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Captured by Love Wisdom for Today, June 20, 2025

Captured by Love Quote – ���Spend time on your areas of alignment. Find the interests and subjects that the two of you share. Then spend time together discussing and sharing your knowledge, feelings, and insights. If you listen with love, you will learn a lot from each other, and this will build a deeper intimacy.��� ��� Lee & Mary Ellis

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#Romance #Lovestory #Military #marriagegoals #Resilience #VietnamPOW #Courage #Passion #CapturedbyLove #LoveLessons

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Your Resilience Checklist Through the Summer

Who doesn���t need more resilience right now?? This simple graphic below is designed to show what it takes to build a strong resilience attitude. Check this out and then go deeper at the link displayed below –��

 

#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #leadershipbehavior #teamdevelopment #buildingculture #keynotespeaker #resilience

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3 Quick Points to Retain Your Character as an Honorable Leader

Whether we���re tuned into the evening news, cable channels, the local paper, or social media, the barrage of dis-honorable behavior can be overwhelming. It seems that everywhere we turn, deception, duplicity, and disrespect are coming at us like a tsunami.

Want to prepare yourself for these moments when you���re tempted to cut corners or ignore someone on your team acting with dis-honorable behavior? Here���s a three-point mantra for all of us:

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Recognize the enemy is in us.

Accountability starts when you recognize that every person is capable of dis-honorable behavior���that includes you and me. Andrew Carnegie, the famous industrialist of the 19th century, put it this way, ���All honor’s wounds are self-inflicted.���

 

Employ the carrot and the stick.

The carrot comes from our deepest desires, our strongest sources of energy���the source of our purest motives. Clarify your values and deep desires and make them a part of your daily life.

You can also see how the drive to succeed in meeting these strong desires might get distorted and cause us to cut corners. That���s where the stick of courageous accountability must be in play���the awareness that someone is going to hold us accountable.

 

Admit mistakes and correct back quickly.

Certainly, there are things in my life that I���m not proud of���decisions and behaviors that I wish I could replay and do differently. We can use them to correct back on track. Early recognition allows us to make small corrections���before we get far out of position or way off course.

 

Choosing to Win the Battle

In the pursuit of honor there is no easy day���human nature can be weak���and temptations never sleep. ��As H. Norman Schwarzkopf, General and Commander of Forces in the Persian Gulf War says, ���The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.���

You can read entire blog on this topic – “The Silent Majority���s Call: Leaders Rise and Lead with Honor”

 

Engage and Align Your Team This Summer

Thousands of leaders and teams are already using the Courageous Accountability Model to manage team communication and decisions:

Begin using it immediately in your day-to-day decision-making and witness the results of better team performance and results. We offer three options–choose the one that best fits your objectives and goals:

 

Personal Study

Read the award-winning book, Engage with Honor: Building a Culture of Courageous Accountability, to learn and apply this model.

Purchase in the Online Store

Purchase on Amazon

 

Group Self-Study Program

The Engage with Honor Training Guide provides 10 self-guided lessons that you and your team can study together.

Purchase in the Online Store

Purchase the book and training together and save 30%

 

Group Online Study Course

Many leaders don���t feel qualified to conduct training, and it���s expensive. The Courageous Accountability Development Course, is an online platform using the latest, real-time collaborative learning technology to ensure the best learning environment possible.

Learn More and watch a sample interview

Request a complimentary course demo

 

 

 

#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #resilience #teamdevelopment #buildingculture #keynotespeaker

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FAQ on Applying Leadership Principles at Home

Leading with Honor FAQ ��� ���How can accountability principles that you use for training be adapted into my personal life (family, wife, and children)?���

Lee���s Answer ��� ���Very much the same as described in my book, Engage with Honor. Human nature is the same. The one thing about home life is that we don���t always have the power we think we do and therefore must lead more by influence and example. That���s a good thing I think.

���It���s just hard for some people who lead by ���command��� at work (people jump when they speak) to make adjustment at home���where things need to be more collaborative. Of course, the collaborative approach generally works best for developing the next generation, both at home and at work.���

Lee Ellis’ award-winning book, Engage with Honor, is mentioned in the answer above. Get your copy in the Leading with Honor Store or Amazon.com.��

 

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Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, June 13, 2025

���Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.” – Horace Greeley

 

#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #resilience #teamdevelopment #buildingculture #keynotespeaker

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Coaching Clip – How Leaders Today Can Create a Positive Accountability Culture

In this month���s 5-minute coaching clip, Lee reminds honorable leaders of the dangers of a lack of accountability in our work and culture. And, then he offers some advice on creating an authentic culture of positive accountability where everyone can benefit. This is practical counsel for all leaders today.������������

You can also read the entire coaching blog on this topic – “The Silent Majority���s Call: Leaders Rise and Lead with Honor”

 

Engage and Align Your Team This Summer

Thousands of leaders and teams are already using the Courageous Accountability Model to manage team communication and decisions:

Begin using it immediately in your day-to-day decision-making and witness the results of better team performance and results. We offer three options–choose the one that best fits your objectives and goals:

 

Personal Study

Read the award-winning book, Engage with Honor: Building a Culture of Courageous Accountability, to learn and apply this model.

Purchase in the Online Store

Purchase on Amazon

 

Group Self-Study Program

The Engage with Honor Training Guide provides 10 self-guided lessons that you and your team can study together.

Purchase in the Online Store

Purchase the book and training together and save 30%

 

Group Online Study Course

Many leaders don���t feel qualified to conduct training, and it���s expensive. The Courageous Accountability Development Course, is an online platform using the latest, real-time collaborative learning technology to ensure the best learning environment possible.

Learn More and watch a sample interview

Request a complimentary course demo

 

 

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Leadership History Lesson for June 8th

On this day in leadership history in 1786 in New York City, commercially manufactured ice cream was advertised for the first time.

What���s the leadership lesson? Honorable leaders know how to mix business, fun, and enjoyment into their everyday work. It���s a successful strategy that works every time.

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Leading with Honor Wisdom for Today, June 6, 2025

“Without accountability each can do whatever seems right in his or her own eyes and that leads to chaos���a very dangerous environment that quickly takes us away from truth and justice.” ��� Lee Ellis

 

#courage #leadership #accountability #employeeengagement #resilience #teamdevelopment #buildingculture #keynotespeaker

 

 

 

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Giving Back Recommendation – Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund

As a giving back option, please consider the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund (VVMF) during the summer months. They���re a nonprofit organization authorized by the U.S. Congress in 1980 to build a national memorial dedicated to all who served with the U.S. armed forces in the Vietnam War and lead ongoing awareness of those who served out country in this regard.

Leading with Honor supports this worthwhile organization ��� please learn more

 

 

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The Sinister Consequences of Taking Shortcuts

As part of our honor-driven purpose at Leading with Honor, we���ll occasionally share articles from other leaders and organizations who are doing great things in various areas. My friend Tim Elmore communicates this point on taking shortcuts so succinctly that I wanted to share.

Please read this article on Tim’s website, and then post your comments on this topic, too.

 

 

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