Ask, Don’t Tell
Tell me the answers, what I should do, what’s right, and you may get my grudging compliance. You certainly will be training me to distrust …
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Are You the Visionary or the Builder?
In his book, The Hard Thing About the Hard Things, Ben Horowitz reminds us that there are two types of leaders. He calls them, appropriately, …
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, …
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 …
Leadership, Sales, Collaboration and Picking a Place for Dinner
Leading, selling, collaborating, and choosing a place to go to dinner with your partner tonight are essentially the same. They all require understanding what the …
Leadership Is Not What We Think It Is
Leadership is not what we usually think it is: Leadership is not being the decider-in-chief. But the leader sometimes needs to make decisions for the group. …
Relentless Architects of Possibility
A leader is the relentless architect of the possibility that others can be. – Benjamin Zander What does all this relentless possibility have to do …
We Change Everything
When we raise our buzz, we can change an encounter, a team meeting, an entire company, or even a life for the better just by …
Good Leadership, Wise Business
The sages tell us that there are only two reactions to anything: fear or love. Nothing else. So if we catch ourselves feeling bad or …