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In a comment on my post “The Little Things are the BIG Things”, Gordon brought up the topic of attention and said that “attention is the currency of the universe.” I very much agree with this, in fact to me attention should be the number one tool we have in our leadership toolbox and is the absolute key to Reflection Leadership. But this is nothing new. Tim Enalls’ post of Napoleon Hill’s 17 Principles of Success, lists number 11 as “controlled attention”. The idea being that what we focus our mind on we have the [...]
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This is Part 6 in a series of articles that introduce the main ideas about Reflection Leadership.
Leaders have a responsibility to not only pay attention to those things that are happening within the organization but also those things that are happening outside of the control of the organization. What happens outside of the organization helps to shape the activities inside of the organization.
As leaders, when we are able to look outside of the organization, we’re able to scan the environment in which we operate for various threats and opportunities. Our ability to recognize the importance [...]
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This is Part 5 in a series of articles that introduce the main ideas about Reflection Leadership.
Up until now as I’ve described the parts of Reflection Leadership I’ve mostly focused on the leader’s reflection of interactions with others. Systems Reflection steps beyond interactions with individuals and looks at organizational issues. Part of the role of the leader is to make sure that systems are in place to support what needs to be accomplished by the organization. This means that the systems in place should support rather than constrict both recognition of the vision and it’s [...]
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This is Part 4 in a series of articles that introduce the main ideas about Reflection Leadership.
Since we know that leadership is about leading others, when we talk about leadership we tend to focus on others: how do we develop them, how do we motivate them, etc. But effective leadership needs to be about more than just personnel work. Leaders are expected (and frankly should be required) to have a vision. This is true of leaders in all levels of the organization. The size and scope of the leader’s vision should be relative to the [...]
