by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership, Thursday Thoughts |
Thursday Thoughts: Be a leader worth following. People follow leaders by choice. Otherwise at best, you get mindless compliance. Read ➤ How to Be a Leader People Want to Follow. * * * * * * * * * * *...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership |
People follow leaders by choice. You can get compliance through imposing your authority, by coercion or manipulation, but you won’t be trusted and respected. And when your followers do have a choice, there is no guarantee they will continue to follow you. Or if you...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership |
Although my blog post The 40 Best Leadership Quotes has had almost 20,000 views, over 1600 social shares, and many comments, no one seems to have noticed that 85% of the quotes are by women. Since most of the “best leadership quotes” lists include less...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership |
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...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership |
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...
by Jesse Lyn Stoner | Leadership |
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...