Timeless Leadership

04/23/2025

If you were granted the opportunity to choose between two states of being, which would you prefer: being stupid but not realizing it, or being intelligent but not believing it?
More:
https://www.timelesstimely.com/p/ignorance-incompetence-and-impostors?r=bx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

03/05/2025

“When troubles come, they come not single spies
But in battalions.” — William Shakespeare, 1601

No one ever accomplished anything great alone.

We're always faced with uncertainty. Lately, it might seem like an awful lot is being piled on us.

What's the answer? Find your people and voice your principles.

When we make our values and principles known, it helps our people understand what our priorities are and creates more certainty to help keep us steady in times of flux.

Our principles and values remain constant and are (or ought to be) a rudder that helps us navigate the roughest storms.

Read the whole thing:

What to do when faced with so much uncertainty?

01/28/2025

If we want to work together well with others, we need to acknowledge their dignity as human beings.

Dignity is a fundamental aspect of what it means to be human. When you disregard or even violate the dignity of others, you make them feel like nonentities.

Everyone on your team deserves to be treated with dignity.

Dignity is what connects us.

More: https://www.timelesstimely.com/p/dignity-connects-us

01/20/2025

It’s easy to be frozen in fear. But where does that get you? Nowhere.

This set of 12 curated entries from Timeless & Timely has valuable perspectives on what do to when you’re not sure what needs to be done — and shows which virtues and character traits we need to withstand any crisis.

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” — H.P. Lovecraft, 1927

More: https://www.timelesstimely.com/p/your-guide-through-uncertainty

11/29/2024

Thoughts on consumerism this

11/18/2024

Without integrity, a leader is nothing.

10/27/2024

“When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.” — Montesquieu, 1745

Last week, I wrote about leadership and the concept of noblesse oblige - literally “noble rank entails responsibility.”

A leader’s duty isn’t only to an organization, but to its people as well, as they think beyond themselves and consider the greater good.

Noblesse oblige is an ancient principle infused in leaders and multiple cultural touchpoints throughout history.

It starts with the New Testament of The Bible:
“From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.” — Luke 12:48

It extends to other areas of history as well, such as in Theodore Roosevelt's inaugural address:
“Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as be seen as a people with such responsibilities.” — Theodore Roosevelt, 1905

And most famously in Marvel Comics #1:
“With great power there must also come -- great responsibility.” — Stan Lee, 1962

Each of these expressions carries the same message: there is a moral and ethical responsibility for those with more power to consider those without such privilege.

Powerful leaders have a duty, directed not at their peers and counterparts in the halls of power and entitlement, but toward the less powerful or less fortunate, who are directly affected by the actions these leaders take (or don't take).

We all should use our powers for the good of others.

It is noble. It is right. It is our duty.

More: https://www.timelesstimely.com/p/noblesse-oblige

10/23/2024

The concept is neither new nor something born of the chivalric or feudal ages.

Noblesse oblige is an ancient principle infused in leaders and multiple cultural touchpoints throughout history.

Whatever the expression, it carries the same message: there is a moral and ethical responsibility for those with more power to consider those without such privilege.

Theirs is a duty, directed not at their peers and counterparts in the halls of power and entitlement, but toward the less powerful or less fortunate, who benefit from the actions of leaders who care about them. https://www.timelesstimely.com/p/noblesse-oblige?r=bx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

10/17/2024

Spoke last night at the 50th Anniversary gala for the Detroit chapter of ISACA, held at The Henry Ford.

The topic was Building a Strong Culture for Growth by knowing who you are and defining success.

More: https://scottmonty.com/speaking

10/02/2024

Looking at the past, the future seems so certain, doesn’t it?

Our present is the future of generations past.

But for our ancestors, the future was never guaranteed.

When we lead others, we owe them a well-articulated and hopeful vision, with tangible goals that we celebrate along the way.

https://www.timelesstimely.com/p/the-promise-of-tomorrow