ARTICLES BY DR. ANDY NEILLIE, CSP
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Leadership Hyperopia: the good and bad of it
Leadership and Farsightedness.
According to the American Optometric Association, “Farsightedness, or hyperopia, as it is medically termed, is a vision condition in which distant objects can be seen clearly, but close ones do not come into proper focus.”
I’ve been told I think big-picture. While I don’t consider myself a natural-born visionary, I like to think in broad swaths. What could be possible? What are the big implications if we could? How would that change our long-term outlook? …
Dan Allender on Leadership Vulnerability
“. . . to the degree you face and name and deal with your failures as a leader, to that same extent you will create an environment conducive to growing and retaining productive and committed colleagues.”
“. . . to the degree you attempt to hide or dissemble your weaknesses, the more you will need to control those you lead, the more insecure you will become, and the more rigidity you will impose — prompting the ultimate departure of your best people.”
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Leadership 101: Three Reasons why Leaders must be Meeters
There’s a growing leadership discussion about minimizing meetings. The argument goes this way, “meetings are a waste of time” “nothing good happens in meetings” “meetings keep me from doing my real work as a leader.”
Let me be perfectly clear: I vehemently disagree
Leaders: we must be “meeters”
I will go so far as to say that one of the most important jobs of a leader is to be in meetings.
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