Reflections on Leadership

Pick your obsessions and addictions carefully and deliberately, or one will be assigned to you. Success and failure have similar traits. The unglamorous, seemingly insignificant thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and choices that you make every day predict your future. The habits and routines you bemoan will either lift you up or drag you down. What you tolerate you invite to stay. Everyone has a passion, some are constructive and affirming, others are destructive and negating. Passivity won't exempt you from participating, it only exempts you from success.

About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

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Shame holds you back. Empathy pulls you forward. Look, the past is in the past. Maybe you made bad decisions. Maybe you found yourself paying the price for someone else's poor judgment. Maybe you were preyed upon, taken advantage of, or maybe circumstances just haven't been favorable. Okay. Shed the shame. Transform it into empathy. You've got experience now. You've been trapped in the deep dark hole and have dug, or are digging yourself out. You now know the way to the light just as well or better than those behind you. Lend your hand and pull them up with you.

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About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

Leadership Goal-Setting Questions => Questions

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You don't need permission to lead.

You need a purpose.

Don't wait to be anointed or appointed by someone else — lead from where you are, today.

Do not lead solely for money, or fame, grandeur, or power.

Lead for those who need you in the darker hours.

Lead for those who've not yet found their voice, the multitudes who've lost their choice.

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About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

Leadership Goal-Setting Questions => Questions

More resources => LearnFromKarl.com

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It's okay to oscillate in your life and with your leadership. In fact, I'd encourage you to do so. Regularly scan your surroundings and your interests, back and forth; taking note of changes in the landscape, people's beliefs, and your opinion. This predictability is a strength.

To vacillate, however, is a weakness.  Churning like a whirling dervish, from one pursuit to another, either in conversation or in action, is haphazard.

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About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

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What if you suspended your outrage and replaced it with a thirst for knowledge? Are you humble enough to say, “You haven’t convinced me yet, tell me more.”

Could you ask questions like, “What makes you think that,” or, “how did you arrive at that conclusion?”

Imagine putting yourself in their shoes in a genuine attempt to learn their motivation for spouting off the very thing you detest. What could you learn if you were quiet long enough to listen?

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About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

More resources => LearnFromKarl.com

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Disposable Journal: The Disposable Journal is a booklet-sized journal with a week’s worth of daily prompts, designed for you to take on your biggest challenges. Portable. Insightful. Personal. And Disposable => www.disposablejournal.com

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Never want to be disappointed? Have low expectations. You exert minimal effort and plod through life. You don't expect much; you don't get much. It's a cynical philosophy way too many people adopt because it's easier. It's also crappy advice lousy leaders tend to give others.

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About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

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As an effective leader, you put yourself out there. You take the heat that others throw your way because you know it comes with the territory. It's inevitable, as a leader, you will receive criticism. Never allow that reality to keep you from leading well. Sometimes the critiques will come from your rivals, sometimes your friends, and often from other leaders who are attempting to keep you at bay by outdated means.

Leading is a teaching profession, and in this episode are real-life examples of contempt-filled words spewed at leaders from across rooms or whispered into their ear. It may open your eyes, or perhaps you'll nod your head in agreement. The suggested responses to each statement are an attempt to provide a cathartic if not helpful retort to keep in mind, or under your breath, the next time you come across unsupportive people.

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About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

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If your organization doesn’t have a plan to dig deeper and also measure meaningful results; like how many lives it will make better, jobs it will create, communities it will strengthen, or families it will serve, you may want to review your vision, values, and goals.

Can you suppress the desire to pass costs, burden, or blame on your end-user, client, consumer, audience, patient, or citizen, and instead improve your supply chain?

Each day you have an opportunity to reduce the size of your ego and realign your focus. Place it on the number or size of problems solved, crises averted, lives saved, children fed and educated, elders respected and cared for or other similar causes. If you’re courageous and smart, you can do that profitably. Do it well enough, and the number of zeros on the balance sheet will grow through fulfilled needs, not insatiable greed.

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About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

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Are you in a rut, feeling stuck or aimless? Then you probably need to do the opposite of what you've been doing. Prepare and practice by doing the opposite of what you normally do for a series of small, seemingly insignificant things each day.

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About Reflections on Leadership:

Leadership advisor, writer, and no BS accountability partner, Karl Bimshas, shares quick reflections on leadership, and interviews other busy professionals, to challenge your perspective, provide inspiration, and give insights to help you manage better and lead well.

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In this episode, Rachel Larraine Crawford. Rachel is an Interior Designer who specializes in creating environments where people thrive, physically, and spiritually.

In our conversation, Rachel shares her thoughts on leading by taking action, how collaboration and learning new skills fuels her creativity, and the value of connecting with nature, centering yourself and listening to your gut.

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Leadership Advisor, Karl Bimshas speaks with busy professionals in various stages of their career, and along different paths of their leadership journey on the “Leadership Spotlight.”

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