Love, Learn, and Let Go with David Veech
b'David teaches leaders how to love, learn, and let go so they can create a workplace that fully engages the creative and productive power of people. He has learned how to do this through 20 years of service in the Army and continues to learn today. He has shared what he has learned with thousands of students and clients since he retired, and his message will inspire you and your team to obliterate obstacles, accelerate innovation, and elevate performance leaving everyone motivated and engaged for the future. He has written multiple books, including his most recent, Leadersights: Creating Great Leaders Who Create Great Workplaces.\\n\\nLEADERSHIP INSIGHTS\\n\\n- Love: Decide you are going to put the needs of others before your own.\\n- Learn: Understand the problems others are facing so you can provide the support they need.\\n- Let go: Allow people to fail rather than doing it yourself. This will help them learn, which will allow you to lead rather than doing others\\u2019 work.\\n- Connect: Attract people to your team by bragging on the efforts and results of your team.\\n- If you teach people instead of direct them, you will develop a culture of compliance rather than a culture of engagement.\\n- To build organizational values into structures that drive behaviors, senior leaders must define the acceptable behaviors, and build feedback mechanisms that reinforce these behaviors. Then, these behaviors need to be enforced.\\n- A lot of people see what others need to do, but it is vital to be willing to first make changes in your own life and in your own leadership.\\n\\nQUESTIONS TO INSPIRE US TO ACTION\\n\\n- What is some lesson, saying, or experience that continues to influence your leadership to this day? \\u201cGood judgment comes from experience, and experience, well, that comes from poor judgment.\\u201d \\u2013 A. A Milne\\n- Use three descriptors to finish this sentence: \\u201cA leader is\\u2026\\u201d Loving, always learning, letting go (to develop others).\\n- What is a question that leaders should be asking either themselves or others? Will this decision or action lead to an action that I would be proud of?\\n- What book would you recommend to leaders? Leadership BS: Fixing Workplaces and Careers One Truth at a Time by Jeffrey Pfeffer\\n- If you could get every listener to start doing something THIS week to help them be a better leader, what would it be? Believe that you can be a better leader by changing how you behave.\\n- As a general life principle, is it better to ask \\u201cwhy?\\u201d or \\u201cwhy not?\\u201d \\u201cWhy not?\\u201d before something happens, and \\u201cwhy?\\u201d after the fact.\\n\\nWebsite:\\nhttp://www.davidveech.com\\n\\nContact:\\ndavid.veech@leadersights.com\\n\\nFind David on social media:\\nTwitter: https://twitter.com/davidveech (@DavidVeech)\\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/davidveech/ (@DavidVeech)\\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.veech (@David.Veech)\\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidveech/ (in/DavidVeech)'