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If scale is the goal, your control over each interaction has to loosen. The job of the leader is to create the conditions for others to raise the standards.
Trusting your team isn’t settling for less. It’s settling for better.
Trusting your team isn’t settling for less. It’s settling for better.
The best leaders are not cost centers. They’re force multipliers.
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some become Flying Monkeys- resourced, rewarded, and often unaware of the role they’ve been cast into as the bully’s weapons. In every workplace where a Scapegoat is quietly isolated, excluded, or erased, there’s a cast of characters keeping the story in motion: the passive bystander, the image-protecting leader, the gossip relayer, and the well-me... See more
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In every workplace drama where someone is scapegoated, isolated, or quietly erased, there are others playing a part, some by choice, most by habit.
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-is this environment built for truth?or- is it an ecosystem built to protect appearances?
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PRAYER
CONFESSION: Lord,
help me to face the truth about myself.
Help me to hear my words as others hear them,
to see my face as others see me;
let me be honest enough to recognize
my impatience and conceit;
let me recognize my anger and selfishness;
give me sufficient humility to accept
my own weaknesses for what they are.
Give me the grace to say, “I was w... See more
CONFESSION: Lord,
help me to face the truth about myself.
Help me to hear my words as others hear them,
to see my face as others see me;
let me be honest enough to recognize
my impatience and conceit;
let me recognize my anger and selfishness;
give me sufficient humility to accept
my own weaknesses for what they are.
Give me the grace to say, “I was w... See more
Learning About the Power of Empowerment | David Hughes | TEDxAmericanInternationalSchoolofBucharest
youtube.comEmpowerment - how to unlock it
1. Time - it takes time for our folks to learn how, find their way
2. Failure - Is a great, corrective teacher
3. Trust - Failure to trust undermines the value of team members' success/failure
4. Support - Too much, too little - gotta find the right amount: bow + arrow
5. Celebrate - when we overcome the time, failure, trust and support obstacles, praise them for the outcome
Colin Powell once said, "If you don't fire people who are not doing the job, after you have counseled them and after you have brought them along, then you are hurting the whole organization."