Disdain: A Lesson From Abraham Lincoln

There’s a lesson from Abraham Lincoln’s legacy to learn. He dared to look down on people and circumstance that discouraged him. He did what a significant number of Americans were against when he declared the emancipation of slaves. He dared to drive change with the heart of uniting a nation and setting precedence for the …

Useless Critique

For anything to become greater, you have to not only identify its limitations. Whether it’s a team, a system or a product, it will never be any greater without it being critically looked at. ‘Critical’ has become a synonym, for mean or nasty.

Make It Obvious

Leadership is not overrated. Don’t believe or even listen to anyone who tells you less. Leaders and the roles they play are necessary. Without leadership in the sense and in practice, a lot falls apart. In fact, organizations start falling apart at leadership level before getting undone anywhere else. This is because leadership holds everything …

Not Sacred

By leading change, you create the future. Thus, leaders are always in the future. They walk in the present yet in the future at the same time. In order to get to the future, systems and many other mechanisms are created. Make no mistake, every system and tool that is developed is not always necessary. …

Really Understanding Change Better; Change Is…

Initiating and leading change is the heart of heretic leadership. Change is most meaningful and significant when it is caused and not imposed by the environment. Great leaders are great friends with change. Change is not competition or a goal but a means that must never be laid down. Change creates and destroys. Worthwhile change …