jeff noel Claims Leadership Is Like Training A Puppy

That’s my boy…

He’s in training, a quick learner with lots of initiative and very little fear…

A real go getter…

Says jeff noel, people can be trained the same way Dogs can be trained. But most people are not good Dog trainers. And therefore, are missing the fundamentals to be a great leader.

The difference between a manager and a leader is in the definition. The difference between a manager and a leader is in their behaviors, and the clarity of their thinking.

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The Blog Whisperer Is Continuously Experimenting With Blogging

Gathering knowledge through study and experimentation has a goal. Most don’t know the bigger picture.

Far too often in organizations, leaders toss aside the very reason they are there, their higher purpose. In it’s place is the boring mediocrity of going through the motions.

Transforming themselves and those around them is polluted by tasks – finding answers to questions that don’t matter rather than seeking questions that do.

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3 Things My Friend Looks For

He’s also an expert at Time Management…

He looks for 3 things. Skill, attitude and passion.

That would be my friend, Lee Cockerell.

Okay, got the attitude and passion down cold.

If focus, discipline and purpose were rolled together into a single skill, then it looks like 3 for 3.

Do you have tactics for pressing on, no matter the obstacles? You should. Blogging is the best one for me. You just witnessed real life in real time, and may not have even known.

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Shun The Ducks

Is this what Flannery meant by a duck?

Let me ask you a critical question.

So what then is a duck, as Flannery O’Conner calls out in the post below? It sounds negative.

Are you able to identify, within your work responsibilities, the part of your job that gives you purpose, or is it easier to quack about all the problems and complain about how difficult things are?

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Suffering Through Leadership

Five miles from the nearest paved road, we set out in the pitch dark…

If you just came from jeff noel.org, you saw the insight on suffering. Saturday night, we were scared. On a weekend Cub Scout camping trip, we went for an hour hike, in the (4,700-acre Forever) Florida wilderness.

Thirty minutes out. Thirty minutes back. In the pitch dark. No flash lights. No moon. Just dark.

Bravery isn’t absence of fear, nor the mastery (as some suggest) of fear. Bravery is the habit of confronting your fears – the essence of a great leader, anywhere.

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