Simplify Leadership and Focus on What’s Essential
Guest Post by Bill Treasurer Leadership: It’s amazing how complicated leadership “experts” have made the topic. I know because I am one of them. I am a senior ranking officer in what can only be called the Legion of Leadership Complexifiers (the LLC). We members of...
Go For the Gold! 8 Tips to Create The Future You Desire
Positive thinking can do wonders for your attitude. But it's not enough to get you where you want to go. Instead of thinking positively about being great, imagine what great looks like. Visualize a picture of the end-result. Create a picture in your mind of the future...
The Space Between Supervising Closely and Delegating
Most of us know what Supervising Closely looks like. It’s doing things like: Setting goals. Telling what needs to be done. Explaining how to do it. Setting timelines. Checking progress. Providing frequent feedback. And most of us...
Introverts: 6 Ways to Maximize Your Natural Strengths
Guest Post by Jennifer B. Kahnweiler I am delighted to host this guest post by my colleague Jennifer Kahnweiller in celebration of the launch of her excellent new book Quiet Influence: The Introvert"s Guide to Making a Difference. Jennifer is recognized...
The 6 Benchmarks of High Performance Teams
In 1996, 51% of US employees were reported to be members of team. By 2006, it had increased to 84%. As our world becomes more complex, the need for teams will continue to grow. Understanding the characteristics of effective teams gives you a target to shoot for and...
Why My “5 Around” Group is Important to Me and Why You Should Start One
I just arrived in Sarasota, Florida for my 5 Around Retreat. Twenty-three years ago, we began meeting as a group of high level executives and consultants with the intent of using each other as resources to address…
A flawed, even fatal, strategy: Leaders who make all the decisions
Guest Post by Dennis Bakke “The meanest company in America," Businessweek called Dish Network in a scathing feature last month. What struck me most after reading the article was the description of co-founder Charlie Ergen’s management style as “pounding people into...
What I Wish I Knew as a CEO That I Learned Later in HR
I first became aware of Les Hayman in July 2012 when I read his excellent guest post for Gurprriet Siingh – "Transforming HR – How a CEO did it." Les was uniquely qualified to write this post. Having served as Chairman and CEO of SAP EMEA (Europe, ME, and Africa)...
Let’s Stop Confusing Cooperation and Teamwork with Collaboration
Often the words collaboration, coordination, and cooperation are used to describe effective teamwork. But they are not the same, and when we use these words interchangeably, we dilute their meaning and diminish the potential for creating powerful, collaborative...
Embrace Struggle as an Art to be Mastered
Guest post by Steven Snyder Leadership is often a struggle. Yet we can be brainwashed by western culture into thinking that struggle is inherently bad, a stigma that gets in the way when we find ourselves facing difficult or challenging times. Fears take over,...
How To Answer a Wake Up Call
Everyone gets a wake up call at some point.The question is: how are you going to answer yours? Here are four tips:
Celebrating the 2nd Anniversary of My Blog
Two years ago, as I sat down to write my first blog post, I found myself at a loss for where to start. As a focusing activity, I decided to write the purpose of my blog. It was quite helpful, and I ended up making that the topic of my first post: The Answer to What is...