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Why Do People Enter Burning Buildings?
Knowing what you stand for clarifies your moral obligations. When you witness someone do something heroic do you ever ask, “What made...
Dave Anderson
Dec 27, 20233 min read
The Cynic is Never a Good Leader
Leaders of Character focus on what can be done and lead hopeful teams. Cynics focus on what might not work and create helpless...
Dave Anderson
Dec 19, 20233 min read
How Fear Causes Us to Drift Towards Mediocrity
Will your drifting get you where you want to go? Leadership is uncomfortable. You can not lead well and maintain your comfort. Choosing...
Dave Anderson
Dec 12, 20232 min read
The Status Quo, Your Comfort Zone, and Fear
Do we scream at the tide and wonder why the tide isn’t listening? Doggedly holding onto the status quo while our organization changes...
Dave Anderson
Dec 5, 20232 min read
How We Drift Away from Integrity and into Hypocrisy
Few people set their sights on being a hypocrite. Most of us believe that Integrity is important and want to see ourselves and have...
Dave Anderson
Nov 28, 20233 min read
How Leaders Build and Destroy Hope
Whichever choice we make in tough circumstances, that choice will be contagious. They will lead our teams towards despair or towards...
Dave Anderson
Nov 21, 20233 min read
Courage is the Key to Character
Without Courage, any talk of character is just theoretical. You need Courage to put those words into action. Name one good thing you have...
Dave Anderson
Nov 14, 20233 min read
West Point’s Class of 1988 - A Rare Level of Leadership
“The Worst Class Ever!” - Former Commandant of Cadets I just spent an entire weekend with some of America’s greatest leaders. They are 4...
Dave Anderson
Nov 7, 20233 min read
Leaders Do The Messy Things
Show me a leader without a little dirt under their fingernails, and I’ll show you a leader who is falling short. Recently, my 90 year old...
Dave Anderson
Oct 31, 20233 min read
Sometimes Winning is a Poor Measure of Success
There are a lot of lonely “winners” out there. Narcissistic people can win. Even stupid people can win sometimes! Sometimes winning is...
Dave Anderson
Oct 24, 20233 min read
What People Don’t Understand About Humility
Exercising Humility doesn’t mean you have less conviction. It means treating people with different convictions with respect and not as...
Dave Anderson
Oct 17, 20232 min read
Character is Not Bestowed - It is Earned
You don’t need an MBA, JD, or PHD to become a Leader of Character. There is a crisis in leadership in our society today. That probably...
Dave Anderson
Oct 10, 20232 min read
The Person Who Will Kill Your Meeting
Who does most of the talking in your meetings? Meetings. Some of you just had a full body shiver. Meetings are often listed as the...
Dave Anderson
Oct 3, 20232 min read
Moral Drift - How Did I Get Here?
The first step to solving a problem is admitting you have one. In the early 2000s, I realized I was not the person I wanted to be. If you...
Dave Anderson
Sep 26, 20233 min read
Building Relationships of Value
If we value something, we are intentional with it. I love my Yeti! My Yeti keeps my cold drinks cold and my hot drinks hot! I paid extra...
Dave Anderson
Sep 19, 20233 min read
Three Character Traits of People Who Persist
“The smallest of steps complete the grandest of journeys.” - Kyle Carpenter Imagine if your whole life radically changed in a split...
Dave Anderson
Sep 12, 20233 min read
Exercising Character Even When You Get Demoted
Just over a year ago, I retired from the Baltimore Police Department, where I had served as a police officer for 25 years. In reflecting...
Dave Anderson
Sep 5, 20234 min read
Strong Leaders Expose Their Weaknesses
Ironically, leaders become stronger when they share their weaknesses. Some leaders would rather eat a bug than admit to others they made...
Dave Anderson
Aug 29, 20233 min read
Integrity is a Hard Path for Leaders
When we choose the path of most resistance, we are choosing to be the type of leaders people at our work, our spouses, and our children...
Dave Anderson
Aug 22, 20232 min read
The Difference Between Winners and Losers in Life
Excuses hold many people with talent and great opportunities back, while others with fewer gifts and the deck stacked against them, move...
Dave Anderson
Aug 15, 20233 min read
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