Are you familiar with this quote: “Attitude reflects leadership?”
I saw it written on someone’s whiteboard yesterday. I knew I had heard it before, and assumed it was a timeless quote uttered by a leadership guru of decades ago, or maybe a coach like Lombardi or Landry. Regardless, I couldn’t shake it all day, so I looked it up last night. Best I can tell, it came from this scene from the movie Remember the Titans in 2000:
Something pretty cool happened this past Tuesday night. Steve Woodruff and Lisa Petrilli launched #LeadershipChat on Twitter. I must admit, between putting a little boy to bed and watching the Rangers win their first-ever playoff series, I was only able to get in on about the last 10 minutes. But it was quite an impressionable period of time.
As you glance through the transcript and read some of the recaps (this one at Wright Creativity is excellent), you may have a similar reaction as I did: how many stinkin’ definitions and/or traits of leadership can we come up with? Those offered included …
“Smoking killed far more people than terrorists ever did. It’s just not as dramatic.”
You can thank Seth Godin for that loaded byte. His post on the power of slow change makes a great point: single events don’t crush anything; series of events over time do.
On the one hand, you’ve got something to be happy about: no individual act is make or break for you. So stop treating it that way.
So what could Jimmy Carter know about running a direct sales company? A lot, actually. Could your attitude use a little Jimmy?
Why Micro-Managing is Good: good managers aren’t afraid to micro-manage their teams if it’s needed.
This leadership lesson from a dancing guy and Derek Sivers captures so many principles it’s ridiculous.
Your team wants you to tell them what the strategy is? Do you know it? Do they know it?
When the tribe speaks, you have to listen. Success in business today resides in tapping into the right tribes.
A leadership lesson from Ted’s Montana Grill in Atlanta.
Brett’s note: The Vault is a periodic opportunity to look back at some of the better moments of MarketingInProgress.com. This post was originally written on May 24, 2007. If It Ain’t Broke . . . . . . don’t fix it, right? We’ve all heard that one before, and sometimes it’s true. However, more times [...]
