ARTICLES BY DR. ANDY NEILLIE, CSP
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Self-Leadership: Five tools I use to be productive
The First Job of a Leader is Self-Leadership
I’ve shared on several other blogs earlier this year the importance of a leader leading himself or herself first. Much of self-leadership has to do with personal integrity, character and living by a moral compass. But some of self-leadership simply has to do with living in a competent, disciplined way. I use five tools to help me keep the promises I make to others (and myself).
Here are the five tools I use to do so.…
Read MoreLeadership, Lawn-mowing & 3 Realities
We moved a few years ago. We left behind a half-acre yard and steep hills. In its place: a yard that can be mowed in 30 minutes. Front and back. From putting my gloves on, getting the mower out of the shed, filling it up, firing it up, emptying the grass-catcher a few times, wiping it down and putting it away, I’ve spent no more than half an hour. Read on to see what that has to do with leadership.
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Read MorePersonal Leadership is hard
Discipline is hard – harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can’t even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.
– Dr. Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto: How to get things done right, p. 183
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Read MoreLeadership Abdication
Who’s in charge? This is a huge leadership question. While it would seem to have a simple answer – the leader is – too often simple isn’t easy.
Leaders are too often guilty of trying to be consensus-builders instead of leaders. Or politicians instead of leaders. Or hand-wringers instead of leaders. Or one of my greatest fears, leadership abdication: a leader acting as a constituency-pleaser instead of a leader.
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Read MoreThe Leadership Six: 6 numbers that need to be front-of-mind for every good leader
Here are the most important Leadership Numbers we need to remember: 1-3-5 and 2-4-6. Depending on the level of your leadership investment, there are two other numbers that may be important to you: 5 and 10. More about those leadership numbers in a minute. But first, the first three leadership numbers:
1-3-5
The first three numbers represent weeks. A good leader is purposeful about the now and the very near future.
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