Powerful Leaders vs. Forceful Leaders
We tend to confuse power with force. Force makes things happen or makes people do what we want. Force generates and must constantly counter resistance. …
Leading
Tips and Insights about influencing people toward shared goals.
What Raising Our Hand Implies
Of course, raising our hand to be a leader means we are also raising our hand to develop ourselves into leaders. And this means becoming …
Leadership is Hard. Let’s Go!
If you don’t like choosing between horrible and cataclysmic, don’t become a CEO. -Ben Horowitz No, we leaders (not just CEO but at all levels, …
Are You Tapping the Fear or the Spark?
There is a fear within each of us. Tap it and you’ll get hurried, harried, and short-lived results. Further attempts to mine this source become …
We Must Get Good at Politics
Show me an organization rife with politics and I’ll show your an organization where the boss hates politics. Politics is the system of self-promotion that …
The Right-Wrong Trap
We fall into the Right-Wrong Trap whenever we try to convince someone we are right. If we fall into this trap, we will have a …
Nothing More Powerful
Need someone to change for the better? Nothing is more powerful than believing that they can and telling them so. In your corner, Mike PS: …
Giving Feedback Well
One of the hardest parts of being a leader is pointing out how someone’s behaviors are doing damage or how their results are lacking. Here …
How to Help When Team Members Struggle
We all struggle from time to time for all sorts of reasons. Though most leaders aren’t trained as therapists, we are all very well trained …
Door Number 2
Even if we do it behind their backs, people can tell when we have judged, criticized, or found fault in them. They will inevitably react. …