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Leading as a Happy Warrior: Essential Traits and Practices

August 15, 2024 Karl Bimshas

Leading as a Happy Warrior: Essential Traits and Practices

A "Happy Warrior" is a leader who embodies resilience, positivity, and a deep sense of purpose, even in adversity. These leaders approach challenges enthusiastically and optimistically, inspiring those around them to persevere and thrive. Happy … [Read more...]

Reflections on Leadership Happy Warrior, Leadership

30 Principles for Your Leadership Toolbox

June 18, 2024 Karl Bimshas

Effective leaders constantly seek ways to improve themselves and their teams. This collection of 30 principles offers wisdom on various topics, from critical thinking to communication. By studying and applying these principles, leaders can better … [Read more...]

Reflections on Leadership Leadership, Leadership Development

What Role Will You Play?

June 14, 2020 Karl Bimshas

Every once in a while, a set of events line up and become a catalyst for change. Some of us are blindsided and harshly jostled into reality, and some of us willfully stay blind, refusing to believe the game board has shifted, and that there are new … [Read more...]

Leadership, Reflections on Leadership Leadership, racism

Leadership Spotlight: Teri Wilder

March 11, 2019 Karl Bimshas

For Leadership Spotlight, Leadership Advisor Karl Bimshas, speaks with a diverse array of busy professionals in various stages of their career and along different paths of their leadership journey. Here’s a summary of his conversation with Teri … [Read more...]

Leadership Spotlight, Reflections on Leadership Leadership

Knowing Your Values

January 24, 2018 Karl Bimshas

Here's why knowing your values is so important. When you know them, you make decisions faster, and those decisions support you, they don't sabotage you. You know the difference between when you are acting congruent with your values, and when you are … [Read more...]

Aha Tools, Leadership, Reflections on Leadership Decision-making, Leadership, Values

Leaders Ask

October 19, 2017 Karl Bimshas

Leaders think differently, which is one of the reasons they stand out from the crowd. Crowds tend to settle, content with how things are, or lamenting about how things were. Leaders like comfort too, but in smaller doses. They know too much … [Read more...]

Communication, Leadership, Productivity, Reflections on Leadership Leadership, Management, Questions, uncertainty

Poor Leadership Pisses Me Off

October 17, 2017 Karl Bimshas

Rationale, reflection, and gratitude for my business and a quest to improve the state of leadership. Throughout my management career at both Fortune 500, and regional companies, I encouraged direct reports and peers alike to stop deferring … [Read more...]

Leadership, Purpose, Reflections on Leadership Gratitude, Leadership, Lousy Leadership, Management, Poor Leadership, Rant

Fathers and Leadership

June 18, 2016 Karl Bimshas

For Father’s Day, I’m posting four essays that I’ve written over the years about leadership and ways my father and grandfathers have influenced me. It is an embarrassingly insignificantly small thank you to them, and a reminder to you, that in some … [Read more...]

Leadership, Reflections on Leadership Appreciation, Fathers, Leadership, Thanks

How to Reflect: “Huh? No Duh. A-ha!”

April 18, 2016 Karl Bimshas

Busy professionals are notorious for not making time to reflect on their activities. “Too busy,” they say. Which is an ineffective excuse. Periodically take stock of your current level of awareness to learn what you are doing, or could be … [Read more...]

Aha Tools, Reflections on Leadership Leadership, Personal Development, Reflection

Hire a New Boss

September 21, 2015 Karl Bimshas

Many managers are under appreciated. They endure direct reports endlessly complaining about everything from salary to the temperature of the office. From above, there is the piling on of more demands, fewer resources and pressure to achieve random … [Read more...]

Aha Tools, Leadership, Reflections on Leadership Leadership

Rule of Three

September 3, 2015 Karl Bimshas

I have a personal operating principle I call my rule of threes. I am sure, based on my background, that it is deeply influenced by the writing principle of the same name. omne trium perfectum The human mind likes sets of three. Three is more … [Read more...]

Aha Tools, Leadership, Reflections on Leadership Leadership

Growing Confidence and Support

August 27, 2015 Karl Bimshas

We are each ultimately responsible for our level of confidence and support on any given task in our lives. Be it at home, work, or anywhere else. Too often we take our feelings for granted and accept them without challenging them. This can be a … [Read more...]

Aha Tools, Leadership, Reflections on Leadership Leadership

Revisit Plan A

August 20, 2015 Karl Bimshas

The summer between my college freshman and sophomore years I worked behind a customer service desk at a neighborhood bank. While there I learned a lot about interacting with clients, particularly over sensitive issues. Never mess with a person's … [Read more...]

Aha Tools, Leadership Leadership

Be Less of a Jerk

August 13, 2015 Karl Bimshas

Be less of a jerk. That may be the most simplistic leadership advice you'll ever receive. Why then, is it so difficult to achieve? Because, we glamorize people who act like jerks. By definition, they are quick, sharp and sudden, which are … [Read more...]

Aha Tools, Leadership Leadership, User's Guide

Reflections on Leadership 7/26/15

July 27, 2015 Karl Bimshas

Stop Planning Plans organize your thoughts and resources. They are a half step better than an idea. Ideas and plans are the beginning, and you are spending way too much time on them. If you secretly enjoy brainstorming and planning, then you … [Read more...]

Leadership, Reflections on Leadership action, Leadership, Leadership Development, Planning

Leadership Calling

July 17, 2015 Karl Bimshas

In many ways, modern leadership has become a caricature of itself. Our curiosity to define it, our vigor to pursue it, and our zeal to admonish it from others, does little to improve our current condition. Celebrity gets confused for leadership; … [Read more...]

Leadership Inspiration, Leadership

Reflections on Leadership 6/28/15

June 28, 2015 Karl Bimshas

Lead Like You Mean It Leadership is not a passive activity. Every decision gets made, not deferred.  Leaders do not scroll through their emails in the morning and react to an insomniacs musings.  Leaders set the agenda, draw the picture of … [Read more...]

Leadership, Reflections on Leadership Goal Setting, Leadership, Leadership Development

Leadership Starts at Home

March 20, 2015 Karl Bimshas

Think back to the early leaders in your life. I suppose, you could argue that the doctor who delivered you counts, however, most would agree it was probably your parents or other guardians who were your first leadership models. Every day, through … [Read more...]

Leadership Leadership, Parenting, Responsibility

Beware Leaders of Silos who Think it’s a Lighthouse

March 10, 2015 Karl Bimshas

There are some busy executives who appear bigger than life. Their charismatic, bold, innovative expressions with sweeping visual displays make a nice, even inspiring show. However, leadership is not about being bigger than your surroundings. It is … [Read more...]

Feedback, Leadership Direct Reports, Humility, Leadership

Ask Your Direct Reports Their Opinion and They May Hate You Less

February 26, 2015 Karl Bimshas

Probably your direct reports don't hate you, Things are not that bad. It might be mild discontent. But, what could explain the fact that they don't seem to get it. If only they could stop driving you crazy and just do their job like they are supposed … [Read more...]

Aha Tools, Feedback, Leadership Feedback, Leadership

The Practice of Sincerity

August 14, 2013 Karl Bimshas Leave a Comment

  “Practice what you preach and act with integrity,” are phrases that people throw about frequently, along with words like genuine, credible, authentic and sincere. During the Roman Empire, less reputable potters and sculptors would fill … [Read more...]

Purpose Leadership, Mission, Sincerity, Values

Emerging Mother?

July 20, 2013 Karl Bimshas Leave a Comment

I never liked the term emerging leader. It’s like calling a woman who’s pregnant an emerging mother. It’s clunky, vague and rude. I accept that leadership is a continuum, but it’s not based on time, it’s based on effectiveness. How do you increase … [Read more...]

Feedback Feedback, Leadership

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