Every leader struggles with gaining and maintaining alignment. Alignment with their basic elements of leadership.

Every leader faces restraining forces, opposition, and challenges.

These cause us to sometimes to behave and act contrary to our mission, vision and values, our resolutions and our intentions. 

They then become habits.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. John Wooden.

Changing and growing is what makes you win.

 Very few leaders can possibly be content with the status quo if they are regularly getting a leadership tune-up and assessment. 

Don’t fool yourself; having a strategy map is not the same as having a strategy. Joroen De Flander

"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, ..." Colin Powell

Howard Schultz said:

I think the currency of leadership is transparency. You’ve got to be truthful.

Effectiveness is no longer optional. The call and need for a new era is for greatness. Stephen Covey

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength.

Where there’s smoke there’s a fire!