Quote of the Day!

“It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.”

- Anthony Robbins

Quote of the Day!

"It takes more energy to be mad and less energy to be happy, so use your energy wisely."

- unknown

Quote of the Day!

"Visions are worth fighting for."

- Orson Welles to Ed Wood in Ed Wood

I guess I am a Zombie!

Why I am a zombie!

I can't remember the last time I actually slept 8 hours. It's not that I don't want to... I just can't. I am a night owl. A true night owl.

Quote of the Day!

"I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could."

- George Bernard Shaw

Just in time for St. Patrick's Day!

Being a Leader

A leader is not about being right or wrong. It is not about telling others what to do. It is not about being the best. It is not about being perfect. It is not about taking credit. In fact, it is much more than that...

A leader should be right and wrong. They should be human and make the decisions that become right or wrong. They are the people who listen and listen well. They hear and feel what others say. They absorb it, learn from it and make the decisions that must be made. It's not always the easy decision or the right one. It's just a decision.

A leader shouldn't tell others what to do or what to accomplish. You should empower them to accomplish, to explore, to make decisions, to take ownership and to learn. You are the nurturer, the "helper" and the guide. You should listen to your team, learn from your team and encourage forward movement. A leader who closes his ears, has no one following him.

A leader should never be the best person on a team. A leader should be the magnet for the best people to revolve around. To interact. To think and to execute. You are there to listen and learn from the best, to encourage them to work together for the common goal. To remind them why they are the best.

A leader is never perfect and should make mistakes. The process of learning is just a series of mistakes made on a long journey. A journey filled with circumstances, situations and outside influence. One with many forks and outcomes. Some promising and some empty. In order to learn, you have to listen, observe and react. A life stopped learning is a life not fulfilled. Mistakes are meant to be made just as decisions are. The crime isn't in making a mistake, it is not learning from that mistake.

And once all the decisions have been made, the mistakes corrected, your team empowered and the goal has been fulfilled, you do what all great leaders should do. You acknowledge others. You commend the team. You say and truly believe one thing, "We did it!"

Quote of the Day!

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'. They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but 'we' gets the credit.... This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done."

- Peter F. Drucker