Dave Anderson | Tag Archive | Leaders of Character
Question 1: Are sheep without a shepherd still sheep? Answer: Yes.
Question 2: Is a shepherd without sheep still a shepherd? Answer: No.
A shepherd without sheep is just a hygienically challenged man walking the countryside with a stick in his hands.
Leaders: It is the people that make you a leader not the title!
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“This is one of those times when being a leader sucks.” It was all I could really say to this young leader I was recently coaching. She knew what she had to do and that it was not going to be easy or comfortable.
Hard decisions are part of being a leader. Whether we are a CEO, a middle manager, or a front line employee – Whether we are a coach, a team captain, or an underclassman – Whether we are a husband, a mother, or a child. When it is time to step up and lead, no matter our title, being a leader can really suck.
But if I consider myself a Leader of Character, I must be willing to make those tough decisions even if I do not like making them. Continue Reading…
Integrity: Doing what is good, right, and proper, even at personal cost. That is the definition my father General James L. Anderson taught me years ago.
I had the opportunity to do a talk with my father on the topic of Courage in business. The Lesson: You can’t have Integrity without having Courage.
This video is a short segment of that talk where we focus on the topic of Integrity and what it means to be a person of Integrity.
Question:
What are you willing to sacrifice in order to be a person of Integrity?
Dave Anderson is coauthor of Becoming a Leader of Character – Six Habits that Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home with his father General James L. Anderson (USA Retired).
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You have to DO what you want to BE! If you want to BE a Leader of Character, you have to DO what Leaders of Character DO!
Today’s video was a short talk given to over 800 people at this year’s Leadercast event.
Question:
What do you need to start DOing to BE the Leader of Character you were designed to BE?
Dave Anderson is author of Becoming a Leader of Character – Six Habits that Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home.
You can find Becoming a Leader of Character on Amazon by clicking here:
bit.ly/LOCBook.
You can also find Becoming a Leader of Character at Barnes and Noble, Books-a-Million and other retailers.
Honesty or Integrity? Are they the same thing? Is one more important than the other? Many people use the terms interchangeably confusing one with the other.
You can be an honest person and have questionable Integrity. Honesty is a part of Integrity, but they are not the same thing. Continue Reading…
I don’t have to convince many people that leadership or the lack of good leadership is plaguing our culture. Watch politics, read business journals, or see the breakdown of the family unit and it is obvious.
But what is the answer? There is more to improving as a leader than reading a book or going to a seminar. Today’s video outlines a plan for all of us, no matter where we are leading. The cure is up to us – and that cure is CHARACTER!
The Bottom Line:
Our culture needs more Leaders of Character. What we are doing to develop leaders in business, academia and in homes must change it’s focus.
To this point most of the focus has been on developing knowledge and competencies. The majority of the books, classes and seminars focus on management skills when the majority of our leadership woes can be related back to the root issue of CHARACTER.
As a Character Evangelist (Evangelist = Passionate Proclaimer) I am trying to change that focus. This video is just one step in my mission to develop leaders who understand that their CHARACTER is THE #1 Leadership Tool they must develop.
As of today, July 26th 2016 Becoming a Leader of Charcter – Six Habits that Make or Break a Leader at Work and at Home is available at:
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There is a leadership crisis in our culture. Politics. Business. Sports. Families. Wherever you turn the results of this crisis are evident.
Some of the symptoms are political stalemate, lack of trust, dysfunctional teams, cheating in athletics or broken homes. There are a lot of approaches to fixing these symptoms. But the problem is we are treating a PNEUMONIA patient with cough medicine! Continue Reading…
Positivity or negativity? It boils down to making a choice. The attitudes we display go a long way in determining what type of leader we are and how many followers we have.
Do we choose our attitudes or do we let our circumstances or other people choose them for us? Do we choose to focus on others or on ourselves? Do we choose to look for solutions or look problems? Our attitudes have been and always will be a matter of choice. Continue Reading…
Unreliability or Duty? It’s a choice. Do we choose to do what needs to be done, or just what we want to do? Do we choose to follow through on all our commitments or flake out? Do we choose to give our best in all areas of our jobs, or just the part we really enjoy?
The business world may call this accountability. But I use the term Duty, as do our heroes who serve in the military. Understanding what our Duty is does not have to be complicated – especially as a leader. Continue Reading…
Dave Anderson interviews Social Selling Evangelist Mario Martinez Jr. Show #2 – Topic: Making Your Brand Not Suck. (30 minutes)
Social Selling Evangelist and Keynote speaker Mario Martinez of M3Jr Growth Strategies. Learn more at www.m3jr.com.
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