Hate, Anger, Blame
If we react to what we see happening around us with hate, anger, or blame (no matter how righteous), we will only prolong what we’re …
Leading
Tips and Insights about influencing people toward shared goals.
Generate Results in Meetings
We might push, posture, protect, or prattle to get results in a meeting. Or we can let go, listen, learn, and lean in. Which aprroach …
Others’ Behavior
We spend way too much time and energy trying to get others to behave so that we feel better. Far better is to find a …
Pump
Destructive leadership rations energy. Productive leadership pumps energy into everyone freely. To share so much, we first have to find and tap for ourselves a …
Don’t Look Back
The sages tell us that all our power is in the present. Any time we spend regretting, blaming, or trying to figure out stuff in …
We Have the Tools
The way out of this mess is not argument, denial, criticism, or righteousness. That only stirs up their defenses and prolongs the pain. We need …
To Achieve, Believe
Sure, we need vision, strategy, and execution. But these alone won’t do. No vision, strategy, or execution survives its first encounter with reality. To navigate …
Fair Enough
Evidence seems to say that we get what we believe, not what we merely fear, love, wish for, or even work hard to get. Fair …
It Only Takes One
It only takes one person to rise above the drama. It only takes one person to remember the big picture. It only takes one person …
The Expedient Route Often Isn’t
Things done under pressure often backfire. That person we urgently needed to hire, the deal we really needed to make, and the strategy we didn’t …