Category: Leadership Qualities

Happy Birthday, Mom

Today is Mom’s birthday.  Growing up, she was a “stay-at-home” Mom, which is really better described by Mary Kay Ash’s quote above…a wife, mother, homemaker, chauffer, cook, psychologist, et cetera!

Mom always used Mary Kay cosmetics…and still does.  Above, she is pictured at Christmas with a Mary Kay product.  I appreciated her presence in my formative years, as she provided consistent encouragement and support…and still does.

Thank you, Mom, for always being there.  May this post of Mary Kay Ash’s book on People Management bring special honor to you today.

Click here for a summary of Mary Kay on People Management

Be Mean About the Vision: Preserving and Protecting What Matters

With this month’s focus on Planning the Future, a critical piece is Vision.  At work, we’ve focused a lot on understanding organization purpose and leveraged Simon Sinek’s famous TED Talk on “Start With Why.”

As Dr. Ed Stetzer of Lifeway Research put it, “Casting vision is one thing, but vision without the ability to back it up ultimately becomes a pipe dream.”

Vision gathers people together for a common purpose so they might be focused on something greater than themselves.  Shawn Lovejoy has identified one of the biggest challenges any leader faces: how to gather people around a vision and stay true to that vision.

Click here for my summary of Lovejoy’s Be Mean About the Vision: Preserving and Protecting What Matters