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Challenging Journey to Inspirational Leadership

William Attardi on August 27, 2025

I’m sure you, like me, have read many books over the years about leadership.  Are leaders born or made?  Answer: YES to both! Just posted a virtual learning session on YouTube and LearnersLive.com is about:

  1. Good to Great by Jim Collins
  2. Extreme Ownership by former U.S. Navy SEALS Jock Willink & Leif Babin

Powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and to life.

               

We take you on a challenging journey from being a competent individual to an inspirational leader…..the key word is “challenging”. Competent Individual to Inspiration Leader 

Inspirational Leaders possess certain attributes that distinguish them from everyone else. They anticipate rather than react to change.  Some call that vision. They become essential facilitators of change within their altered environment. They can skillfully communicate the new and technically esoteric with a clarity that leads to understanding and advocacy. Those in their lead execute the plan because they want to.

In every environment, in every company, in every department, in every office, in every classroom, on every team, there are inequities.  Men and women come in all sizes, all levels of acumen, all degrees of competency, skill and talent……..Many times in any organization and often, not of your choosing, you get a diversity of high performers, good performers, weak performers, and those that do not contribute a dime to the performance of the team. When it comes to standards of performance, you have to decide how much are you willing to tolerate.  Inspirational leaders put together teams of exceptional talent and high standards of performance.  In the book Extreme Talent, the former Navy Seals say it bluntly: “There are no bad teams, only bad leaders.”  If your team fails, it’s on you the Leader.  Get your arms around that concept…..

Inspirational Leaders have certain skills and they are good at it, rather, they are expert at it.

  1. Set Goals… get buy-in by everybody!
  2. Opportunities – vision & execution
  3. Problem-Solving –
  • Internal: to prevent damage to the business
  • External: to solve customer pain points
  1. Decision-Making – do the right things

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Here’s a little-known fact about the MLB World Series

First, let me congratulate the Milwaukee Brewers on their first World Series Championship. Well played the entire 2026 season, 103 wins was the best.… My new team in the NL!

The 1903 World Series was the first modern World Series, and the Boston Americans (now the Red Sox) defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 5 games to 3. Do you believe it………….a team from Boston actually won the first World Series…….  The surprising twist: The World Series wasn’t played at all in 1904! The NY Giants refused to participate because their owner, John T. Brush, considered the championship unnecessary. The Series returned in 1905, when those NY Giants won. So, baseball’s biggest annual event actually skipped its second year! The team from Boston (Americans, then Red Sox) have a World Series record of 9 wins and 4 losses in championship appearances, for a 69.2% championship success rate. Their nine championships came in 1903, 1912, 1915, 1916, 1918, 2004, 2007, 2013 and 2018. Sad fact: The team from Bean Town waited 86 years between championships, from 1918 until its dramatic victory in 2004 over the St. Louis Cardinals (4-0), when the Red Sox ended the famous Curse of the Bambino……just sayin!