Meaningful Mondays - Arrows Out

Culture

"The culture of any organization is shaped by the worst behavior the leader is willing to tolerate." ... Gruenter and Whitaker

Authenticity

Authenticity is the degree to which one is true to one's own personality, spirit, or character, despite external pressures.

Freedom and Rivers

Freedom is not free.

The Future is in Your Imagination, The Present is Now

The Future is in Your Imagination, The Present is Now.
Life Coach and Leadership Guru, Lee Brower, discusses how being in the present will help you be a better leader.

Self Actualization

Self Actualization is a great characteristic of Leadership, but it is not the lonely road.  If you want to get to a destination fast, go by yourself... if you want to get to a GREAT destination, then you better go together. - Lee Brower

Butterfly 'MOM'ents

Mothers know the struggles of the caterpillar, the loneliness of the cocoon,  and enjoyed the beauty of the butterfly.

Compassion

Coffee, Hot Chocolate, or Tea?
How leaders with COMPASSION empower others.

Curiosity

1. Lifelong learning:
    a. Einstein: “The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.”
    b. Curiosity is more important than knowledge.”  - Einstein
    c. “The mind is not a container to be filled; it is a fire to be kindled and stoked.”  - LMB
2. Responding – The Green R.
     a. Red R versus Green R
     b. Curiosity is the opposite of choosing sides.  - LMB
3. Growing—
     a. “I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.”  - Eleanor Roosevelt
     b. Misfortunes make us wise… when we ask why… not why did this happen to me.

“Nothing is worse than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. People die when curiosity goes.”  - Graham Colin Swift

Powerful Vision

What are the two greatest responsibilities of a leader?
"My vision of the future sustains present agonies."

Leadership Characteristic #2

Decisions based on your True Wealth protect and empower those things you value most.