{"id":68,"date":"2006-08-17T17:43:58","date_gmt":"2006-08-17T06:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/2006\/08\/17\/leading-through-meaning\/"},"modified":"2007-02-21T19:10:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-21T08:10:19","slug":"leading-through-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/leading-through-meaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Leading through Meaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever heard me speak about the <strong>Magic of Leadership<\/strong> you will know that I believe one of the ways leaders inspire others to follow them is by creating new meaning.<\/p>\n<p>In his free eBook* on <strong>The Art of the Start<\/strong>, <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Guy Kawasaki blog\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.guykawasaki.com\">Guy Kawasaki<\/a> describes what he calls the GIST (Great Ideas for Starting Things) of what an entrepreneur (or leader) needs to do when starting a new venture.<\/p>\n<p>His first Great Idea for Starting Things is to <strong>Make Meaning<\/strong> and he offers some interesting insight into what that might mean.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Meaning&#8221;, he says &#8220;is not about money, power or prestige.  It&#8217;s not even about creating a fun place to work.  Among the meanings of &#8216;meaning&#8217; are to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make the world a better place.<\/li>\n<li>Increase the quallity of life.<\/li>\n<li>Right a terrible wrong.<\/li>\n<li>Prevent the end of something good.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great advice for leaders who ever need to gather support, or who just want to be sure it&#8217;s the GOOD people who want to work with them.<\/p>\n<p>* You can download your free copy of his eBook <strong>The Art of the Start<\/strong> in the Leadership Skill Center Members Area.  <a title=\"member's login\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/lsc\/login\/index.php\">Login here<\/a> if you are already a member. <a title=\"become a member of the leadership skill center\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/lsc\/login\/signup.php\">Create a new account<\/a> if you are not yet a Member (It&#8217;s free!)<br \/>\n<a title=\"become a member of the leadership skill center\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/lsc\/login\/signup.php\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever heard me speak about the Magic of Leadership you will know that I believe one of the ways leaders inspire others to follow them is by creating new meaning. In his free eBook* on The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki describes what he calls the GIST (Great Ideas for Starting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-leadership-tips","category-resources"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leadershipskillcenter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}