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A Leadership Lesson: Two Guys With Guns by: Brent Filson Raymond Chandler author of the famous Philip Marlowe detective stories advised writers suffering from writers’ block: “Whenever you get stuck, have two guys walk through the door with guns.” Leadership has its own “leader’s block.” All leaders now and then get a good dose of [...]
Status Quo Pep Talks That Can Threaten Your Leadership by: Brent Filson Organizations live and die by results. Yet most organizations get a fraction of the results they are capable of. There are many reasons for this: poor strategy, poor leadership, insufficient resources, etc. But one main reason is overlooked by most leaders. Many organizations [...]
Blowing Your Own Leadership Horn by: Brent Filson There are two streams of competitiveness running through every organization. The first goes outward: It’s the organization’s competitive activities toward its competitors. The second goes inward: It’s the competitiveness of leaders inside the organization who are vying against one another for power, recognition, privilege and promotion. To [...]
25 Leadership Maxims by: Brent Filson “We will never know how really good we are as leaders unless we are leading people to be better than they think they are.” “Poor performance is less harmful to a leader than mediocre performance disguised as good performance.” “Most leaders are striving to get the wrong results or [...]
Leading Bad Actors To Be Good Performers by: Brent Filson A successful leader told me, “The biggest challenge I’ve had in my career is dealing with bad actors. Brent, do you have tips on how to do it?” First, before we can deal with “bad actors”, we must define the term bad actors. You already [...]
The 20/60/20 Rule Of Leadership. Don’t Go Solving The Wrong Problems by: Brent Filson Several decades ago, a passenger jet approached a Florida airport with the pilot and co-pilot struggling to fix what they thought was a malfunctioning landing gear. The landing-gear light was on, signaling that the gear was deployed; but both men did [...]
Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk by: Brent Filson To develop and deliver a great Leadership Talk, you must understand that every Talk has three important parts. (1) Audience Needs. (2) Strong Belief. (3) Action. (1) Audience needs: The first step in putting together a Leadership [...]
Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk. (Part Two) by: Brent Filson In Part One, I described the Leadership Talk and how it is a much more effective leadership tool than presentations or speeches. I also described two fundamental premises that the Leadership Talk is based on. [...]
Turbo Charge Your Career With The Most Powerful Leadership Tool Of All: The Leadership Talk. (Part One) by: Brent Filson Leaders speak 15 to 20 times daily. You speak at meetings, you speak across their desks, you speak on the phone, you speak in e-mails, you speak at lunch, beside the water cooler, and on [...]
The Four Laws Of Leadership by: Brent Filson Leadership is motivational or it’s stumbling in the dark. After all, isn’t it more effective to have people want to go from point A to point B instead of to be ordered to go from A to B? The ability to instill “want to” in others, to [...]