A Lasting Leadership Lesson: George Washington's Greatest Leadership Talk
A Lasting Leadership Lesson: George Washington's Greatest Leadership Talk by Brent FilsonPERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 745Summary: The most important victory of the Revolutionary War was not...
A Monster Of A Leadership Challenge: The Creature That Ate Your Career
A Monster Of A Leadership Challenge: The Creature That Ate Your Career
by Brent Filson
In the 1964 movie, "Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster", King Ghidorah was a gigantic, dragon-like creature that came from outer space. It had three heads on long necks, bat-like wings, no arms, and twin tails. It terrorized Tokyo until Godzilla, in a role reversal as protector rather than destroyer, defeated it in a terrible battle and chased it back into outer space.
As a leader, you don't have to...
A Whack Up 'Long Side The Head Of Human Resources: The Leadership Imperative
A Whack Up 'Long Side The Head Of Human Resources: The Leadership Imperative
by: Brent Filson
When we perceive the simple center in the seemingly complex, we can change our world in powerful new ways.
Albert Einstein perceived the simple E=MC2 in the complexities of physical reality and changed the history of the 20th century.
Big Daddy Lipscomb, the Baltimore Colts 300 pound all-pro tackle in the 1960s perceived the simple center of what was perceived to be the complex game of...
DUMP YOUR SPEECHES FOR LEADERSHIP TALKS!
DUMP YOUR SPEECHES FOR LEADERSHIP TALKS! by Brent Filsonattribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 600. Summary: Most leaders communicate through speeches and presentations. But there is a much more effective means of communication: that's The Leadership Talk. The Leadership Talk not only communicates...
Einstein, The Universe, and Leadership
Einstein, The Universe, and Leadership
by: Brent Filson
Every since serving a hitch in the military, I have been nagged by the question thats been hanging around leadership since time immemorial: How can some leaders persuade people to believe in them and follow them and other leaders cant? But it wasnt the military that provided me with a framework to answer that question. It was Albert Einstein and his quest for the unified field theory of the universe.
Einstein is well known for his...
Get Out Of The Communication Stone Age: Give Leadership Talks
Get Out Of The Communication Stone Age: Give Leadership Talks
By Brent Filson
160 years ago, the newly invented electric telegraph carried the first news message. The message zipped 40 miles in a flash over wires from Baltimore to Washington, D.C.
The public was dazzled -- except Henry David Thoreau. He wrote: "We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate."
Today, we live in a...
Here's The REAL Reason Bush Won: The Dark Night Of The Leadership Soul
Here's The REAL Reason Bush Won: The Dark Night Of The Leadership Soul
by: Brent Filson
George Bush won the election because he was finally able to break out of the presidential bubble and give "leadership talks" on a consistent basis.
But to do it, he had to face the dark night of his leadership soul. And this is a lesson for ALL leaders.
The presidential bubble is that physical and psychological insulation that descends upon the president of the United States the moment he's sworn...
How To Use A Powerful Leadership Tool To Step Up Sales Results
How To Use A Powerful Leadership Tool To Step Up Sales Results by Brent FilsonPERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 995========================================Summary: Brent Filson observes that sales...
Leadership Development and Jumping Out of Airships
Leadership Development and Jumping Out of Airships
by: Brent Filson
A German silent film melodrama depicts an airship bombing London during World War I. Lit up by searchlights and strafed by fighters, the crippled airship loses altitude as the captain frantically jettisons dispensable gear to lighten weight. Eventually, the only weight left is human. So the captain orders members of the crew overboard. A grisly scene unfolds as the airmen, one by one, without parachutes, step up to the...
Leading By Persuading People They Don't Have To ... They GET TO.
Leading By Persuading People They Don't Have To ... They GET TO.
by Brent Filson
Physicists theorize that the universe is composed of only 20 percent visible matter and 80 percent dark matter. Dark matter refers to hypothetical matter particles, of unknown composition, that do not emit or reflect enough electromagnetic radiation to be detected directly, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter such as stars and galaxies.
When I read about dark...
Make The Elephant Jump -- Leading With A Kind Heart
Make The Elephant Jump -- Leading With A Kind Heart
by Brent Filson
Leadership is not about getting people to do what they want. If they did what they want, you wouldn't be needed as a leader. Instead, leadership is about getting people to do what they don't want to do (or don't think they can do) and be ardently committed to doing it.
This paradox lies at the heart of all great leadership.
Unlike management, which involves simply the care and feeding of your organizational...
New Leadership For A New War
New Leadership For A New War by Brent FilsonPERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 1465===========================================Summary: The author observes that the war on terror calls for a new kind...
On St. Valentine's Day, Or Any Romantic Interlude, Woo Your Sweetheart With Chocolates, Roses ... AND A Leadership Talk
On St. Valentine's Day, Or Any Romantic Interlude, Woo Your Sweetheart With Chocolates, Roses ... AND A Leadership Talk by Brent FilsonPERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 415Summary: Leadership...
Ringing Doorbells Without Howitzers
Ringing Doorbells Without Howitzers by Brent FilsonPERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 700===========================================Summary: Reducing costs through wholesale layoffs may provide quick...
The "Greatest" Leaders Are Often The Worst Leaders
The "Greatest" Leaders Are Often The Worst Leaders
by: Brent Filson
It's a common occurrence, a CEO leads a company to record earnings, retires and in months, those once high-flying earnings are dropping like shot ducks.
Observers blame the new leadership team. But most likely the observers are wrong. It's not just the new leaders who are screwing up. Instead, it was most likely the former CEO. Yes, the former, supposedly great CEO. Look to him for what went wrong and what went wrong...
The End Of Marketing
The End Of Marketing by Brent FilsonPERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 965 words===========================================Summary: Traditional marketing is overloaded with analytical methodologies...
Turn Your Speech Into A Leadership Talk
Turn Your Speech Into A Leadership Talk by Brent FilsonPERMISSION TO REPUBLISH: This article may be republished in newsletters and on web sites provided attribution is provided to the author, and it appears with the included copyright, resource box and live web site link. Email notice of intent to publish is appreciated but not required: mail to: brent@actionleadership.comWord count: 1949Summary: Most leaders are sabotaging their careers because they are giving presentations and speeches...
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