Independent business blogs are blogs that aren’t supported by an organization like a magazine, newspaper, company, or business school. Those people provide lots of great content, but they don’t need any additional exposure. In this post, every week, I bring you posts of quality from excellent bloggers that don’t get as much publicity.

This week, I’m pointing you to posts by Lolly Daskal. Scott Mabry, Julie Winkle Giulioni, Jesse Lyn Stoner, and Alli Polin.

From Lolly Daskal: The Most Challenging Leadership Skill of All

“There are a lot of skills that make up good leadership, but there is one quality that is possibly the most challenging, that is self-awareness, because self-awareness requires you to focus on yourself—not the easiest thing to do for an outwardly focused leader.”

From Scott Mabry: The Power of Intentional Reflection – Six Questions to Shape Your Story

“Another work day ends and I have a vague idea that it was perhaps a good day. Or maybe not so good. I got some things done, plowed through meetings, pushed the rock a little farther up the hill.”

From Julie Winkle Giulioni: Rethinking Remote Relationships

“According to a VitalSmarts survey of 1153 global workers reported in Harvard Business Review (April 2018), remote employees feel left out and disadvantaged as a result of their status. And it goes far beyond ‘out of sight, out of mind.’”

From Jesse Lyn Stoner: 7 Tips to Move From Vision to Reality

“Vision alone is not enough. Vision requires action. Vision without action is nothing more than a daydream.”

From Alli Polin: 25 Ways You Can Edit Your Leadership Like a Novelist

“If you’re someone who’s happy with ‘good enough,’ keep things as-is. Then again, if you want to be a person who is a role model, in demand, and the best you can be, that requires honesty and a willingness to let go of the old to embrace the new. Ready to edit your leadership? Here are 25 powerful questions to get you started that I’ve learned from a decade of coaching and putting in the hard work to edit my novel.”

That’s it for this week’s selections from independent business blogs. If you liked this piece you may enjoy my curation posts on this blog. Every Tuesday, “Leaders and Strategies in Real Life” helps you learn about leadership by studying what real leaders do. On Fridays you can wrap up your week with “Weekend Leadership Reading” consisting of choice articles on hot leadership topics culled from the business schools, the business press and major consulting firms.

How I Select Posts for this Midweek Review

The five posts I select to share in my Midweek Review of the Independent Business Blogs are picked from a regular review of about sixty blogs I check daily and an additional twenty-five or so that I check occasionally. Here’s how I select the posts you see in this review.

They must be published within the previous week.

They must support the purpose of the blog: to help leaders at all levels do a better job and lead a better life.

They must be from an independent business blog.

As a general rule, I only select posts that stand on their own, no selections from a series.

Also as a general rule, I do not select posts that are either a book review or a book report.

I reserve the right to make exceptions to the above.

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