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Tough-minded Leadership with Tenderhearted Skills
In business today, every leader, every boss, every chief executive officer, wants their company to be successful and so they advocate for tough-minded attitudes and strong-willed personalities. And in...
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The Resilient Leader
James Stockdale, best known as a 1992 independent candidate for vice president of the US, was a highly decorated veteran and former prisoner of war. In 1960 a Stanford philosophy professor, a military...
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Leadership Reflection: The Strength to Change Ourselves
He was an elderly man whose face had life written all over it. He sat drinking tea as he reflected on his life: When I was young, I was full of fire and I wanted to awaken everyone. I prayed for...
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Step Aside And Watch Others Take The Lead
A world-famous violinist once said after a successful performance of Beethoven’s violin concerto: “I have a beautiful score, a lovely violin, and a very good bow. When I put these three together I...
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Leadership Rituals that Make Each Day Count
In the words of Napoleon Hill, it is not what you are going to do but what you are doing today that counts. You can learn everything you need to learn in order to achieve anything, but you can never...
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Good Luck or Bad Luck? Who Knows!
There is a story of a farmer who used an old horse to till his fields. One day, the horse escaped into the hills. When the farmer’s neighbors sympathized with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer...
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Make A Difference: Lead With A Noble Heart
Many of us lead, but not many of us lead with a noble heart. There is a well-known anecdote related by Tom Peters about a hospital in the US that treats cancer. During a series of staff interviews, an...
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Lead From Where You Are And With All That You Have
How many times have you heard yourself say If only I had the right role … the right job … the right business … the right opportunity, then I would step into my leadership. But that role, position,...
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Why Do We Have To Make Others Wrong To Be Right?
People sometimes have to make others wrong to be right. They do it not to be rude, not to be mean, not to be hateful but because they fear their own bad feelings. Simply put, when we think we’re right...
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Ground Yourself in the Power of Your Purpose
A long time ago, the trees went out to anoint a king. They first said to the olive tree, “Reign over us.” The olive tree answered, “And stop producing my rich oil? I will not.” Then the trees asked the...
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19 Annoying Habits You Must Break To Be a Better Leader
If you don’t break your annoying habits you will never become the leader you want to be. We all tend to judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions, but one of the things required of...
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The Best Free Leadership Advice You’ll Ever Get
If you’re like most leaders, you’re always looking for ways to improve your leadership. People are constantly asking me what they can do to make their leadership exceptional. They usually expect the...
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How to Be a Real Leader And Great Manager
From time to time through the years, I’ve written on the difference between leadership and management. I am revisiting the subject now because it’s not enough to understand that leadership and...
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To Pretend Or Not To Pretend
“Pretend until you become it, pretend until you believe it.” What does it mean to pretend? To pretend is to THINK something you may not yet have the language for. To pretend is to FEEL something you...
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Leading With Questions
As leader we are sometimes expected to know all the answers—sometimes even before the questions are known. But buying into that expectation means that we risk sacrificing the very thing we need to lead...
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Questions That Make A Difference
As one year comes to close and another begins, we are drawn to making new plans, setting new goals, and assessing whether we have made a difference. For many of us, that assessment begins with...
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Stop! What Is Not Working
Life is always telling us what we need to START doing. But it does not concentrate as much on the things we need to STOP doing. We use all kinds of strategies to stop our life, love, and leadership and...
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The Unexpected Quality Every Successful Leader Needs
It’s never hard to find a discussion—in this blog and lots of other places, online and off—of the skills that are required for good leadership. Among the most important is one that surprisingly is...
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5 Easy Ways to Escape The Impostor Syndrome Trap
Imposter syndrome is a common psychological phenomenon in which you feel that you’re the only person in the group who doesn’t have it together. You feel you don’t deserve the good things that have...
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The Unexpected Quality Every Successful Leader Needs
It’s never hard to find a discussion—in this blog and lots of other places, online and off—of the skills that are required for good leadership. Among the most important is one that surprisingly is...
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