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The Cranky Middle Manager Show #309 Re-Energizing Your Leadership Attitude Steve Farber
Posted on 03. Jan, 2012 by Wayne in General, Podcast
Today Wayne Turmel talks to Steve Farber about his book The Radical Leap Re-Energized. We also discuss creating calendars, sappy new year’s wishes and learning to love your job again. Seriously.
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Show Notes
0:00 Happy 2012 to you all and welcome to the Cranky Middle Manager Show. Today we’re going to take a look at re-energizing your leadership efforts and learning to love what you do again. To that end we dedicate the show to Luigi Aloyicis Lilius who proves that if he can create a calendar, so can you.
6:28 The quote of the week is from Alfred Lord Tennyson, and it’s a sappy but well-intentioned reminder that it’s all about starting fresh….on any day of the year. Seriously.
7:05 Welcome Steve Farber back to the show. Are you limping across the finish line? Let’s try to Re-Energize our attitudes. We need to occasionally take stock of where we are and what our real goals are. Just to remind you, LEAP stands for Love, Energy, Audacity and Proof.
11:05 Finding the love? Really? This blog post reminds us of how to find out, and remember, what we love about our jobs and our roles as leaders. No mushiness, just facts. Sometimes leading can be exhausting, but energy comes from within. Do you still have passion for your work and love for those you work with?
19:09 Try listing every aspect of your work…what do you like? What do you hate? Usually we’ll find one side outweighs the other. Steve puts on his Cranky hat and asks “can you be successful and still hate your job and what you do?” The answer is yes…. but it sucks.
22:00 Why are so many people fighting for the title of leader if they do it badly and aren’t happy doing it? There’s a difference between positional authority and leadership.
25:00 It might seem silly, but you might want to sign the Commitment to Extreme Leadership. And yes, I’ve signed it. You can take control. Can you control the culture where you work? It’s a decision. Not an easy one, but a decision.
29:00 Steve is doing some interesting things to help the education system, particularly in the US. Do these principles apply only to business, or does it have implications in other areas as well? For every copy of the book that sells, a free copy will go to someone in education. So please buy a book.
Steve’s Resources
His Blog
The book