You never know what impact your words will have on someone. I was going about my day a couple weeks ago, and had a conversation with someone that made me realize that people may actually care what I say. This person doesn’t fully know what a profound impact our conversation had on me. It was a simple comment about this site. Someone actually read what I had to say, and it lit a fire within me to keep going. It made me think about my role as a leader. Am I doing enough to appreciate my team? Do they know that I think about their futures and truly have their…

One of the very basics in leadership in my opinion is understanding that we are all human beings. Never judge a book by its cover. It is the easy path to simply assume the whole based on the basic first glance, or first encounter, but people are multi-dimensional beings that transcend what is simply on the surface. If you really want to be a leader, know your people! If you want to be a great leader… care about them! As human beings we tend to worry and care about ourselves first, and then others. It is a basic survival instinct that has been passed down from our evolution. We know…