“Experience often deeply embeds the assumptions that need to be questioned in the first place. When you have a lot of experience with something, you don’t notice the things that are new

Are you holding growth back? What are you missing?

Growth

about it. You don’t notice the idiosyncrasies that need to be tweaked. You don’t notice where the gaps are, what’s missing, what’s not really working.”

Chris Sacca in Tim Ferriss’s, Tools of Titans

“Exemplary leaders don’t impose their visions of the future on people; They awaken dreams, breathe life into them, and around the belief that people can achieve something grand.”

What dreams are you awakening?

Vision

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, The Leadership Challenge

“Visions are about hopes, dreams and aspirations. They’re about the strong desire to achieve something beyond good, something great and extraordinary.

What do you see that transcends ordinary?

Vision

They’re ambitious. They’re expressions of optimism.”

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, The Leadership Challenge

“The single most important thing you can do to help ensure your future success, is to find someone who has an interest in your development.”

Who is interested in your leadership development?

Leadership Development

Brandon Busteed in James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner’s Learning Leadership. See Busteed’s article “The Two Most Important Questions for Graduates.”

“Visions of the future are not predictions. They are creations.”

Is your vision compelling?

Vision

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Learning Leadership

“The skill set at which the vast majority of leaders need to become significantly more capable of is inspiring a shared vision.”

What is your vision? How often are you sharing it with your coworkers?

Leadership, Vision

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Learning Leadership

“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think, we become.”

Do you have a growth mindset?

Mindset

The Buddha in James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner's, Learning Leadership

“Our studies find that how one’s leader behaves explains more than any other variable about why people feel engaged or not in their workplace.”

What are you doing to engage your coworkers?

Leadership

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Learning Leadership

“To become a better leader than you are right now, the first fundamental thing you have to do is to believe you can be a better leader and that you can learn to improve your leadership skills and abilities.”

What leadership skills are you working on right now?

Leadership

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Learning Leadership

“Inspiring leadership speaks to people’s need to have meaning and purpose in their lives.”

Are you in tune with your coworker's meaning and purpose needs?

Leadership

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Learning Leadership

“…keep in mind that leadership is also an art, and just as with any other art form – whether it’s painting, playing music, dancing, acting, or writing – leadership is a means of personal expression.

Are you channeling your own voice or someone else's?

Leadership

To become an exemplary leader, you have to learn to express yourself in ways that are uniquely your own.”

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Learning Leadership

“Vision is a together kind of thing. If your dream doesn’t require a team, chances are good you’re dreaming too small.”

Who is on your team? Who do you need on your team?

Vision

Michael Hyatt, The Vision Driven Leader

“Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing significant to say.”

Who have you listened to lately?

Leadership

Andy Stanley in Michael Hyatt’s, The Vision Driven Leader

“Leadership is not a talent that you have or don’t have. In fact, it is not a talent but an observable, learnable set of skills and abilities.”

What's your next scheduled leadership learning event? What's your next leadership book to read?

Leadership

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, Learning Leadership

“Who do you think of when you hear the word ‘successful’?”

Is your ladder leaning against the right building?

Growth

“I don’t picture anybody. I picture the word ‘redefine.’ The word ‘successful’ or ‘success’ has been such a dangerous word in my research. My answer is: Be clear that your ladder is leaning against the right building.”

Brené Brown in Tim Ferriss’s, Tools of Titans

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