Dave Anderson | Tag Archive | Leadership Development

At the Refresh Leadership Live conference (Twitter: #refreshleadership) I went to recently, Dr. Bertrice Berry read a poem with a line in it that said:  “You ain’t free to do what you want to do.  You are free to what you’re meant to do.”

These days I feel free because I believe I am doing what I am meant to do.  I am building leaders.  In fact I have been building leaders for a long time.  I just needed to recognize that is what I am meant to do. Continue Reading…

I was caught in the trap of my own making.  I watched my company cut leadership training from its training curriculum in the early 2000’s.  As the years went on, I began to bark about this lack of training for leaders.  I believe that an organization that does not develop its next generation of leaders begins to stagnate and eventually staggers.

Then it hit me, complaining is not leading.  I had complained for too long. Continue Reading…