Climbing any big mountain always includes many unknowns. The team dynamics, the weather, the snow conditions and even the local culture, political climate and economy come into play. This is the excitement of exploration and adventure.
onday July 26 – Summit Day
At 11am we stood on the top of Europe. It was a long and tiring climb, but fun and exciting.
It was very busy in the hut which translated into a lot of noise, but I don’t sleep much before a summit climb anyway. I went to bed about 8pm, but [...]
I spent today chasing the sun. We started west, but quickly realized we would not catch it so we turned north and flew directly over the Artic Circle. We finally caught the sun 10 hours later in Moscow.
Summit and Frontier President Scott Kress will be departing for Russia on July 17. He will be attempting to climb Mount Elbrus which is the tallest mountin in Europe.
Regardless of who you lead of within what context, followers are looking for the same four basic things from you. These are TRUST, COMPASSION, STABILITY and HOPE.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in Canada are members of Costco. I was fortunate be be interviewed for the November/December 2009 issue. See a link to the article here.
http://www.costcoconnection.ca/connectioncaeng/20091112/?folio=23
A study by McGraw-Hill revealed that companies that maintained focus on people and marketing during a recession realized a 275% rebound when the economy recovered. Those that cut spending to people and marketing only saw a 19% rebound from their low point.
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When delivering our team development training programs one of the areas of focus is on individual leadership and influence. The premise is that if you think of yourself as a leader you will do things differently than if you think of yourself as a follower.
In his book, Primal Leadership, Daniel Goleman describes six different styles that can be utilized by an emotionally intelligence leader. These styles are known as visionary, coaching, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting and commanding.
In this video, Terry Tate gives us an excellent demonstration of pacesetting leadership. The pacesetting leader:
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This video was shot at a recent sold out event. The local news did a short feature on it. Enjoy.