Serve to Lead® | James Strock | 21st Century Leadership & Sustainability

21st Century Leadership is Servant Leadership.

January 1, 2012 in 21st Century Leadership with 2 Comments

Just One Thing: Do One Thing You Fear

January 30, 2012 in Just One Thing with 0 Comments

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Eleanor Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt and Winston Churchill–among many others–assert the importance of grasping the nettle, doing things one fears.

As an experiment, for the next week, make it a point to do one thing you fear every day.

Geoffrey Perret Speech on Lincoln Leadership

January 29, 2012 in Leadership with 0 Comments

Historian Geoffrey Perret has written fine biographies of Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Douglas MacArthur and John F. Kennedy.

Eleanor Roosevelt: Discuss Ideas, Not Individuals

January 27, 2012 in Leadership with 1 Comment

What are you discussing?

Stephen Miles: Enterprises Can’t be ‘Parasites’

January 25, 2012 in 21st Century Leadership with 0 Comments

Heidrick & Struggles Vice Chairman Stephen Miles discusses, in this brief video, the need for companies to serve a much broader stakeholder group than in the past.

Daniel R. Murphy: A Leader’s Library

January 25, 2012 in Leadership with 0 Comments

Thought & Action can be Sparked by a Book.

Leadership requires continuous learning – this has become axiomatic. There is more than one way to learn-–but none is more powerful than reading good books.

Serve to Lead® Hall of Fame: Apple Unveils Supply Chain Audits

January 24, 2012 in 21st Century Leadership with 0 Comments

Serve to Lead® Hall of Fame

New Apple CEO Tim Cook has broken ground, disclosing internal audits of suppliers.

Environmental, safety and health violations have been found and are being addressed.

Just One Thing: Drop ‘I’ From Your Vocabulary

January 23, 2012 in Just One Thing with 0 Comments

In the coming week, try to make one small change in your communications: remove the personal pronoun, ‘I’ (as well as its baby brothers and sisters, ‘me’ and ‘mine’).

As simple as it seems, this can be challenge. I Many have found this to be the case.

‘The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge’ by Tony Dungy

January 22, 2012 in Personal Development with 0 Comments

Beloved Super Bowl-winning coach Tony Dungy has written a tremendous daily guide for strengthening personal character: The One Year Uncommon Life Daily Challenge.

This is a well-organized, actionable daily manual for living that can be useful to anyone.