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October 2012

October 30, 2012

Leadership is About Dealing With Challenges

Leadership is about dealing with challenges. Some challenges are nearly overwhelming, like a hurricane hundreds...

October 25, 2012

Risk Appreciation

I love a good story. The stories I love the most are about security and...

October 23, 2012

Leadership is About Learning

I used to believe that knowing was much more important than learning, especially for a...

October 17, 2012

Each Step Can Be a Challenge

Each of us is making a pilgrimage, and each day is a pilgrimage within our...

October 16, 2012

Guest Post: Leading with Love

Jennifer Alhasa is a great friend. She is strong and courageous, and appreciates the value...

October 11, 2012

Deeper, Under the Surface

I work with people who get to a point in their lives where they ask...

October 09, 2012

Leadership is About Balance

Leadership is about finding your balance. It is more than sorting through all the things...

October 02, 2012

Leadership is an Adventure

Leadership is an adventure. We think of an adventure as an experience that tests us,...

September 2012

September 29, 2012

LinkedIn or Left Out?

I am fairly adept at social networking. I have friends on Facebook, and followers on...

September 27, 2012

Contemplative Football

I have watched professional football for longer than I can remember, for my whole life....

September 25, 2012

Leadership Adapts to Seasonal Changes

Leadership adapts to seasonal changes. I am not saying that leadership has no direction. Effective...

September 18, 2012

Leadership is Coloring Outside the Lines

Leaders recognize that it is the picture that is important, not the lines. Leaders learn...

September 11, 2012

Leadership is Changing Reality

Leadership is changing reality. Leaders help us see things in new ways. When we perceive...

September 04, 2012

Leadership Grows in the Everyday

Leadership grows in the everyday. It is easy for some people to get caught up...

August 2012

August 29, 2012

Listening to Silence

Each summer, at the end of August, I spend some time at New Camaldoli Hermitage...

August 28, 2012

Leadership is Healthy

Leadership is healthy. Your true leadership grows out of recognizing and appreciating your true self....

August 21, 2012

Leadership is Learning to Laugh

There is power in laughing. Laughter brings people together by reminding us that we share...

August 15, 2012

Why the Strategic Monk?

People ask quite a few questions about the name Strategic Monk. Where did you get...

August 14, 2012

Leadership is Meeting New Challenges: 3 Levels

Leadership is not boring. Some people think that leadership is all about predictability; doing what...

August 07, 2012

Leadership is Contagious: 3 Brief Insights

Leadership is contagious. We do not become leaders by reading about leadership. We do not...

August 01, 2012

Exploring & Explaining

We are explorers. Our earliest experiences as young children are exploring what is around us,...

July 2012

July 31, 2012

Leadership is Sharing Who You Are

Leadership is not about becoming someone else; leadership is sharing who you are. People tend...

July 26, 2012

Hand Crafted

I believe in things that are hand crafted. I value the skill and time it...

July 24, 2012

StrategicMonk Interview: Jen Olney

1. When did you first recognize that you were a leader? Early in my childhood...

July 19, 2012

Why Leadership?

Some people hear about what I do or see that my website says Leadership, Pilgrimage, Revelry and...

July 12, 2012

StrategicMonk Interview: Jared Callahan: Part Two

I wanted to learn more about my friend Jared Callahan, who is a youth pastor...

July 10, 2012

Leadership is Not Predictable

Leadership is not predictable. Some of the people who work with me do not see...

July 03, 2012

Leadership Includes Management

I hear a lot about the differences between leadership and management. Some people perceive management...

June 2012

June 30, 2012

Halfway to Next Year

The first six months of this year end tonight. We are halfway to next year....

June 26, 2012

Leadership is About Recognizing that You Are a Leader

Leadership is about recognizing that you are a leader. I work with people who have...