Everybody Follows Somebody. It's a fact of life. Everybody follows somebody. We are all followers, but I believe that we are also all leaders. We each have a personal and professional call to leadership. Everyone will find yourself leading others. You'll be leading your family, friends, peer group or your "tribe." You will be leading others in your community, organizations, at work and in your career as you progress towards success. You will be leading others. Leaders and followers are … [Read more...]

It's OK to be crappy. It's not OK to fail. Wait, hear me out. I'm not against learning from failure. Much has been said about our ability to learn from failure. But I think failure has been overated lately, and educators often receive heavy criticism for not allowing students to fail at stuff. We've all heard the quotes that are supposed to make us feel better about failure. "You learn more from your failures than your successes." "Better to have failed than not have tried." "Success is … [Read more...]

Rocky's Knockout One Liner Every Student Needs. I'm a Rocky fan and the newest movie in the Rocky Balboa series "Creed" staring Sylvester Stallone, comes out this fall. I'll admit to being very excited about this film. Anyone familiar with this iconic film series will also recognize the films narrative. We'll see the underdog fighting for their shot at greatness, if only he can find within himself the heart, strength, and resilience to overcome any adversity, and there are many to … [Read more...]

Students that desire to be successful need to nurture their leadership potential. They must develop self-leadership skills. We have an obsession with leadership. Just search Amazon for books on leadership and you'll find nearly 180,000 individual books on the subject. Corporations spend billions of dollar annually training their current employees on leadership skills. Virtually every high school has a leadership program. Universities all have leadership courses and programs. Many of these … [Read more...]