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Here's a brief introduction to Karl Bimshas Consulting's Executive Mind Masters group. A new, weekly accountability group for business owners and department heads who manage teams of five or more.

Reflections on Leadership

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Hypocrisy erodes trust and culture when unchecked. Effective leaders confront it strategically by focusing on consequences, setting clear standards, and modeling integrity, rather than ignoring it or resorting to empty accusations.

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Cherry-picking definitions, passages, quotes, statistics, and headlines is cheap and easy. Being thoughtful, thorough, empathetic, and curious is less sexy and more difficult. It takes leadership.

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Clarity of Division Sometimes division is worthwhile, lest you be clumped with the vile. There is yea, and there is nay. The righteous, the depraved. Those who commend, those who condemn. Those who support, those who oppose. Compliance. Resistance. The charitable. The parsimonious. The anti. The anti-anti. Do not be so quick to knock division. Every side assumes history will choose them. No one holds a perfect score. Division with thought— not habit, nor coercion— is discernment. Discernment stills the chants, wards off purity tests, unmasks tribal conformity. It favors the astute, the thoughtful by definition, the caring, and, ultimately, unity. Right and wrong can blur, While good and evil tangle. Fractures do not run evenly: A little from column A, a little from column B, with vast fields of gray between. It is harder to navigate— unless you are clear, and keep your moral compass pointed approximately, toward the correct direction.

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The Reflections on Leadership Podcast

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