Each week, I collect the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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Ryan Pendell, Gallup:
“Respect at Work Returns to a Record Low” (1-13-25).
“Respect and employee engagement are intertwined. Engaged employees are surrounded by coworkers who listen to their opinions, recognize their hard work and care about their development. Not surprisingly, they feel respected.”
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Daniel Goleman:
“Executives Without Purpose” (Week of 1-20-25).
Quoting Charlotte Burgess-Auburn —
“‘If you’re not living life according to your own values, you’re most likely living them according to someone else’s.'”
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Art Petty:
“How leaders can solve their organization’s creative deficit”
(1-21-25).
“The lack of freedom and encouragement to ideate, share, explore and experiment isn’t a cultural flaw; it’s a leadership failing. The challenge for leaders … is to gain help uncovering and fixing the friction points and practices stifling creativity.”
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Marcel Schwantes:
“Say Yes to This Question, and You’re Probably a Great Leader”
(1-20-25).
As discussed, leadership is service.
“Did I have a positive impact on someone today?”
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Pierre Gurdjian et al.:
McKinsey Classic
“Why leadership-development programs fail” (1-1-14).
“Identifying some of the deepest, ‘below the surface’ thoughts, feelings, assumptions, and beliefs is usually a precondition of behavioral change—one too often shirked in development programs. …. It’s true that some personality traits (such as extroversion or introversion) are difficult to shift, but people can change the way they see the world and their values.”
