Focus on your vision AND your current reality
Some people focus only on current realities and what’s needed to solve today’s problems. They are primarily concerned about their next steps, looking down at where to place their feet. They move from solving one problem to solving the next, eventually becoming bogged...
How to Show Leaders They Need to Delegate
How do you help leaders understand they need to delegate? I often hear this question, and it was the focus of this recent letter:Hello Jesse: What have you found are the most effective ways to engage business owners in the need to delegate? Are there particular pain...
A real vision is lived not framed.
Do you want to know if an organization has a real vision? Take a look at what's happening – what is being accomplished? how is it being accomplished? are people collaborating toward a common goal? how do they feel about each other, the leaders and the company? What...
Are Your Millennial Employees Turning You Into a Helicopter Manager?
Have you noticed that you’re supervising more closely, giving more direction, or spending more time with your millennial employees? It may be that in your efforts to support them, you are providing too much. You may be unconsciously continuing the kind of environment...
Can you listen to another view?
Tired of so much adversity and polarization? Who are you listening to? Instead of talking with people who agree with you, have conversations with those who don't. Start with listening. Is there something you agree with? Use that as your reference point when you do...
If your vision is about only yourself
Thursday Thoughts: If your vision is about only yourself, you are too narrowly focused. Jesse Lyn Stoner * * * * * * * * * * * * * * In addition to my regular leadership blog, I...
The best coaches coach themselves out of a job
Thursday Thoughts: The best coaches coach themselves out of a job. The goal is not to keep people dependent but to give them wings. The greatest gratification comes when the student outgrows the teacher. Jesse Lyn Stoner * * * * * ...
To Craft a Powerful Mission Statement Avoid These 6 Traps
One of the most important things you can do is to identify your team’s mission. And one of the biggest wastes of time is creating a mission statement that is not used. How to Write a Mission Statement in 5 Steps explains what a mission statement is and how to...
When your vision is clear… trust yourself and have faith even when
Thursday Thoughts: When your vision is clear, trust yourself and have faith... even when you don't know where your path is taking you. Jesse Lyn Stoner
Dynamic Duos: How Introverts and Extroverts Create Breakthrough Results
What do these famous pairs have in common? Lennon and McCartney Burns and Allen Jobs and Wozniak Lerner and Loewe Siskel and Ebert They are all dynamic duos: extrovert - introvert pairs who created something together that neither of them would...
Help is Not Always Helpful
If you interrupt the struggle of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon, it will be crippled for life. How do you know when to offer help and when to let someone to struggle (and possibly fail) in order to grow and learn? Thursday Thoughts: Help is not always helpful....
The 8 Portals of Influence: How to Lead Without Authority
I am delighted and honored that Tanmay Vora created this Sketch Note of "The 8 Portals of Influence," described in more detail in my blog How to Influence Without Authority. In today's complex world, leaders need to develop multiple channels of influence. These...