Each week, I compile the resources related to leadership, personal growth, and professional development that I shared on social media the prior week, with the accompanying quotations.
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The Center for Leadership Studies:
“Why More Employees Are Seeking a Sense of Purpose in the Workplace” (12-9-25).
“Analyze performance to determine what an employee does well, and ask them what they enjoy. Leaders who assign tasks to match strengths and interests can inspire individuals to feel more purpose in their work.”
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Paul McCarthy:
“The Leadership Qualities We Need Most Are the Hardest to Measure” (6-18-26).
“Sometimes the issue isn’t whether leaders possess future-ready qualities. Sometimes the issue is whether the organization enables or suppresses them.
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• What happens when people ask difficult questions?
• What happens when leaders challenge accepted wisdom?
• What happens when someone surfaces uncomfortable truths?
• What happens when emerging leaders think differently?”
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John Spence:
“Leadership Is Stewardship” (6-24-26).
“A steward is someone who has been entrusted with something valuable and accepts responsibility for protecting it, improving it, and leaving it stronger than they found it. Most people think of stewardship in terms of money, property, or other assets. I believe the idea applies equally well to leadership.”
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Julio M. Ottino, Kellogg Insight:
“When the Fog Rolls In, Do Leaders Need a Map or a Compass?”
(6-1-26).
“[B]eing a leader adept at ‘compass’ navigation is about more than intuition or charisma. It is about having a framework grounded in values, judgment, and an understanding that in open, evolving systems, the future cannot be fully mapped when optimization and prediction become insufficient.”
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Karin Hurt and David Dye:
“Leadership Presence: The Connection Habit That Helps Your Team Do Better Work” (6-22-26).
“Presence doesn’t mean you have every answer. It means you are available to the conversation in front of you. You listen for what is said, what is underneath it, and what the team needs next.
That’s often where the leadership work begins.”
