Tag: Leadership

10 Ideas for Empowering Leadership

Posted on by Michael Rose
Leadership is not a job, not a role one plays at work and then puts aside during the commute home in order to relax and enjoy real life. Rather, leadership is the leader’s real life. –    CHRIS LOWNEY, Heroic Leadership Leadership flows from who you are and whether you realize it or not you are…
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Change is a Process

Posted on 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…
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Measurable Outcomes Keep Us on Target

Posted on 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…
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Is it Godly Leadership or Control?

Posted on 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…
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Untangling Unity

Posted on by Michael Rose
Early in October I had a wonderful experience with a number of  folks in North Carolina.  It was marvelous for several reasons, the people were delightful in their own ways with their own expressions of the Kingdom and the Gospel story.  There were folks from Australia, Germany, the UK, Canada and from many of the…
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Courage: Character of a Leader

Posted on 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?…
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Inspiring Leaders

Posted on by Michael Rose
Today’s effective, healthy leaders understand that those they lead are not a commodity to be consumed.  No longer a product to be bought and used to serve the grand vision of the leader.  More people are seeking significance from their work.  Where in generations past employees have been content to contort for the sake of…
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