Here is some excellent leadership advice from a highly successful leader at world-renowned National Geographic. It is applicable to every healthcare leader in the world. Meet with each member of your team, both individually and collectively, and empower them by empahatically and sincerely stating: “You don’t have to prove yourself, not to me, or to the …
A critically important, universal success principle is featured throughout Dewitt Jones’ recent account of his experience as a photographer and photojournalist for National Geographic. Dewitt Jones is the highly acclaimed, world-class photographer whose images have been featured in scores of National Geographic expeditions over the past 20 years. On his very first day on the …
I do not know who wrote this simple, absolutely priceless advice. I do know that this advice is more precious and priceless than trainloads of pure gold. This advice, this “way of living” is 100% guaranteed to dramatically improve and enhance your leadership and your life! Read it. More importantly, remember and live it! …
A world-class advisor, who earns more than $20,000 a day advising and coaching senior executives from some of the largest companies in the world, is speaking to a group of young executives, all of whom are on the official “executive fast-track” within their individual companies. Young executives on the official “executive fast-track” have been deemed …
In the excellent book titled The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea, The Chairman, a hugely successful and wise entrepreneur and business leader comments on the coffee just served by Rachel. Rachel is a member of the staff at The Chairman’s mansion and estate. The Chairman comments to his student and mentee named …
Garr Reynolds (http://www.garrreynolds.com) made an excellent and very interesting presentation at a recent TED conference in Tokyo. The presentation was titled Ten Lessons From The Bamboo. Reynolds used superb pictures and content to describe important life and success lessons we can all apply for greater personal and professional success. The first 3 lessons Reynolds discussed are as …
“Tell you what I said. I’ll work with him for a year. If he gets better, pay me. If not, it’s all free.” What a powerful statement. What a powerful way to begin a productive, trusting relationship. What a powerful strategy for current and future success! This statement was made by Marshall Goldsmith, one of …
We are in a study of Marshall Goldsmith’s excellent book, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful. The book is relevant to all healthcare executives who desire even greater success in the future. As Goldsmith points out, it’s not that successful people don’t know who they are, where …
How often do you revisit priceless treasures? Priceless treasures that, if revisited with purpose and focus, will make an even greater positive impact on your personal and professional life. Hopefully the answer to that question is “very often!” You are invited to join me in revisiting such a treasure… a superb book that, if studied …
Creativity is critical to our current and future personal, professional and organizational success. It is a fact that most people, including most leaders, talk a good game regarding creativity. However, very few people truly embrace, encourage and incent people, on a daily basis, to expand, explore and exploit their creative potential. In fact, most people …
C.S. Lewis wrote, “The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.” That is one powerful statement! Excellent advice that will, if heeded, significantly improve your leadership and your positive impact as you move through life. The most effective leaders very carefully select those who …
Kelly Goldsmith and Marshall Goldsmith recently wrote a thought-provoking article titled High-Impact Performers For Tough Times: 6 Ways to Keep Them Happy. The authors suggest steps to keep today’s high-impact performers and tomorrow’s great leaders happy: “1) Show Respect: This may seem obvious, but it can’t be done by rote. Genuinely treating employees with kindness, respect, …
I am betting that every person reading this article has heard the Golden Rule a thousand times. I am also betting that every person reading this article has been reminded, a thousand times or more, of the many benefits of living by the Golden Rule. Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto …
How many mistakes have you made today? How many mistakes have you made this week? How many mistakes have you made this month or this year? There are at least two correct and very powerful answers to these important questions: 1. The first correct and powerful answer is “more than I realize!” Everyone reading this …
Florence Nightingale, the English pioneer of modern nursing is quoted as saying, “I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took an excuse.” Particularly in this day and time, we hear and see excuses by the thousands… all day long, each and every day. Emails, voice mails, texts, twitter, videos, phone calls, face-to-face conversations, …
Saturday afternoon, August 14, 2010. I am on sacred ground… sacred that is, for many of the most committed, passionate professional football fans throughout America and around the world. The first preseason game of the Green Bay Packers will begin in 4 hours at revered Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Having lived in Dallas/Fort …
In his excellent book titled, What Got You Here Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, Marshall Goldsmith does an excellent job of explaining why virtually all successful people resist changes necessary to go from where they are (here), to where they want to go (there). Goldsmith calls this propensity ‘The Success Delusion.’ He writes, …
A recent issue of Fortune Magazine featured an article entitled: Five Business Myths To Ditch Now. The author, Verne Harnish writes, “There’s nothing like humbling times to force chief executives [and other leaders] to let go of the sacred-cow ideas and grandiose illusions they’ve been harboring… and start building on reality.” The five myths – …
This is the fourth and last in a series of articles examining Leadership Lessons from the highly effective, world-renowned leader named Dwight D. Eisenhower, the thirty-fourth president of the United States. We have been examining the still, highly relevant leadership lessons contained in the book entitled: Dwight Eisenhower’s Leadership Lessons. The book is free to …
In a recent wide-ranging interview with Traci Bernard, President, Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital in Southlake, Texas, I asked the following question: Based on your experience and success as a healthcare leader, what advice would you give healthcare professionals who aspire to be a healthcare CEO or senior executive? Traci’s succinct, but very powerful response provides excellent …