by Rick Baker
On Jan 24, 2021
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
When we were young a lot of people started to say "No" to us. We were made to believe it was wrong to say and do certain things....many things. The rules of "No" versus "Yes" were inconsistent, depending on who was saying them and where all of us were when they were being said. Regardless, when we were instructed "No" we received the message we were doing something wrong...i.e., making a mistake. We heard "No" so many times when we were young we still ruminate about our mistakes, sometimes even the mistakes we made when we were young.
We should shake that off.
by Rick Baker
On Jan 23, 2021
The Thinking Behind The Tweet
Sometimes they replace combative ways with kindness; sometimes they replace softer ways with assertiveness.
Other times they improve their voice, vocabulary, and body language to improve their communication style...adding clarity and power to it.
Great leaders are attuned to their habits, both the good ones and the bad ones. They choose to replace their bad habits with new things - adding good habits, habits proven to deliver positive results.
Beyond everything else, the greatest leaders are masters of self-awareness and self-control.
And they know leadership is an ongoing series of thought-and-action choices. So they define thought-and-action boundaries for themselves and they work continuously at living within those thought-and-action boundaries.
by Rick Baker
On Jan 22, 2021