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Reflections on Leadership — January 2024 Recap

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Reflections on Leadership — January 2024 Recap

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Here’s a recap of the various leadership articles, tips, videos, and merch. Karl Bimshas Consulting shared in January. If you’re a frequent reader, please share your thoughts via the Content Satisfaction Survey. We’d love to know what you think so we can continue to make the content we produce valuable to you.

January Articles

​10 Overlooked Qualities Leaders Must Improve in 2024​
​Effective leadership requires regular self-improvement. While many leaders focus on specific skills or expertise…karlbimshas.medium.com​

​Motivation, Inspiration, Reward & Recognition​
​Motivation is a short-term force driven by external factors, often rooted in fear or a sense of lack. Inspiration is…karlbimshas.medium.com​

​The Leadership Scorecard​
​People intuitively know the difference between an effective leader and a lousy leader.karlbimshas.medium.com​

​Essential Leadership Traits: Empathy and Curiosity​
​Empathy and curiosity are traits a great leader instinctively calls upon and a lousy leader cannot comprehend.karlbimshas.medium.com​

​Vision, Passion, Action​
​You need a combination of vision, passion, and action to achieve exceptional performance.karlbimshas.medium.com​
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​It's Journal Season!​
​Target your personal and professional development with "messy" journalingkarlbimshas.substack.com​GO ​

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​Your Guide to Finding Purpose, Setting Goals and Maintaining Successkarlbimshas.substack.com​

​Where to Start Your Leadership Development​
​Six questions to helpkarlbimshas.substack.com​

​When Lousy Leaders Panic​
​It's because good things are happeningkarlbimshas.substack.com​

​Wk 4 - Connect Thoughts and Emotions for Greater Awareness​
​Hello Reader, ​ ​ As a leader, it's important to recognize that emotions and thoughts are interconnected. Emotions can…karlbimshas.ck.page​

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Resources Essay Recap Did you know you can get a conversational recap of the latest Reflections on Leadership essay via YouTube? It's a more off-the-cuff, unrehearsed 7-10 minute take on the weekly essay. Who Says You're Ready to Lead? When Feelings Start Making Leadership Decisions Accountability isn't a Threat Leadership Shouldn't Require People to Guess Leadership Is Discovered, Not Declared Podcast Or you can listen to the Reflections on Leadership Podcast on your platform of choice. 404....

3 days ago • 1 min read

Reflections on Leadership Who Says You’re Ready to Lead? Leadership Drift This Week Who Says You’re Ready to Lead? I recently saw a post about the signs that you’re not ready to lead (yet). It offered a familiar list of skills aspiring leaders should develop: making decisions with incomplete information, accepting and giving difficult feedback, delegating, managing conflict, and overcoming the need for approval. Most of the advice was reasonable, but I disliked the underlying premise. Who...

7 days ago • 5 min read

Reflections on Leadership When Feelings Start Making Leadership Decisions Leadership Drift This Week When Feelings Start Making Leadership Decisions Leadership gets harder when you let what's happening inside you determine what happens around you. You put off a difficult conversation you don't want to have. You aren't sure which decision to make, so you keep gathering information. You worry about how an idea will be received, so you keep refining it. You get frustrated that the same problem...

13 days ago • 5 min read