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Self Assessment Tool: JoHari Window

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Michael Rose

The JoHari Window was designed by Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham in 1955 and is a great tool to help leaders understand who they are as people and to identify their strengths and weaknesses. The JoHari Window is a powerful tool to assists leaders in understanding their weaknesses are often apparent to other by their actions, regardless of…

Success is …

Posted on July 22, 2012July 11, 2018 by Michael Rose

Money, fancy cars, big homes, power, and fame – We all seem to hold certain cultural ideas of success. However, throughout various stages of life, in practical terms, our ideas of success changes. I came across this short story and in a silly way it speaks to our ideas of what exactly success is over a…

Change is a Process

Posted on April 20, 2012January 27, 2014 by Michael Rose

As leaders, we need to come to grips with the fact that everything is in a process of change continually; as we live life, build, create, sell or renovate things are changing. Even when things are left alone, the reality is they too change, they decay, time has a way of changing everything! To come to…

Measurable Outcomes Keep Us on Target

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Michael Rose

Setting specific, measurable goals and objectives is key in project management – like planning a road trip, you know where you want to head. You take the time to plan; you map your route, where you will grab meals, re-fuel and where you will spend the nights. It is really helpful to set specific mid-way…

Don't be Too Quick to Share a Good Idea

Posted on January 26, 2012February 19, 2016 by Michael Rose

If you are like me you get lots of ideas! Ideas about a lot of different things – how things can be improved, made more efficient, add more depth to life – lots of them. I have to admit though, not all those ideas have been good ideas! I have my fair share of bad…

Training to Succeed

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Michael Rose

In an ideal world, the people we hire would arrive the first day on the job and we would download everything they need to know through a USB cable in the back of the head! Training downloaded! This however is not the case and as we are all well aware there is a need for…

Is it Godly Leadership or Control?

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Michael Rose

In an organization, leaders generally consider themselves in the right. It is part of the paradigm they create for themselves: if you have succeeded in making your way to the top of an organization, then, by definition, the values for which you stand, must be right, because they have been authenticated and validated by peers…

Courage: Character of a Leader

Posted on October 11, 2011January 7, 2016 by Michael Rose

“Real courage defends values, principles and people, not property and profits.“ Mark Twain once wrote, “Courage is the resistance of fear, the mastery of fear- not the absence of fear.” Courage is key as we explore the character of healthy authentic leaders. But what is courage and what does it look like in real life?…

Closer to the Heart: Love Paradigm

Posted on September 9, 2011September 14, 2015 by Michael Rose

[I wrote this article in September 2009 as I was bringing pieces of the Love Paradigm together] Over the last several years, I have been on an adventure like none other. I have been so captivated by a dream, a vision that I see in my mind’s eye. Some days it is clearer than…

Wholeness: Thoughts and Actions

Posted on September 7, 2011March 13, 2015 by Michael Rose

Have you ever waxed so eloquently on something, and while standing amazed at your passionate overflow, you're arrested by the question “who just said that?” It's a pretty common thing as many of us often speak passionately about a cause, an ideal or injustice only to discover that while we spoke well of it, in our…