensive. The Courageous Accountability Development Course, based on Lee Ellis’ award-winning book, is a practical, hands-on experience that uses the Courageous Accountability Model
and the Honor Code as the
basis to engage and work together.
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July 18, 2021
Leadership History Lesson for July 18th
On this day in leadership history in 1936, the first Oscar Meyer Wienermobile rolled out of General Body Company’s factory in Chicago, IL.
What’s the leadership lesson? Do you have an important message to share? Create something creative and unique to make yourself seen and heard!
Oscar Meyer Wienermobile – Wikipedia
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July 16, 2021
Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, July 16, 2021
“Go forth with courage, when you are in doubt, be still and wait; when doubt no longer exists for you, then go forward with courage…” – Chief White Eagle, Ponca Nation
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July 15, 2021
Coaching Clip – How to Lead with Unifying vs Divisive Attitudes
Whether it’s our culture at-large or your own team, unity should be a goal for all honorable leaders in word and deed. When you’re faced with multiple, potentially divisive challenges, how can you pull people together for a common goal?
Lee’s 5-minute coaching advice this month shares some from his early POW experience, career experience, and now coaching experience with other teams.
Please watch and share with others –
Team Development with the Courageous Accountability Online Course
With over 20 years training and coaching leaders, we know that the most effective development comes in community. And our mission has shifted toward leaders developing their people—the most efficient way—growing and taking others with them.
The challenge is that many leaders don’t feel qualified to conduct training, and it’s expensive. The Courageous Accountability Development Course, based on Lee Ellis’ award-winning book, is a practical, hands-on experience that uses the Courageous Accountability Model and the Honor Code as the
basis to engage and work together.
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July 13, 2021
Coaching Article – 7 Ways to Declare Freedom from Division
Are boundaries a good thing, or are they restrictive? And what should be our courageous stance as leaders on this topic? Before we answer, let’s look back in time.
July is the special month when we celebrate our nation’s independence, because it recognizes the monumental event when our Continental Congress declared independence from England. Most of us have seen those classical signatures of that famous group like Jefferson, Adams and Franklin, but we would do well to remember the sobering courage of all those representatives who signed it.
They were signing their death warrants, as that was the penalty for their action. Nine of the 56 signers died in the Revolutionary War. Five were captured and tortured as traitors. Two lost their sons in the war and two had sons captured. At least a dozen had their homes wrecked and burned. Without their bold action, we might still be a colony of England.
It was during this period that the concept of honor emerged. Previously, it had typically been associated with a position or status rather than behaviors of virtue and character. Clearly, our courageous founders deserve honor for what they did that laid the foundation for where we are today.
My Experience with Honor
Honor is both a verb and noun. As a child I was taught to honor my parents by avoiding dishonorable behaviors. In the military, honor was an important part of our training and culture. All military members are bound by the Code of Conduct—six articles that define honorable service to our country—focused primarily on loyalty and POW behavior. We had to memorize them as part of our basic training program.
During the Vietnam war as POWs were captured and moved to the Hanoi Hilton, our honor was tested daily for several years. Our enemy tried to isolate us and divide us so they could better manipulate and exploit our situation. We resisted communist exploitation and remained faithful to our country.
It was our commitment to the military Code of Conduct that defined our mission, gave us a common goal, united us, and enabled us to accomplish our mission: Resist, Survive, and Return with Honor (After a few years of resisting and surviving, it became just “Return with Honor.”)
In this month’s 5-minute Leading with Honor Coaching clip, I share more about this idea of honor and how it can be the solution to divisive behaviors –
Bringing Our Differences Together
Now, 48 years later, I’m sensing another battle when I see our country being splintered into various groups based on race, gender, immigration, politics, and every other imaginable sliver of personal and group agenda. It’s a very dangerous trend that is threatening our nation. Who really benefits when these differences are used to separate and isolate us from each other and divide our nation?
Paradoxically, at the same time these boundaries between differences are being pushed, there seems to be an ever-growing mindset of “no boundaries” that further undermines the stability, manners, and respect needed to have a healthy culture. Who would have ever believed that in places like San Francisco, shoplifting would become an accepted cultural norm as a “quality of life crime”? Here in the Atlanta metro area, on expressways where the speed limit (boundary) is 65, you are endangered if you drive that slow. Many of your fellow commuters will be passing you on both sides and weaving from lane to lane to get ahead, many of them in excess of 80 MPH—and no one is pulling them over. I guess like San Francisco, so many are doing it, it’s just too hard to enforce. And after all, it’s a great way to show our youth the benefits of “no boundaries.”
And of course, there seems to be a growing number of gangs in cities, bringing more and more violence. How can we have a civilized society governed by laws, when there are “no boundaries” – meaning no law and order and people are allowed to decide what’s right in his/her own eyes?
“How can we have unity when each person or group believes they are right and everyone else is wrong.” [Tweet This]
If you want to take a stand against these dangerous attitudes and worldviews growing rapidly in our current culture, there’s an honorable way that can bring clarity, hope and unity. If the six articles of The Military Code of Conduct could unite the POWs to suffer torture and beatings for their united cause and to serve as a team to protect each other, I believe the Seven Articles of our Honor Code could do the same in our current society. Societal change always begins with individual effort. But when people see the value of the change, they will want to join in, and it can soon become part of the norm.
The Honor Code
Here at Leading with Honor®, we believe we have a solution that can help solve many of our problems—The Honor Code. Check out these seven articles and consider how they might bring about greater respect for others and a culture that respects boundaries –
Tell the truth even when it’s difficult. Avoid duplicity and deceitful behavior.Treat others with dignity and respect. Take the lead, and communicate value to others.Keep your word and your commitments. Ask for relief sooner than later if necessary.Be ethical. Operate within the laws of the land, the guidelines of your profession, and the policies of your employer.Act responsibly; do your duty, and be accountable. Own your mistakes, and work to do better in the future.Live your values. Be faithful to your spiritual core, your conscience, and your deepest intuitions.Be courageous. Courage is at the core of all honorable behavior. Without it, doubts and fears will take you out.Thousands of people are already using the Honor Code, and we encourage you to join us and use it in your daily life and work, too. If people started to live by an honor code like this one, we would once again see the boundaries defining character and virtue. Let’s be strong and positive influencers in our communities—professional, personal, and social—with a vision for influencing an entire population. The real battle is the one we need in each individual to live by the standards of such a code of honor.
Living with boundaries is never easy, but the blessings of unity in the basics of character and commitment to a common goal are lifesaving.
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Team Development with the Courageous Accountability Online Course
With over 20 years training and coaching leaders, we know that the most effective development comes in community. And our mission has shifted toward leaders developing their people—the most efficient way—growing and taking others with them.
The challenge is that many leaders don’t feel qualified to conduct training, and it’s expensive. The Courageous Accountability Development Course, based on Lee Ellis’ award-winning book, is a practical, hands-on experience that uses the Courageous Accountability Model and the Honor Code as the
basis to engage and work together.
Just search the web for “shoplifting in San Francisco” and you’ll see how it’s done and why and how their DA explains it as a “quality of life crime.”
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Endorsement from Prudential Ag Finance and Investments
Thank you Jess Jarratt, President of PGIM Agricultural Finance and Investments, for your kind words about Lee’s recent keynote for your company –
“…Lee did a great job this week addressing our senior leadership team on the topic of “Leading With Honor in Difficult Times”. Combining stories from his POW experience in Vietnam with the leadership principals of Courage, Character and Commitment really resonated with our leaders as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic. Lee exemplifies these attributes, and it comes through in his inspiring presentations.”
Want to learn more about Lee’s speaking and keynote presentations? Visit the Speaking page.
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