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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 ...
Progress over Perfection (5 inputs from this year with a payoff in the next)
“It’s a mistake to dislike what you’re reaping when you haven’t evaluated what you’ve sown.” ~ Attribution: Mark Cotter Last week I wrote Failu ...
Failure IS an option. (Five Personal Reflections on 2018)
Being wise is more important than being right. Leadership is far more paradox than it is perfection. A leaders goal is to be authentic, not perfect. T ...
Creating Cadence: Leadership Longevity
Leadership becomes great when we see our skills as talents. Given to us. For others. Leadership is fundamentally stewardship, isn't it? We steward who ...
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 ...
Skills Creating: Becoming Better
Leadership growth is first about who you become and is then translated into what you do.
Story Telling: An Empowering Narrative
When you tell your story in advance you can lead towards it and live into it. It's like you are first the author, then the central character of the be ...
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 ...
Putting Courage In
Courage is what great leadership adds to talented people.
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.