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Unfit, Unworthy, Unsuited? At some point in your leadership journey, you will find yourself in a position where those words start to bubble up from inside and you wonder: Can I do this? What is happening? Maybe I’m not cut out for this? What went wrong? When will “they” realize I’m just a fraud? If [...]
Are You Serious About Team? If you want to achieve sustainable results over time, there’s no substitute for a strong, vibrant team. Most leaders give lip service to the concept of teams and will readily nod when asked if teams are important. In my work with leaders, however, the reality is often different…and with good reason. [...]
Reminder: I’m taking your questions and the best one will win a prize – read to the end for details… Got Results? Does your business struggle to stay focused and accomplish the results it exists to achieve? If so, you want to read Karen Martin’s The Outstanding Organization. Martin writes from a simple premise: Chaos [...]
Meals for the Mind Books are food for the mind and soul. Some are empty sugary snacks, some are one-of-a-kind extravagant affairs like a 12 course royal banquet (Drucker’s Management for instance), some are light and nutritious like a good lunch salad. The Character Based Leader: Instigating a leadership revolution one person at a [...]
High Praise? John Miller, author of QBQ – The Question Behind the Question, said that the highest compliment anyone could ever pay him was to say that his material was practical. Practicality, he says, will lead to implementation and change. In that spirit, Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Career Conversations Employees Want by Beverly [...]
Waiting for Help? If we wait on our identified positional leaders (CEOs, Presidents, etc) to do what needs to be done, we will be waiting a very long time. For decades now, people have been suggesting that we need leaders at every level of every organization – whether its a company or our country, positional [...]
Insight Every once in a while you encounter an idea that acts like a new pair of glasses – suddenly you can see the world with clarity you didn’t have a moment before. The subject of today’s book review holds that kind of concept. It is a refreshing and graceful addition to and departure from [...]
Madness For American college basketball fans, March is the holy month when the season culminates in three frenetic weeks of tournaments popularly known as March Madness. The author of the book I’m reviewing today was no stranger to this tournament. In fact, as a basketball coach he and his teams set records no one has [...]
Pick a Corner There’s a quote I heard as a child – I believe it was attributed to Norman Rockwell, but even if in our web-ified age I have been unable to find a source for it. It went something like this: “If everyone picked just one corner of the world and took responsibility for [...]
Leadership? Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, by David Allen is not a book about leadership or management…at least not exactly. Even so, it is a very helpful resource for anyone trying to make a difference. As I mentioned in Simply Your Leadership, you have a finite amount of time and a potentially [...]
