Your Year of Leading - 2020: Recent Episodes

William Carroll

Bill Carroll takes you onto the path of leading others in the pursuit of intended change in the world. You will experience a series of predictable phases -- phases that will deeply challenge you. You will need to know who you are, and you will also need to know who you must become to endure the internal and external obstacles in front of you, on the path of leading. Tune into 52 weeks of Key Leadership Distinctions with your virtual leadership development coach.

Intended change often warrants multiple attempts

As with all strategies, the Execution is the thing

The Secret to having a great plan? Make your doers planners.

Leaders shouldn't be afraid to be a bit subjective when setting an objective.

Before you launch intended change efforts, know where you are.

When we lead we opt to disclose worlds that would otherwise not be.

The Journey reveals the right v wrong reasons for leading

The Leader Coach wears many hats, for different service reasons

The Result is the Intended Change purpose for Leading

Not just honest, but aligned in thought, word, and deed.

How to avoid "I didn't see that coming!"

You lead as you think -- plain & simple.

You grow as a leader when you learn that you are both cause and effect.

Leaders must learn to have a 'systems perspective' of the circumstances they seek to change.

Leaders must bring forth the change they intend.

Forged in fire, Leaders will be tested.

Forget "Great" when considering Leadership; go for Competence.

The ultimate explanation for the difference between leader and manager

Know how people decide to commit, and leverage it

What's your "Why" for being in business? Is it aligned with your King & Queen?

If we concentrate on our "power-to" we are less exposed to risk when "power-over" comes to the fore.

How to know if people are 'following' your leadership or 'complying' with your authority...

This kind of trust is a gamble, but leaders must take it

Business Leaders look to the world of art to help them be genuine

Genuine leading requires a Follower's assent.

Influence is a Performing Art

The Law of Attraction can only be sustained by alignment of thought, word, and action.

Connecting heart-to-heart trumps connecting mind-to-mind.

Mastery is not about domination, it is about surrendering to an unending process.

Aid executive presence by turning down your transmitter and turning up your receiver: listen.

Leaders must learn to balance their "old" and their "new" intelligences.

Because Memory is a key component of a Leader's observational power, History must be kept clearly in view -- and so that we may generate supportive History as we move forward.

Speak into being the tomorrow that you seek

Leaders may find meaning in their actions.

Founders flounder -- when they do too much.

Leaders are wise to invite their followers to be co-authors of strategy.

A Leader's desire, combined with supporting action plan clarity, amount to Intentional power.

Leaders must be vigilant observers of their automatic responses to things.

Business needs a bit more philosophy. Particularly this kind.

Episode 13 of 52 discusses the important differences between Mission and Vision.

Many businesses are getting the "vision thing' all wrong. Find out how to amend here.

Just after belief in the cycle of leading, and just before intention, we encounter the Will. Will we prevail upon it?

The 10th Episode of the 52-episode series in 2020.

Key vocabulary, of importance at particular points in time, along the Pathworks of your Leadership

Your Year of Leading

Leaders must move nimbly between coordinated action and shared reflection with followers.

We must learn to embrace all manner of input of information -- welcome or otherwise, at all times.

Change & Time are two sides of one coin -- the currency of Leadership

Leading Change in a complex world may require sharing your vision.

What prompts a Leader to begin to generate intended change in the world?

Leaders and Followers Approach one another with their silent Purposes driving the interaction.

At What Point does Life Begin, for a Leader