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, …
Leading
Tips and Insights about influencing people toward shared goals.
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. …
A Leadership Power Tool
Often the greatest gifts we can give another is to listen to them. Just listen and give acknowledgments (nods, “yeses,” and occasional brief recaps of …
Control Yields Crappy Results
To get things done consistently well with a team, the correct flow or equation is Trust → Honest Discussion → Real Commitment → True Accountability → Desired …