Tough Assignment
You can recover from disaster. The worst situations can be salvaged. You can transform what looks dark, dreary, hopeless, or chaotic. You […]
Category: Leading
Tips and Insights about influencing people toward shared goals.
Choose to Dwell
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare What Will means is that we can choose […]
Statements and Questions
Thinking we have to be strong–or at least to look strong or to look like we know something–we make statements. We make […]
Delegation Fail
Traditional delegation, whether by telling, pleading, bribing, or manipulating, does not work for very long. That’s because our job is not to […]
Change
Change is turbulent. Be clear, direct, and persistent. Change is tough. Be encouraging. Change takes time. Be understanding. Change is complex. Be […]
Get Out of the Weeds
To grow the revenue, outcomes, impact, and relevance of our organizations, we as leaders must get out of the weeds. Wherever we […]
Influence Begins in the Cellar
Our ability to influence (convince, educate, sell, lead) others is directly related to our ability to grow our bonds with them. Like […]
Be The One
While being the one with the answers can be useful, being the one who galvanizes everyone around an idea or direction– even […]
When Context Isn’t Enough
As we saw, you can get people to do more and more of the right things by helping them understand the context: […]
Context
Getting people to do stuff. Sheesh. That’s tough. We try asking, telling, pleading, demanding, yelling, guilting, pushing, and praying. While these methods […]