Just One Thing!

I was happy to see that The Kevin Eikenberry Group's 2nd Annual Best of Leadership Blogs 2008 includes several of my personal favorites. In fact, using the Netvibes aggregator, I've been following 4 of the 10 finalist blogs on a regular basis for over 2 years! Check them out, along with all my favorite blogs, at my personal Netvibes Universe, or link directly to those 4 leadership blogs below.

• Leadership Made Simple

• Management Craft

• Slow Leadership

• Extreme Leadership

One of my particular favorites is Management Craft, by Lisa Haneberg. Lisa seems so pragmatic and I like how she contributes her own personal perspective to everyday, relevant, management and leadership topics. It doesn't hurt, either, that my opinions tend to align with Lisa's!

Take, for instance, one of the best leadership-related posts ever, in my opinion, was first posted by Lisa on Management Craft back on 2005. It was called Leadership is Just One Thing. In that post, Lisa establishes one really cool definition of Leadership, ultimately likening it to a fine wine in that "...there's a lot going on, but one overwhelming impression.

Check out Lisa's definition of Leadership and I think you'll agree with her when she concludes that:

"Anyone can lead if they do just this one thing".

What's your favorite definition of leadership? What's your favorite Leadership blog? I'd like to hear back from you!