Leaders Eat Last Deluxe

Chapman and his wife watched a wedding ceremony unfold. The groom stood, staring at his approaching bride. The feeling of love the two had for each other was palpable. Everyone there could feel it. And then, as tradition dictated, the father handed his daughter, his baby girl, to her future husband.

made the course change he did may surprise you. The Awesome Responsibility

“Those at the top,” explains Captain Marquet, “have all the authority and none of the information. Those at the bottom,” he continues, “have all the information and none of the authority. Not until those without information relinquish their control can an organization run better, smoother and faster and reach its maximum potential.”

Weak leaders are the ones who only extend the benefits of the Circle of Safety to their fellow senior executives and a chosen few others.

“Leaders are to provide direction and intent and allow others to figure out what to do and how to get there.”

the exception rather than the rule.

The lower someone’s rank in the organizational hierarchy, the greater their risk of stress-related health problems, not the other way around. In other words, those seemingly strung-out top executives were, in fact, living longer, healthier lives than the clerks and managers working for them. “The more senior you are in the employment hierarchy, the

Though it may take small steps to make a big leap, it is the vision of the big leap and not the action of the small steps that inspires us.

There is so much talk about awareness or “driving the conversation” that we’ve failed to notice that talk doesn’t solve problems; the investment of time and energy by real human beings does.