1: On June 14th, Hitler’s Nazi troops marched into Paris. As France fell to Germany, “it was overrun not just by tanks but by the fear of its own leaders who quietly and quickly negotiated a surrender with the worst aggressor in modern history,” writes Ryan Holiday in Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave.
While France was surrendering, French General Charles De Gaulle boarded a small plane to … continue reading
In many organizations, leaders are expected to motivate people. To keep associates happy and engaged. To improve the morale of their team.
Our concept of leadership is flawed, Cy Wakeman writes in her book No Ego.
Leaders can’t motivate people, Cy observes. People make their own choices about motivation, accountability, commitment, and happiness.
Great leaders don’t solve the problems for their colleagues.
They also don’t tell, direct, or order people … continue reading
One of the central ideas of Stephen M. L. Covey’s book The Speed of Trust is that to build trust, we must be persons of high character.
But Covey tells us: that’s not enough.
Character is about being virtuous. It’s about cultivating a moral code which we use to make decisions and live life. In Ryan Holliday’s excellent book Stillness is the Way, he writes the Stoics believed that … continue reading
