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Fall Leadership Development Ideas

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Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, September 25, 2020

“To grow as a leader, work on the balance of using your strengths while being aware of your struggles and learn how to adapt your behaviors in the moment to operate more effectively.” – Lee Ellis

 

 

 

 

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The Latest Recommendation from Lee’s Bookshelf – “Essays on Ethics”

The Latest Recommendation from Lee’s Bookshelf – “Essays on Ethics” by Rabbi Jonathan Sack. Believing the Hebrew Bible to be the ultimate blueprint for Western morality, Rabbi Sacks embarks upon an ethical exploration of the weekly Torah portion, uncovering its message of truth and justice, dignity and compassion, forgiveness and loves.

The insights into life and leadership in this volume are astounding.

Read More about it on the Good Reads website.

And if you’ve read this book, please post your review and comments below –

 

 

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3 Quick Tips on Balancing Leadership Paradox

3 Quick Tips on Balancing the Paradox of Being “All Things” in Leadership – consider the challenge when you encounter paradox and have to acknowledge and operate on two seemingly opposite principles from the list below –   

This       and        This

Visionary             Practical
Chaos                   Order
Results                Relationships
Competitive        Supportive
Detached            Sensitive
Bold                      Cautious
Quick                    Patient
Strong                  Vulnerable
Leader                  Servant
Tough                   Compassionate
Generalist            Specialist
Convincing          Good listener

Be willing to live in the tension—holding two seemingly opposite concepts at once. Our tendency is to want simplicity. We like to reduce things to right or wrong, good or bad, strong or weak. The reality of life says it’s just not that way. We are at once good and bad, strong and weak. In fact, even the best leaders readily admit that they have major insecurities.

How can you learn to live in the tension and embrace paradox? Three tips –

Try a Picture-in-Picture Approach.

My friend, Laurie Beth Jones, has a good analogy called the “picture-in-picture” approach. We must learn to keep more than one channel on the screen and be able switch between them. For example, a leader needs to be able to expand the “vision” onto the full screen in order to develop strategy while at the same time keeping the practical details of reality in the smaller background screen, knowing she’ll need to swap pictures again to deal with the here and now.

Develop flexibility in yourself and others.

Push yourself to identify old mindsets that really aren’t working. When notice that your actions don’t seem to bring good results, consider taking a new perspective. As you get older, flexibility gets harder but it’s worth the effort. Share your growth and mentor others to do the same.

Remember the Stockdale Paradox.

Leaders need resilience in tough times. Our POW leader, CDR James Bond Stockdale, the senior Naval officer in the camps knew a lot about resilience—spending more than four years in solitary confinement, two years in the infamous Alcatraz camp with many rounds of torture. The phrase says, “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end — which you can never afford to lose — with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.”

Also, read the entire article on this topic – “Breaking the Behavioral Paradox in Leadership: 3 Tactics”

 

Get a Clear Perspective of Your Leadership Style

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Grounded in statistical research and supported by data from millions of clients and more than 45 years of workplace experience, Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie reveal their personal stories and experience on how they’ve successfully helped organizations achieve their goals by applying practical insights on human design.

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“…There are few that have made significant strides on making ‘knowing yourself’ operational and real as Lee and Hugh have in this marvelous book. Reading this book is a compelling adventure. If you follow the path, you will change for the better!” – Richard Boyatzis, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People Change

“This is the book that I have longed for during my decades in managing talent. Having seen the positive impact of DNA Behavior on my teams, this is a must-read for leaders who desire to build strong teams by accelerating natural talents in an authentic and lasting way.” – Belva White, CPA, MBA, Vice President for Finance & Treasury, Emory University

 

 

 

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Guest Article – Setting Your Quality Life Purpose

By Hugh Massie

– First Published on Nasdaq –

More and more these days I’m asked my thoughts on the meaning and quality of life. This global pandemic, including being on social lock down, has caused individuals to have deeper discussions.

Many of us agree that we were having these “life” discussions when we were in college, newly married or considering our career choices. Now as adults facing so much uncertainty in the world, we are returning to these life-shaping talks to review or audit our lives, evaluating where we go next.

Golf and Revelations

I recently received an invitation to attend a golf lesson event via video conference being hosted by a financial planner. This was too random not to attend. But before the event I spoke to the host who told me that he was looking for innovative ways to stay connected, not just with friends but also with clients. So he hired a golf pro to demonstrate not only golf swings but also to give tips on how to “read” a golf course.

His intention was to bring together key people in his life who he knew were having similar life discussions, but not just to talk, but to do and enjoy something together. In this case golf.

He went on to tell me that, over the past three months, he had come to the realization that he was spending far too much time working, building wealth and growing his businesses, and too little time with his family.

Appreciating how many of his early life values were being compromised troubled him, he dug out an old journal from his youth to read. Years before he had written on the first page:

I will always be able to articulate my purpose.
I will endeavor to have balance in key areas of my life.
I will live with purpose and intention.
I will responsibly attend to my wants and needs.
I will have a plan for giving back to the community.
I will be a present and responsible head of my family.

These statements were guided by the values, goals and socio-cultural context in which he lived. Knowing that he had moved so far away from them was troubling.

A Season of Revitalization

After the Zoom golf lesson ended, the ten attendees talked about this being a season of revitalization for them. They talked about catching a new vision for their lives, for their businesses, yet all agreed how far they had drifted from their quality life purpose and plans and how important it was for them to re set their life compass.

Interestingly, we all shared news about the video conferencing events we’d been invited to. Golf was obviously of interest to us as golfers and was a small step toward refocusing our quality life. Even as we talked and laughed about the video conference events we’d been invited to (learning to cook, attending a music recital, exercising at home, portrait painting, dress making), it led us to question what would people in our personal and business world want to be invited to? Clearly not all of us would be interested in such video conference invitations.

What kind of events would we run that add meaning to life? More importantly, how would we even know what quality life and meaning looked like in the lives of those people if we didn’t know them at a deeper level.

This led to a wider conversation. Given that many people were having profound and meaningful conversations and looking at their lives through a completely different lens, how could we work with them or their clients to ensure our service offering genuinely added value to their quality and life goals?

Further, how would we know what those were? As a group we’d forgotten or laid aside our own quality life purpose to some degree. So, how then to now engage with family, friends and clients to understand and gain insight into what a quality life looked like for them?

‘Money Confidence’ Is a Key

From my own perspective I’m already seeing investors keen to understand their financial personality as they make potentially life-changing decisions. They clearly see how understanding their financial personality will build “money confidence” to make decisions that build a quality life performance in the areas of:

Life purpose
Career
Finances
Health and Recreation
Community
Relationships
Confidence
Wisdom

Over the next few months, I will unpack the importance of understanding how having a clear quality life purpose and plan can lead to significant money confidence. I hope you will join me on this journey that is at once both introspective and collaborative.

HM

How can you determine your behavioral quality of life?

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Every human is unique — and the best leaders know why this might be an advantage. Learn how embracing different talents and abilities, both our own and those of others, can lead to more effective leadership and success.

Grounded in statistical research and supported by data from millions of clients and more than 45 years of workplace experience, Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie reveal their personal stories and experience on how they’ve successfully helped organizations achieve their goals by applying practical insights on human design.

Get Your Copy

Additional discount available for bulk orders.

“…There are few that have made significant strides on making ‘knowing yourself’ operational and real as Lee and Hugh have in this marvelous book. Reading this book is a compelling adventure. If you follow the path, you will change for the better!” – Richard Boyatzis, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People Change

“This is the book that I have longed for during my decades in managing talent. Having seen the positive impact of DNA Behavior on my teams, this is a must-read for leaders who desire to build strong teams by accelerating natural talents in an authentic and lasting way.” – Belva White, CPA, MBA, Vice President for Finance & Treasury, Emory University

 

Hugh Massie

Hugh Massie – President and Founder of DNA Behavior International

Hugh Massie is a Behavioral Finance Strategist helping people and organizations worldwide “behavioralize money”. His purpose is to guide people to be Behaviorally SMART for achieving greater financial empowerment so they can live with meaning and unlock their human potential.

Hugh liberates investors, advisors and organizational leaders with a unique blend of financial personality and economic insights to make improved life, financial and business decisions. In particular, he helps people become more self-aware so they do not make emotional decisions under pressure which sabotage their relationships and long-term horizon goals.

Hugh has over 60,000 hours of experience serving millions of investors with assets of $1 to $1 billion+ and the leaders of more than 2,500 businesses in 123 countries. (www.BehaviorallySmart.com)

 

 

 

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Free Chapter Download of ‘Leadership Behavior DNA’

Take a test drive of Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie’s new book and see how it’s making the case for the ways that human behavior can be used to make stronger leaders and teams.

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Learn How to Lead Based on Differences

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Every human is unique — and the best leaders know why this might be an advantage. Learn how embracing different talents and abilities, both our own and those of others, can lead to more effective leadership and success.

Grounded in statistical research and supported by data from millions of clients and more than 45 years of workplace experience, Lee Ellis and Hugh Massie reveal their personal stories and experience on how they’ve successfully helped organizations achieve their goals by applying practical insights on human design.

Order Your Copy

Additional discount available for bulk orders.

“…There are few that have made significant strides on making ‘knowing yourself’ operational and real as Lee and Hugh have in this marvelous book. Reading this book is a compelling adventure. If you follow the path, you will change for the better!” – Richard Boyatzis, Co-author of the international best seller, Primal Leadership and the new Helping People Change

“This is the book that I have longed for during my decades in managing talent. Having seen the positive impact of DNA Behavior on my teams, this is a must-read for leaders who desire to build strong teams by accelerating natural talents in an authentic and lasting way.” – Belva White, CPA, MBA, Vice President for Finance & Treasury, Emory University

 

 

 

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On This Day in Leadership History, September 20th

On this day in leadership history in 1995, the U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.

What’s the leadership lesson? Honorable leaders know that every decision can’t come across their desk. With a healthy culture and values, empower others around you to make important decisions.

 

 

 

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A Special Message on National POWMIA Day

On National POWMIA Day, we remember the brave Americans throughout history who were captured by the enemy or are still missing and unaccounted for. In addition to this short video message, here’s just one story below that I wanted to share about Captain Mike Brazelton.

Captain Mike Brazelton was shot down by flak on 7 August 1966 on his 120th combat mission and captured as a POW. Here was his message upon his release in March 1973 –

“After spending six and a half years as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, it is an understatement to say that ‘It’s good to be home.’ The experience that I and my compatriots underwent was, without a doubt, a filthy, frustrating, boring, monotonous, heart-breaking, uncomfortable, and (many times) painful existence.

“The extraordinary praise that has been directed at us since our return is, we feel, undeserved. It seemed obvious that we should have conducted ourselves as we did while prisoners. As military officers and men we did nothing more than what was our duty.

“The tremendous and enthusiastic reception that was part of home-coming has made me super-proud that I am an American. After looking at the face of the enemy for a considerable period of time, there is no doubt in my mind that the United States is the paragon of freedom regardless of imperfections that may exist.

“Those of us who were prisoners during this conflict have as much esteem and respect for our countrymen who supported their POWs as Americans seem to have for us. That support and devotion greatly helped our morale and physical well-being. Without it, many of us would not have returned with the good health, both physical and mental, that we did. And, perhaps, some might not have returned at all.

“When I try to think of the most profound statement possible with which I can express my thoughts, all I can say is: ‘It’s good to be home!'”

For his heroic service he was awarded four Silver Stars, the Distinguished Flying Cross, eight Air medals and two Purple Hearts. He has 330 hours combat flying time. Col Mike Brazelton retired from the Air Force in 1987 and retired as an American Airlines captain in 2002.

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Col Mike Brazelton – POW Network Biography

Col Mike Brazelton – Veterans Tribute Page

 

 

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The Mystery of The ‘E’ In CEO

Great reminders from friend Patrick Lencioni on what “E” means in “CEO” and how we can all get on board with our focused purpose as leaders.

Check out his advice on Chief Executive website.

 

 

 

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