All in Leadership
A lot of us try to safeguard our future the traditional way: find a good job, work hard for about 40 years and save everything we can for retirement. Yet this way leads to lifelong servitude and there’s no guarantee you’ll end up rich. There’s another way, though: pinpoint a good market niche, work out a business plan and take a few years of effort to build a system that generates income, even when you’re not working.
Adaptive energy is the force that propels you to reach your dreams, pointing you toward the goal line and warning you when you veer off course. It aligns your actions both with the external criteria necessary for success and with your inner values and principles
Companies should be started because the founders want to make meaning, not because they want to make money. Focus on generating cash flow and pursuing unexpected market opportunities, and you can thrive even without external funding.
For successful communication to take place in the time and space allocated for it, we should identify and release any obstacles to listening so that they don’t affect the telling. Let’s explore how first we identify obstacles to listening and then how we release those obstacles.
You are not your job, and you don’t need as much money as you think. You can restart your life by dispensing with all the “stuff’ you don’t need and the relationships that are dragging you down. Living simply will help you open up to and relish a more meaningful life.
The right leadership mindset includes having the intention to lead, being a good listener and being authentic, focused and respectful. Get your outlook right, and you’ll find the other pieces will fall into place.
