Leadership Insights
Every year, people ask me to recap the year’s most popular posts. It’s always a challenge to develop a list. For this list, I am including only some of my original posts. I will separately share the interview list.
Unpredictable Results
Talk to any blogger and you will likely hear the same thing. It is always a surprise to see what becomes popular. I may work like crazy on something for hours, post it and it may see very little traffic. Something else ends up taking off and it was almost a last minute thought. You just can’t predict.
In putting together a list of popular posts, there are also so many ways to look at the data. Do you measure purely by the traffic? If you do it that way, doesn’t that give an unfair advantage to content posted in January?
After looking at the statistics, I decided to pick the top posts by traffic with a weight based on the date. If a post was dated later in the year, it received a slightly higher weight to equal things out.
The 14 Top Original Posts
In reverse chronological order, here are the top 14 original posts of 2014:
Dec 22, 2014: 50 Things to Drop Before the New Year
Nov 25, 2014: How to Live a Life of Thankfulness
Nov 17, 2014: Assume the Positive
Sep 29, 2014: Why Standing Out is More Important than Ever
Sep 25, 2014: 11 Leadership Qualities of Nelson Mandela
Aug 18, 2014: Leading With Others in Mind
Jul 28, 2014: 4 Ways to Get Appreciated at Work
Jun 11, 2014: Leading with No
May 10, 2014: 9 Leadership Lessons from Mom
Apr 24, 2014: The 3 Most Limiting Words
Apr 19, 2014: 7 Characteristics Leaders Share With Peeps
Apr 16, 2014: Selling to the C-Suite
Mar 12, 2014: The Price of Right
Feb 12, 2014: The Outs and Ins of Employee Loyalty
And the most popular guest post of the year is from March and was written by the very talented Thai Nguyen:
- Mar 6, 2014: 3 Toxic Habits That Will Cripple Your Productivity
My mission for this blog remains the same: to have a place to rant about whatever I want! (Ahem! Let me try that again.) It’s all about leadership insights, ideas, and information that will make us all better leaders. Whether through more productive meetings, healthier living, better use of social media and technology, deeper friendships or strategic vision and execution, I hope you find it a useful resource. I’d love to hear your ideas for future posts or the direction for Leadership Insights.
Thank You
I especially want to thank you for reading and a special thanks for those who have taken the time to comment and share these posts. For years, I would read blogs and never comment. When I started to participate, it was amazing how different of an experience it was. I began to develop relationships and get to know people on a deeper level. Try it – consistent sharing and commenting will likely help others as you share your own experience.
I wish you a happy and successful 2015!
