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Leaders, Are You: Tired? Run down? Exhausted? Don’t have energy for important relationships? Can’t hold an idea in your head for more than a moment? If so, you’re not alone. Recently, several leaders from different organizations, with different responsibilities, and personalities have asked me variations on this question: How do you maintain your energy and [...]
Frustration! The team and I had just invested three hours wrestling with significant issues. We defined the criteria that would make for a good decision…we had healthy debate among different opinions…we listened…we looked for alternatives…we considered consequences to the organization…we pushed hard looking for the best answers… And finally we made a decision. Or we [...]
Confusion There are seasons in your leadership where you will feel lost. The path forward isn’t clear. Your team is uncertain, distracted, or lost. You search for the perfect decision, but you can’t find it – there are too many unknowns, too much analysis, no way to know for certain… In times like these your [...]
What Do You Know? Recently a friend of mine hopped on Facebook and asked his friends to recommend a local carpet-cleaning company and a moving company. (There must be a good story there, but that’s not why I bring it up.) Within an hour he had several solid recommendations with one moving company clearly favored [...]
Photo by canopic A recent New York Times article discusses research around “decision-fatigue” – the idea that we have a limited amount of mental energy with which to evaluate information and make decisions. The implications for leaders and managers are significant. Making good decisions requires us to manage this energy or we can easily find [...]
You’ve been given a responsibility. Your deadline is looming, the demands are significant, and you’re not sure how to solve the problem. Alone at your desk, you wonder if you even have it in you to figure this out. Many developing leaders (and not a few veterans) go through these times of anxiety. I have [...]
