GIANT LEAP BLOG

Building courageous leadership and inspiring fantastic results.

Terminal Redlining

Terminal Redlining

Redlining (verb): An unsafe, unhealthy, unsustainable condition whereby a leader and/or team are over-worked and under-resourced for unreasonable amounts of time. When Fast Paced Turns into Redlining My company was once hired to develop a leadership program for a...

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Bringing The Holiday Spirit

Leadership requires sound judgment. But there's a big difference between having sound judgment and being overly judgmental. Sometimes when you're too judgmental, you become intolerant. You pre-judge a situation and that gets in the way of connecting with others. In...

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So You Want To Be Mentored?

So You Want To Be Mentored?

Mentors are supremely important to an aspiring leader. They are the voices whose feedback reaches our heart and head. They are the steady hands that firmly hold us accountable to our own potential. They are the polishers of our conscience, the magnifiers of our...

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The Courage To Make Mistakes

Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, shares a story from her childhood - a perspective that helped her build a company with just $5000 and turn it into an international retail powerhouse. Each weekend, her dad would sit down and ask Sara and her brother one question, a...

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6 Steps To Strong Company-Wide Communication

6 Steps To Strong Company-Wide Communication

Maintaining good communication with co-workers is something that each individual employee must be consistently working on, with the support of informed and involved leaders, of course. But creating an environment of effective communication is the responsibility of the...

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What Is Your High Dive?

A lot of people ask me, "How did you get interested in the virtue of courage?" My answer? It actually started with a profound fear! I was never a great athlete as a kid, but one day at the local pool I "accidentally" did a complete back-flip. I went on to compete in...

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The People Have Spoken

The People Have Spoken

In last month’s edition of the newsletter, I sent a survey to get your improvement ideas. I want to thank everyone who participated for their thoughtful input. We create these newsletters for you, and I am thrilled to have such valuable feedback moving forward. Below...

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