July 4th is referred to as Independence Day in the United States. Designated as a national holiday in America, July 4th has devolved into little more than the national embarrassingly-cheesy Boston, MA and Washington, DC song-and-dance performances followed by admittedly-beautiful fireworks displays, as well as an excuse for individuals to have a weekend to play with fireworks. Read the rest of this entry »
Quintessential Leader Lessons from July 4th in America
Posted: July 4, 2016 in Quintessential Leader InsightsTags: actions, ideal, Independence Day, July 4th, quintessential leadership, reality, U.S. Declaration of Independence, words
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The Unquintessential Leadership Trait of Self-Promotion
Posted: June 21, 2016 in Examples and Analyses of Lack of Leadership and Unquintessential LeadershipTags: arrogance, boasting, bragging, defensiveness, destroying good will, destroying morale, destroying teams, humility, insecurity, narcissism, needy, ostentation, pretension, pride, self-absorbing, self-promotion, showiness, showing off, unquintessential leadership, vanity
Self-promotion is anything that we do or say about ourselves and our lives that is intended to draw attention to ourselves and to make people believe that we are important. Self-promotion is very much a symptom of narcissism and self-absorption, but it is also a symptom of insecurity and neediness.
Self-promotion is all around us. We are bombarded with it constantly. Technology – cable, satellite, internet, and social media – has not only enabled self-promotion, but also rabidly encourages it. Read the rest of this entry »
Father’s Day 2016: My Dad Was My Human Role Model for Quintessential Leadership
Posted: June 16, 2016 in Examples and Analyses of Quintessential Leadership, Qualities of a Quintessential Leader, Quintessential Leadership, Quintessential Leadership is an ArtTags: arrogance, character, daddy, disrespect, Father's Day 2016, humility, irresponsibility, Ned Moses Ross, pride, quintessential leader, respect, social media, trust, trustworthy
The first – and one of less than a handful of people whose lives have intersected with mine in which I’ve seen an unwavering commitment to quintessential leadership – quintessential leader in my life was my dad, Dr. Ned Moses Ross. He modeled quintessential leadership in everything he was, he did, and he said. Read the rest of this entry »
Quintessential Leader Basics: Determining, Understanding, Establishing and Pursuing Your Priority
Posted: June 5, 2016 in Practical Quintessential LeadershipTags: Commitment, determination, distractions, endurance, establishment, illusions, obstacles, priority, quintessential leader, understanding
Each of us has a priority in life. We may not even be aware of what our priority is because it is a subconscious choice we’ve made. It may be a priority that we didn’t choose, but instead is just simply the result of following, right or wrong, somebody else’s example and/or definition of what our priority should be.
However, determining, understanding, establishing, and pursuing the priority of our life should not be left to our subconscious nor should it be put in the hands of other people to determine or model. Read the rest of this entry »
What We’ve Got Here Is Failure To Communicate
Posted: May 27, 2016 in Quintessential Leader BasicsTags: additions, clarity, clear, communication, context, honesty, precision, projection, quintessential leadership, straightforward, subtractions, vagueness
In life and in leadership, even among quintessential leaders, many of the upsets, mishaps, implosions, and irreparable fissures that we experience are begun and ended by communication.
Communication is perhaps the one thing we all struggle – and I do hope that we, at least as quintessential leaders, do struggle, because this means thinking before we speak or write, choosing our words carefully before we speak or write them to avoid misunderstanding and to exactly convey our exact meaning – mightily with at every turn in this thing called life. Read the rest of this entry »
Quintessential Leader Basics: Never Accept That The Way Things Are Is The Way Things Ought To Be
Posted: May 20, 2016 in Quintessential Leader BasicsTags: complacency, critical thinking, dare to do something different, laziness, Leadership, passivity, status quo, that's the way we've always done it, traditions
There is innate wiring in us as a species that makes us tend to be content with the passivity of the status quo.
We humans, by nature, seem to relish the comfortable complacency of simply going with the flow around us, blissfully ignoring whatever we – often detrimentally and falsely – don’t believe has any personal and/or direct impact on us and blindly accepting whatever enables us to stay in our nice, neat tiny-world comfort zones. Read the rest of this entry »
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