The Law of Legacy: A leader’s lasting value is measured by succession. My life sentence is, “I want to add value to leaders who will multiply value to others.” Most people simply accept their lives – they don’t lead them. Someday people will summarize your life in a single sentence. My advice: pick it now!… Read More
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The Law of Explosive Growth: To add growth, lead followers – To multiply, lead leaders. Becoming a leader who develops leaders requires an entirely different focus and attitude from simply attracting and leading followers. It takes a different mind-set. Leadership development compounds. The more you invest in people and the longer you do it, the… Read More
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The Law of Timing: When to lead is as important as what to do and where to go. If a leader repeatedly shows poor judgment, even in little things, people start to think that having him or her as the leader is the real mistake. When the right leader and the right timing come together,… Read More
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The Law of Sacrifice: A leader must give up to go up. The heart of good leadership is sacrifice. Sacrifice is an ongoing process, not a one-time payment. If leaders have to give up to go up, then they have to give up even more to stay up. This is certainly a subjective point of… Read More
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The Law of Priorities: Leaders understand that activity is not necessarily accomplishment. Leaders should get out of their comfort zone but stay in their strength zone. I suppose that some of my economic training will shine through right now but, not being one of my strong suits, please excuse my rudimentary comments. The division of… Read More
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The Law of the Big MO: Momentum is a leader’s best friend. Why is momentum a leader’s best friend? Many times momentum is the only thing that makes the difference between losing and winning. Momentum is like a magnifying glass; it makes things look bigger than they really are. Even average people can perform far… Read More
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The Law of Victory: victorious leaders possess an unwillingness to accept defeat. The alternative to winning is totally unacceptable to them. When the pressure is on, great leaders are at their best. Whatever is inside them comes to the surface. The team doesn’t win a championship its players are working from different agendas. Leaders who… Read More
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The Law of Buy-in: People buy into the leader, then the vision. The leader finds the dream and then the people. The people find the leader and then the dream. People don’t at first follow worthy causes. They follow worthy leaders who promote causes they can believe in. Every message that people receive in filtered… Read More
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The Law of the Picture: People do what people see. Great leaders always seem to embody two seemingly disparate qualities. They are both highly visionary and highly practical. The leader’s effective modeling of the vision makes the picture come alive. Followers may doubt what their leaders say, but they usually believe what they do. The… Read More
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The Law of Empowerment: Only secure leaders give power to others. Leading well is not about enriching yourself – it’s about empowering others. The number one enemy of empowerment is the fear of losing what we have. To push people down, you have to go down with them. Enlarging others makes you larger. I certainly… Read More
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The Law of the Inner Circle: A leader’s potential is determined by those closest to him. It’s lonely at the top, so you’d better take someone with you. Hire the best staff you can find, develop them as much as you can, and hand off everything you possibly can to them. I would have to… Read More
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The Law of Connection. Leaders touch a heart before they ask for a hand. You can’t move people to action unless you first move them with emotion. The heart comes before the head. The stronger the relationship and connection between individuals, the more likely the follower will want to help the leader. To connect with… Read More
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The Law of Magnetism: Who you are is who you attract. Who you attract is not determined by what you want. It’s determined by who you are. If you think your people are negative, then you’d better check your attitude. The better leader you are, the better leaders you will attract. While I agree with… Read More
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The law of intuition: Leaders evaluate everything with a leadership bias. People are intuitive in their area of strength. Who you are dictates what you see. Natural ability and learned skills create an informed intuition that makes leadership issues jump out at leaders. Leaders who want to succeed maximize every asset and resource they have… Read More
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The law of respect. People naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves. The more leadership ability a person has, the more quickly he recognizes leadership – in others. When people respect you as a person, they admire you. When they respect you as a friend, they love you. When they respect you as a leader, they… Read More
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The law of solid ground: Trust is the foundation of leadership. When it comes to leadership, you just can’t take shortcuts, no matter how long you’ve been leading your people. To build trust, a leader must exhibit competence, connection, and character. Character makes trust possible. And trust makes leadership possible. That is the law of… Read More
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The law of addition: Leaders add value by serving others. The bottom line in leadership isn’t how far we advance ourselves but how far we advance others. Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn, and then lead. This is a subject… Read More
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The law of navigation: Anyone can steer the ship, but it takes a leader to chart the course. No matter how much you learn from the past, it will never tell you all you need to know for the present. Balancing optimism and realism, intuition and planning, faith and fact can be very difficult. But… Read More
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The law of process: Leadership develops daily, not in a day. Becoming a leader is a lot like investing successfully in the stock market. If your hope is to make a fortune in a day, you’re not going to be successful. Something I try to impress upon my children and the comrades I associate with… Read More
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The law of influence: The true measure of leadership is influence – Nothing more, nothing less: If you don’t have influence, you will never be able to lead others. The only thing a title can buy is a little time – either to increase your level of influence with others or to undermine it. The… Read More
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I’m always interested in the individual philosophy of other leaders in my general pursuit of personal refinement, development, and diversification. Currently, I’m perusing John Maxwell’s, 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, 10th Anniversary Edition. One thing that I’ve learned over the years is that knowledge must be set free, not hoarded by the minority, but shared… Read More
The New Roadmap for FedRAMP
Recently, FedRAMP announced that, per stakeholder feedback, the federal market’s needs for cloud SaaS products are not being met. A significant part of this is the program’s bottleneck. To address this issue, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released a draft memo offering significant program changes, including updates to infrastructure, leadership, and authorization. … Read More
Incident Response and the Responsibility of Your Organization for Protecting Data
As the recent Ivanti security breaches indicate, the existence of a strong and effective incident response isn’t an option but a necessity. An incident response plan (IRP) is essential to prepare an organization to respond to any security incident effectively and on time. This plan spells out processes that an organization should undergo in case… Read More
Security, Integrity, and SaaS Solutions
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is, for better or worse, the model of modern software distribution and use. There are many benefits to this arrangement, but there are also significant security issues. Unfortunately, these security issues are ever-evolving and target almost every managed service provider on the market. This article touches on some foundational realities, challenges, and considerations… Read More