Here’s a sure fire way leaders can be certain they continue to experience an exodus: respond inappropriately when people leave.

Leadership may truly trust their people, yet if they aren’t engaged and present the end result will be mistrust.

Choice. No one can make it for you, nor can they take it from you.

Find those who are headed in the same direction as your goals. Connect with them. Accept their guidance. Pass it on.

The travesty of starting at the bottom turned out be a blessing.

Leaders who are successful in 2022 will strengthen their character; they will reinforce and sustain their grit.

The basics of authentic leadership can be acquired by anyone who puts their mind to learning them.

Authentic thought leaders gain perspective from people who think differently, and actively seek out dissenting voices. 

How we say what we say is way more than what we say.

If we cling to human-made rules and policies, we are guaranteed to be wrong at some point.

We all want to change something about ourselves or the world around us; unless we change personal beliefs first, change is impossible.

Putting the customer first and foremost leapfrogs over the ones doing the work to care for the customer.

Authentic leaders choose to seek out good and speak gratitude to those for whom they don’t always feel thankful.

Successful leaders aren’t driven to exhaustion by their calendar or other’s whims and needs.

Authentic leaders see difficulties as part of the long game.

Individuals who compare themselves to others are not fit to be leaders.

Leaders who don’t share their blessings have lost the foundational concept of leadership: being with others.

Unless there is practical self-sacrifice for the good of those for whom we are responsible, we are not leaders.

No authentic leader lacks manners.

Most do not appreciate the fact that real greatness can dispense with outward show.