It’s Personal

“It’s business, it’s not personal.” Really? Well, I don’t think so. I think business is personal. 

We make personal connections when we allow our spirits to reveal themselves to each other. It might be a quickly glimpse at first, but when that first tenuous connection is made, the bond grows. It strengthens. It builds a bonds that soon bridges what makes us different and connects what makes us the same.

Maybe what makes me special as a leader isn’t that I have made a personal connection here or there in my past but that I seek to make personal connections all the time. It’s one of the foundations of how I lead others.