Without Discernment, Leaders Fail - We learn, then we digest that learning; finally we discern the appropriate application of the learning.– Hugh Ballou - Leading is Applied Wisdom - I’ve just finished presenting to people this week in 5 separate gr...

Continuous improvement requires systematic evaluation. Continuous improvement requires unfiltered evaluation. - Anonymous - Mastering the Evaluation is a Valuable Leadership Skill - Often I interview a potential client and hear that they have a strat...

Envision the Future Everybody has a dream. Only 3 out of every 100 people will actually do something about that dream by acting on the vision. Unfortunately, 9 out of 10 people attempting to launch a new enterprise, whether a business or a charity,

Hugh Ballou Interviews Dave Lucas about his Misfit Entrepreneur concepts and systems. - The Interview Transcript - Ep 53, Interview with Dave Lukas Hugh Ballou: Dave Lukas has this podcast called the Misfit Entrepreneur. Dave, you and I met virtually,

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Effective leaders are not always right. They ensure that leaders on their teams are. Leading is empowering others. - Hugh Ballou - - As leaders, we follow what we have been taught by habit, and mostly out of ignorance of what else to do.

The Transformational Leader Effectively Delegates - A common leadership challenge is defining how to empower teams to function at a higher level, producing more quality results. This is an opportunity to effectively manage one's own schedule by gettin...

You have inherited a lifetime of tribulation. Everybody has inherited it. Take it over, make the most of it and when you have decided you know the right way, do the best you can with it. - Murray Bowen - Over the past 8 years of study of Bowen Systems,

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We sometimes make a plan (entrepreneurs keep a lot of ideas in their minds and don’t always make a written plan to share), and sometimes we create action items for the plan, and sometimes we connect the plan to implementation. If we do those things,

An effective leader does not have all the answers, but asks good questions. - In the beginning, people think vulnerability will make you weak, but it does the opposite. It shows you're strong enough to care. - Victoria Pratt -

The More the Leader Controls the Group, the Less Effective the Results Become - My friend and colleague, Larry Dill, hired me to develop a world-class music program in Huntsville, Alabama. When he called to invite me to consider the position,

Balance…or Not! - I’m writing a new book. I’m thinking of calling it Adrenaline as a Way of Life. Or maybe I’ll try Time: There Will Never be Enough of It, So Squander What You’ve Got. Here’s a sneak peak at my chapter outline. -

We give energy to what we think about. - Anonymous - You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. - James Allen - Negative Thoughts - Managing our thoughts is the only thing we truly have con...

OS 042: The "Shadow" that Limits Our Effectiveness with Dr David Gruder

Managing our use of time * Keeping yourself organized * Writing things down * Time wasters * Sharing your goals - Keeping within the plan…intuitively knowing what not to do - Practice managing self wishing the allowed time - FOCUS -

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound. - James Allen - Studying Leadership - Being or becoming an effective leader means being a serious student of leadership,

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Everybody talks about poor communication, but few do anything about it. - Hugh Ballou Communication is a Leadership Skill

Dreams are not the opposite of reality. Dreams inform reality. – Seth Godin* - Leaders struggle with apparent conflicts and opposite strategies. Transformational Leadership is about transforming thoughts as well as cultures.

- - The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw - Did you get my email?

- - Validation Is Asking the Right Questions - We conduct surveys with the wrong questions and are not looking for data. We are mostly looking for a validation of our idea, position, or plan. I meet many leaders in the concept stage for a propose...

- - “We should not judge people by their peak of excellence, but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.” ― Henry Ward Beecher - Leaders Are Constantly Working on Skills For Nonprofit Leaders:

- - Any idea that’s held in the mind and emphasized, that’s either feared or revered will begin at once to clothe itself in the most convenient and appropriate physical form that’s available. - Andrew Carnegie (to Napoleon Hill) -

- - Today's resource: - A facilitation tool for solving problems Problem Solving Is a Process, Not a Snap Decision Few leaders or teams really understand how to create a process to develop lasting resolutions for problems.