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Personal Purpose in Action: Scott MacLellan
A couple of weeks ago I shared with you the importance of knowing WHY you work and how you can put into words your purpose of leadership. While we’ve tried to make the process simple, knowing where to...
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Life Lessons
The first step in finding your personal purpose for work and life is to look back over the experiences of your life thus far. If we rush forward, without time for reflection on what we have learned so...
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Your Values: Do they come to work?
The second step in the discovery of your personal purpose is determining the top priority values that you want to be evident in your life at work. All of us have values that are important to us. And if...
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Defining Your Personal Purpose for Work
This week I had a wonderful conversation with a young man named James at Regent University. He came up to talk to me at the end of my teaching on the Purpose of Leadership. He explained to me that he...
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Take Action on Your Personal Purpose
One of my many shortcomings is that I hate exercise. I’ve never experienced that adrelin rush thing that athlete’s talk about. For me, exercise is just sweat and muscle aches, and I don’t enjoy either...
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Put Your Purpose to the Test
When my daughter was getting ready to go to college, my husband gave her this book to read: How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country’s Top Students by Cal Newport. Among...
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Are You An Inspiring Role Model?
In my work, I often have opportunities to meet great leaders and to learn from their wise counsel. Recently, I met such a leader and he was kind enough to spend an hour with me sharing his observations...
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Top 10 Things I Love about You
Dear favorite employee, When I think of you, I wish that every employee in our company had your traits. I can only imagine what our business results would be if they did. To celebrate the way that you...
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In Honor of My Favorite Boss
Dear Favorite Boss, Looking back over the years, it is so easy to see why you were my favorite boss. But at the time, I didn’t have enough life experience to know just how special you were. Please...
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Career Path? Life Path?
We often gain insight from questions we are asked. Particularly when the questions are on topics we were not thinking about at the time. Recently, I have been asked twice to describe my career path to...
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The Purpose of Mentors
While speaking on a panel at the Women’s Foodservice Forum a few years ago, I was asked if mentors had played a large role in my development of a leader. I struggled with the answer because, honestly,...
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Sacrifice or Pleasure?
My observation is that sacrifice is not a popular notion in our culture. It has bad implications. When you sacrifice, you lose something, you give something up. It might be hard, uncomfortable, even...
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Tips of the Leadership Trade
This fall, I will have the opportunity to speak at the Gwinnett Leadership Forum, on September 5, 2013. The Leadership Forum is all about helping local leaders connect to their highest potential – a...
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Reflection Required
Monday was my first day back after a four day vacation. I must confess, I am not good at taking vacations. For the first two days I didn’t even know I was on vacation. I kept answering emails, taking...
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Leaders: You Will Have Critics
On Friday afternoon, I taught a workshop on the Purpose of Leadership at the national convention of the business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi. The audience was primarily college campus leaders of the...
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Bad Boss Reality
Last week I had the opportunity to write as a featured blogger for Robert K. Greenleaf’s Center for Servant Leadership. Below is the article I shared. To read the original posting, visit the Center for...
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Leaders: Stop. Look. Celebrate!
Last week our leadership team toured six new restaurants in Indianapolis. The highlight of the trip was the opportunity to recognize the outstanding contributions of our restaurant team members. We...
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Labor Day Leadership Lessons
Tens of thousands of marchers converged on Washington, D.C. five days ago to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I have a dream” speech. The celebration of King’s...
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Leaders are Teachers
Today I share with you a blog post from Kevin Eikenberry titled Seven Lessons Leaders Can Learn from Great Teachers. I’ve always believed that the best leaders are great teachers. Leaders who explain,...
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Leader as Student
Last week, I shared with you the traits of the leader as teacher. This week we’ll examine the leader as a student … When our daughters left to go to college, my husband would write them a letter to...
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