Week 50. Got Nothing New.

Week 50.

This is a leadership blog.
Every week for 52 weeks of the year some leadership thought or idea.

Have you ever reached a point where you've got nothing to say?

No new idea.
No new suggestion.
No new insight.

I was counting the number of books I have in my office (479!).

Got me thinking that perhaps for 2011 I should not buy any new books but reread all 479.

Do we need another new ideas, another suggestions, another insight ....or is there already enough written.


Maybe this blog, if not the next 54 blogs, should be remembering all the leadership ideas, suggestions and insights I've read or heard over the past 20 years.

Maybe I should let some of the best leadership learning's I've had resurface and focus on trying to do them in 2011.

Here's the top two I learnings in 2010:

"Truth is the kindest form of management." (Bill Hybels)

"When uncertainty is gone your leadership is no longer needed." (Andy Stanley)

Add in a third - "Make sure its not too trivial to be truth." (Dallas Willard)

Maybe rather than read new ideas/suggestions/insight, maybe I should deliberately practice these three leadership insights more and more in 2011.

Maybe.