Leadership Crossroads
Everyone deserves a good leader. And every leader arrives at a crossroad formed at the intersection of three vital components of any business or endeavor, the intersection of people, purpose, and performance. Choices made at this crossroad determine outcome,...
Affirmation: The Motivation Multiplier
We can only be as effective as the feedback we receive from others, especially our leaders/managers. Of course, we give ourselves constant feedback usually in the negative form. Everyone struggles with doubt, uncertainty, and fear when it comes to our perception of...
The Long Game
47858553 - overworked exhausted businessman writes with a typewriter The landscape of leadership is littered with the mentally burned out, relationally poor, and physically worn down. Being overworked, overcommitted, and running on empty is the norm. “After this next...
What If I Fail?
An executive in a Fortune 500 company is put in charge of a new product that completely fails. Afterward, he meets with the CEO certain it is his last day at work. He makes no excuses and says, “I realize due to this failure you’ll be wanting me to step down.” To his...
Has Technology Hijacked Your Life? (and how to get it back)
The rate of technology advancement is at hyper speed in the 21st Century. One prediction indicates the 21st century will not see 100 years of progress, but the equivalent of 20,000 years. Buckle Up! We are enjoying this burst of tech progress in so many wonderful...
Leverage Tension to Build Trust
As a coach, I have a “behind the curtain” view into organizations and relationships. Repeatedly, I have observed a common behavior in life and work: people do not like conflict and will avoid having conversations to address the issues creating tension. Instead, they...
How’s Your “Trust” Fund?
Our world is languishing from the lack of trust in leaders. Just as an earthquake shakes the land beneath our feet, events in 2017 uncovered deep fractures shaking the foundation of trust in leaders from every arena: government, business, media, and entertainment....
Declutter, Delete, Upgrade
56272613 - gesture of a hand finger pressing delete on a laptop keyboard Last November, I was frowning at the shrinking storage space on my less than one-year-old MacBook Pro and muttering, “How did all this stuff get here?” My IT specialist, aka, my wife, exclaimed,...