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Possessions of the Soul

The possessions of your soul, beat emotions that you feel, every time. Leading by and through emotions is the hallmark of immature leadership. Mature ...

Pathfinding: Making Progress

Hillel the Elder famously said "If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?" If not now, when? A ...

Sensemaking: Defining Reality

Sensemaking is about finding clarity so you can move forward with confidence. Max DePree says "The first job of a leader is to define reality." (The l ...

The Growth Framework

An experience that delivers true value, embedded transformation and establishes an influential future is what makes the difference in leadership devel ...

Making Leaders

Stamford Leadership Professors Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus captivated me with their book "Leaders - Strategies For Taking Charge" in the nineties. Fo ...

Keeping Trust Human

As we lead people and teams longer trust is becoming more human. More of a relationship to value and appreciate than a line to be above or below. Trus ...

Making Trust AntiFragile

Trust may be vulnerable but must not be weak. Trust must be AntiFragile. Leaders know how to advance trust in adversity, deepen trust from mistakes, a ...

Talk TO and NOT ABOUT

Talking TO and NOT ABOUT is the price of entry for the restoration of trust. Leaders initiate the restoration process in the face of discomfort and ch ...

The Vulnerability of Trust

I lost a personal and professional friendship because I behaved in a way that broke trust. It wasn't intentional. But it was hurtful. It was poor lead ...

The Architecture of Trust

Zig Ziglar is quoted as saying, "If people like you they will listen to you, but if they trust you they will do business with you." Trust is a leaders ...

The Chief Trust Officer

To be followABLE you must be trustABLE. Leaders trade in intangibles, and trust is among the most valuable currency you handle. When you have the trus ...

The Real Book Renaissance

I'll admit to being a book lover (I won't admit to taking a bag of books on my honeymoon though 😉 ) I love owning them, I love reading them and I lov ...

Load and Leverage

Grown up leadership is interdependent leadership. It’s leadership that is mature, robust and leveraged to the point that the members of your tribe kno ...

Chief | Guide | Sensei | Sage

I was sitting with Frank one day testing a statistic I’d read. Frank had been leading for more than forty years and I had learnt that only 20% of lead ...

Leadership Refinements

I have a dysfunctional relationship with cars. On one hand my list of saved cars online consists of everything from luxury dreams to more pragmatic fa ...

A Leadership Sum

“Seventeen of France’s 23 World Cup players are children of first generation migrants” Ishann Tharoor wrote in the piece reflecting on both the multic ...

Making Clarity

Making clarity is a key responsibility of leadership. Stephen is a Senior Executive who was used to taking three weeks to make decisions, slowing down ...

Leader Watching

Leader watching is the purposeful observation of leadership in others so it can become leadership in you.

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