May 9, 2020February 11, 2021Grows, Hiring, Leading, We Go Beyond (Hiring) The Stars If our strategy is to hire only stars, it will be expensive and we will have a tough time finding people. We […]
June 6, 2017Leading Which Matters More? Question: Which matters more: strong business results or a good team? Answer: Yes. You see, we can build the team and culture […]
May 4, 2017We Tell, Tell, Tell, Yell! Tell, tell, tell, yell. (To which we all respond with hide, fight, complain, and deflect.) Easy but not so effective, is it? […]
January 18, 2017Do, Leading Why We Can’t Mandate Best Practices Sure, when we learn a helpful tool or idea, we want to share it. But we as leaders can’t mandate it. Forcing […]
May 4, 2016Grows, Leading Some Wind In Their Sails When people are down, they can’t be productive and they pull others down with them. Sometimes all they need is some wind in […]
April 13, 2016We The Fundamental Challenge for Teams The fundamental challenge for any team of two or more people is trust. When there is lack of trust, issues about who […]
January 8, 2015We Why We Defend at Work and Why We Shouldn’t Many of our interactions at work are fraught with tension, resistance, and defensiveness. We can tell because of the tightness or numbness […]
July 23, 2014Leading It Probably Is Not a Failure to Execute What we blame on an organization’s inability to execute is often a problem with the management team. Show me an organization that […]
April 22, 2014We What To Do When Things Become Dysfunctional Sometimes, the level of dysfunction in a group situation is so high that logic, best practice, and pretty much all other well-meaning […]
April 13, 2014Leading, We Drop the Weight of Other People’s Problems Sure, conflict arises between team members. In many cases, resolution is quick. Sometimes, though, the conflict gets personal. The affected team members […]