Do you lead by email? Get off your butt!
Twitter, facebook, instant messaging, webex, email, yada, yada, yada. What’s next? Who knows? But really, who cares anyways? These are all tools…
Le Tour de France: Team rivalry or teamwork?
Professional cycling is a fascinating sport. I really don’t know much about it, but for the past 8 years I have found…
The 3 Critical Ingredients to Making Values Work
How many SOPs does your organization have? Do you have SOPs on how to write an SOP? What core values guide the…
Are You Modeling the Way?
Have you had a chance to read The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner? It’s a bit dry, but provides great stories…
Get with it! What you say matters. People remember!
I recently conducted an investigation for a client who had received information that a senior executive was not providing the level of…
Consistency and Curiosity: A Balancing Act of Leadership Characteristics (Part 4)
This is the fourth of four posts about the sometimes opposing characteristics that are required of leaders. In Part 1, I talked…
Balancing Experience and Possibilities
I turned 40 this past Saturday and was enlightened by a number of experiences. My Uncle Mike sent me an email that…
Demanding and Empathetic: A Balancing Act of Leadership Characteristics (Part 3)
In my two previous posts, I mentioned that leadership often requires the ability to balance sometimes opposing characteristics. In Part 1, I…
Strength and Vulnerability: A Balancing Act of Leadership Characteristics (Part 2)
In my recent blog post, Courage and Humility: A Balancing Act of Leadership Characteristics, I mentioned that leadership often requires a unique…
Do You Have the Courage to Lead?
Climbing at 19,000′ in Ecuador Just because you have the title of “leader” doesn’t make you are a leader. And just because…