High Performance Leadership

When you set your plans to achieve a goal, do you factor in the unknown? The unexpected is part of every goal calculation. How will other people react? What if your goal changes relevance just as you're able to finish it? What if you change your mind (or your heart?) The design for your plan to achieve a goal should factor in the unknown. -- doug smith

Do you know anyone who makes everything more dramatic than it needs to be? The argument, the debate, the decision, the disappointment -- all become episodes of an opera-ish act. It wears us down all designed to get the drama-demon what they want. Or is it? Could it also be an uncovered need? Could it also be a cry for help that is clumsy yet genuine? How can we know? How can a leader ever know? We can stay curious. We can question with the idea of learning, of opening up possibilities, of staying genuinely curious as if we don't know the answer -- because we probably don't. Drama is a choice among many possibilities. Our response is also a choice. -- doug smith

  Others might fear your creativity, but you don't need to. Stay courageous, stay creative, stay compassionate, stay clear. Sing your song no matter who listens! -- doug smith