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4 Leadership Lessons That Leaders Say they Wish They Had Learned Sooner

 Making the right decision vs. making the safe decision.

 I spoke to a healthcare project management team one time and I asked the group, “What does leadership mean to you?” One of the participants responded, “Leadership is about being liked.” No, leadership is not about being liked. If leadership were about being liked then it wouldn’t be called leadership, it’d be called friendship.

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4 Leadership Lessons That Leaders Say they Wish They Had Learned Sooner

 Emotions aren’t scary. 

 Emotions are uncomfortable topics for weak leaders. That’s a strong statement, I know, but in my experience as a leadership coach, the strongest leaders are comfortable talking about emotions because they’re confident with themselves. Think of it this way. Leadership takes courage. If leadership was easy then it wouldn’t be an approximate $130 billion industry and I’d be out of a job. Performing a skill you’re already good at or having a discussion about a topic you’re already comfortable with isn’t leading, it’s execution.

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4 Leadership Lessons That Leaders Say they Wish They Had Learned Sooner

 There is no work/life balance. Stop chasing it. 

The whole work/life balance thing doesn’t exist if you’re ambitious, motivated and hungry. You can’t get to the next level, achieve your goals or pursue your dreams if you’re only playing 50% of the time. To do what you love and love what you do takes work—a lot of work. I certainly didn’t become a SEAL because I had “balance.” Instead, what I had was an obsession. I had a goal and was obsessed with achieving it. As a result, I created impact in my life and in my work.

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4 Leadership Lessons That Leaders Say they Wish They Had Learned Sooner Behind every complaint is an unexplored question. Meetings are more than employees simply getting together to talk and "figure things out." Meetings provide an opportunity for connection and belonging. Nowhere else are there such glaring opportunities to build community, make decisions, connect and find meaning. However, counterproductive workplace behaviors, such as showing up late or having sidebar conversations, pose direct threats to such opportunities. Even a seemingly benign remark by an employee provides insight into that employee’s world.

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Failure only exists when you choose to stop learning

During his Senate confirmation hearing, General Mattis made the following remark regarding his nickname “Mad dog”: “Senator, I assure you that nickname was given to me by the press and some [of] you have experienced similar occasions with the press where perhaps they didn't get it quite right."

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Jeff Boss is a columnist for Forbes and Entrepreneur

Jeff helps teams explore the challenging situations they face, the ideal outcomes they seek, what it is about those situations that make it challenging for the team to work together and achieve those outcomes, and actionable-steps the team can take to achieve those results.

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Jeff Boss is a principal and senior advisor at N2Growth specializing in team coaching.

Unlike other leadership team coaches who are familiar with high performing teams only from what they’ve read about or researched, Jeff applies the practical experience gained from the pinnacle of the SEAL Teams to startup and corporate teams to accelerate how they work together within the larger system (i.e. the organization) and tie their improvements to the bottom line.

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13 Habits Of Humble People

Humble people can receive a bad rap. Humility is frequently associated with being too passive, submissive or insecure, but this couldn’t be any further from the truth.

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4 Things You Didn't Know About Leading a Business

The appeal of owning a business can be alluring. The freedoms to make your own decisions and to do what you want, when you want and with whom you want to are glamorous enough to compel any type “A” personality into breaching the entrepreneurial world.

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Read more here: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/247477

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The 3 Moments That Give Hardship Meaning 

Difficult times forge strong character, but that doesn’t make enduring hardship any easier. Humans are predisposed to avoid hardship and run away from uncertainty. However, the elements that we fear are the same ones that forge. They forge character, resilience, decision making and all those “things” that ultimately separates winners from losers.

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Author, Leadership and Team coach 

Jeff Boss is a principal and senior advisor at N2Growth specializing in team coaching. Jeff is a former Navy SEAL, has written several books on leadership, is a columnist for both Forbes and Entrepreneur, he is pursuing a Doctorate in Human and Organizational Learning from The George Washington University, and holds a Masters in Organizational Leadership from Norwich University. Prior to joining N2Growth Jeff had his own coaching practice, and prior to that he was a leadership advisor with the McChrystal Group.

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Jeff Boss is a principal and senior advisor at N2Growth specializing in team coaching.

Unlike other leadership team coaches who are familiar with high performing teams only from what they’ve read about or researched, Jeff applies the practical experience gained from the pinnacle of the SEAL Teams to startup and corporate teams to accelerate how they work together within the larger system (i.e. the organization) and tie their improvements to the bottom line.

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Jeff Boss is a columnist for Forbes and Entrepreneur

Jeff helps teams explore the challenging situations they face, the ideal outcomes they seek, what it is about those situations that make it challenging for the team to work together and achieve those outcomes, and actionable-steps the team can take to achieve those results.

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Jeff Boss 

Specialties: Team coaching, team alignment, team dynamics, communication, decision making, leadership development, team development.

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Jeff Boss is a columnist for Forbes and Entrepreneur

Jeff helps teams explore the challenging situations they face, the ideal outcomes they seek, what it is about those situations that make it challenging for the team to work together and achieve those outcomes, and actionable-steps the team can take to achieve those results.

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Jeff Boss | principal and senior advisor N2Growth

Industry Experience:• Healthcare• Tech• Startups• Oil & Gas• Finance• Consumer Products• Telecommunications• Agriculture

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Jeff Boss is a columnist for Forbes and Entrepreneur

Jeff helps teams explore the challenging situations they face, the ideal outcomes they seek, what it is about those situations that make it challenging for the team to work together and achieve those outcomes, and actionable-steps the team can take to achieve those results.