Month: November 2017

  • SHARE STORIES

    Storytelling is an important aspect of being a front-line leader. It can be used to build emotional connections with others and inspire them. Stories can come from outside the organization, but it is best for them to come from within., as those stories create a sense of shared belonging and make employees feel part of…

  • BLIND TRUST OR DISTRUST: IDENTIFYING ONE’S GLASSES

    People view the world through two different types of glasses that various factors throughout their lives have helped to shape. Covey and Link identify these glasses as blind trust glasses or distrust glasses and offer a third alternative: smart trust glasses. Looking through blind trust glasses creates a naïve, gullible, blissful trust in almost everyone and everything.…

  • TRUST : Hard to build

    People perceive the world today as a very untrustworthy place. Statistics indicate that only 46 percent of survey respondents trust business to do what is right. Furthermore, only 20 percent of Americans trust the country’s financial system. The federal government’s inability to hammer out a deficit/debt solution, and the ongoing European Union debt crisis, has…

  • DREAM TO REALITY

    Maxwell describes six characteristics associated with people who experience fulfillment as they pursue their dreams: * Fulfilled people understand the difference between a dream and its realization. The idealized image of a dream that everyone carries in their head is usually not achievable because it depends on everything being perfect. The ideal vision can be helpful…