But, What’s Most Important?

What’s your favorite competency of successful Leaders? Thats the question I seem to receive from those who have begun subscribing to the Rare Leader™ challenge. What’s my favorite? I thought for a minute, not about my personal selection, but more so to...

Duct Tape On The Rear View Mirror

        The handy mans secret weapon… Red Green would say.  He could build, fix, re-fix, and fix again anything, using duct tape as his “secret weapon”.  I’ve become a fan of duct tape as well.  Now, instead of limiting me to furnace grey, it...

Passion is…

Ready, set, go.  Everybody have their list in front of them?  who wants to go first?  Ok, go ahead…define passion.  Hmmm…That’s what I thought.  When you really have to put it down on paper, or describe it to a group, it’s not that...

Give Me The Ball

There’s 10 seconds left in the game.  We’re down by 2 points.  This is the championship.  This is what we have worked so hard all year long to accomplish.  It was our BHAG.  And then, during the timeout, someone speaks up and says it.  He...

Taking Ownership

The Rare Leader™ willingly takes an initiative and acceptance of accountability, using intelligence and an enterprising attitude to figure out “how” to do it without being told.F. John Reh writes in “Take Ownership of Your Job” http://bit.ly/bTecG5 ,...