Me!

a few words on leadership and learning new things

I’ve been going through some life changes recently (everything is great), but my schedule is shifting, I’m doing things at different times of the day, and I’m figuring out what else I can shake up.

I used to (I think) be a musician - or at least I used to play music a lot and sometimes get paid. I’ve probably only played an instrument a handful of times over the last ten years, but I’ve been thinking more and more lately about trying to play again. While I am confident I won’t be horrible, I’m equally as confident that I won’t be nearly as good as I was a decade ago. I frequently claim that a lot of what I do in leadership positions was learned from music, so at the very least, I should play more just to see if I can find any more parallels.

Levels of Leadership

One of my favorite leadership books (at least defined by the number of times I’ve re-read or referred to it) is John Maxwell’s The Five Levels of Leadership (this is the first obvious omission from my post on my favorite books). …