Pause Before You Plan
This is a lovely moment. The darkest day of the darkest week of the year in the northern hemisphere. It is the moment before the balance shifts and light begins to overtake darkness. On the winter solstice, the rhythm of the sun pauses as it changes direction...
How To Become Your Own Successor
Guest Post by Bruce Rosenstein Most people are familiar with succession planning for an organization. Who is going to follow you as a leader once it is time for you to be replaced, and what must be done to prepare that person? Succession planning is undeniably...
The Images We Hold Create Our Reality
When I ask people to describe what it would look like if there were world peace, it's hard for them to conjure up specific images or descriptions. However, they easily provide vivid descriptions of what a post-World War III world would look like. All they have to do...
Mother Goose Management
Leadership can be as simple as Mother Goose Management. Here are 6 lessons you learned a long time ago, that when applied, will make you a better leader. 1. The lesson of Alice and the Cheshire Cat: If you don’t know where you’re going, it doesn’t matter what path...
How to Delegate So the Gain Outweighs the Pain
If you rarely delegate, you are an individual contributor. It doesn’t matter what your title is. Leaders who don’t delegate are not leading. Not delegating hurts. It hurts YOU. It’s not possible to do it all alone. You will get overloaded, stressed, and will...
What Business Are You Really In? Grace Hearth Knows
Is it possible to earn a living, have fun and make a difference in the world? Jocelyn Jackson and Keri Keifer have figured out how. Their business Grace Hearth might be considered a catering company – they cater all sizes of events, from weddings and meetings to small...
5 Ways Millennials Will Shape the Future of Work
Guest post by Dan Schawbel Millennials, also known as Generation Y, will comprise 75 percent of the global workforce by 2025. They are the most educated, most diverse and the most connected generation of our lifetime, and they are poised to make a major impact on...
Stop Waiting for Someone Else to Provide Leadership
The assumption that change has to start at the top is wrong. You don't have to wait for senior leaders to make it a better place. Managers don’t have to wait for senior management to start a process of organizational revitalization. ~Michael Beer The first step in...
Prepare for Creative Tension or It May Cloud Your Vision
The team was excited and energized. They had created a vision that would lead to the breakthrough they had been looking for. They set goals and identified next steps, roles and communications. They had a great plan and the means to achieve it. All set, right? Wrong....
Ten Tips for Delegating – The Best Time Management Tool
Jerome said his biggest problem was time management. He was overloaded, deadlines were getting missed, and he was stressed. Managing his team was his biggest time drain. "When they ask me questions, I get stuck spending time with them instead of doing my own work. And...
Three Counterintuitive Tips To Enhance Your Creativity
Guest Post by David Burkus We live and work in a world of complex problems, and few people would argue that we can solve those problems without a lot of creativity. Creativity is the seed of innovation and, in the business world, innovation is the seed of competitive...
How Important Is Vision in Leadership? The Question is the Answer
When I published my Value of Vision series, I had no idea I had done something unusual. I am concerned about the current lack of interest around vision in leadership, and I had hoped that publishing a series of views from a variety of experts might help boost the...