Introducing Lerner’s Lessons on Leadership

Amit knows that one of my career and life goals is to inspire people, with a focus on inspiring them to be successful. My most aspirational key result to measure success in achieving this goal is to one day give a TED talk. Amit encouraged me to share my thoughts on leadership, he suggested rather than focusing on new ideas or theories just make it practical, applicable, and bite sized resulting in lessons that are both useful and inspirational. He reminded me that I have plenty of experience and a lot of success and failure stories to share.

I want to keep focus on his points about making the advice practical and applicable. My plan for Lerner’s Lessons on Leadership is to share ideas and stories from my personal experiences, training and conferences I attended, books and articles I’ve read, as well as the talks and podcasts I’ve listened to while studying leadership. I will draw from the ideas and philosophies of my personal inspirational sources, such as Simon Sinek, Adam Grant, Ken Blanchard, John Doerr, as well as my mentors and past managers who have all influenced my leadership style.

I’m glad you read this far and I see it as my job to give you reasons to stick around and finish the introductory entry to my blog. The question you should be asking yourself right now is “Why is Lerner qualified to give lessons on leadership?” That’s a question I asked myself when I sat down to write this. For starters I’ve been a formal people leader for over a decade now. I started by leading 10 people and have grown to leading a roughly 700 person global organization today. Across that time I’ve learned a lot about leadership, I’ve had my successes and failures. More importantly, I’ve helped many people achieve success in their own careers. With all of this, I learned a lot and want to share what I found worked for me and help others, including you, be successful in their leadership careers.  You can read more about me in About the Author.

So what will this blog, Lerner’s Lessons on Leadership cover? Here are some topics I have in mind, in no particular order:

• Being a successful leader
• Learn from your team
• Measuring success
• Ask questions, don’t give answers
• Listen to your team
• I don’t know the answer
• Coaching and mentoring
• Difficult conversations
• Asking for help
• Trust
• Clarity
• Learn from failures (discuss what isn’t going well or didn’t go well)
• Focus on the journey
• Tell people where they stand

I hope you will come back and read future posts and add to the discussion in the comments.

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