Leadership Lesson: Instead of hard-charging at their goal(s), anyone who is working on getting better and improving themselves should tackle them tactically in a focused manner by considering all their resources.
Here we are in a new year — again!
Is it my advanced age, or do the years just seem to pass us by faster? It feels like it…
Leadership Lesson: Our differences – even the ones we believe set us apart in an adverse way – can be harnessed into great self-awareness about where we stand and how we can get better moving forward.
We’re all so different. And most of us know it, feel it, and sense it.
But do we appreciate it?…
Comedy is Setting People at EaseComedy is Having a StyleComedy Can Be a Defense MechanismComedy is Paying Attention to DetailComedy is Knowing Your Audience
Comedy is Gauging Your Audience
Aside from considering in advance what the audience needs or would like to see and hear, comedians need to understand how their material is working…
Leadership Lesson: Connecting the dots across areas of life can help provide perspective on how we can further develop ourselves and enhance our performance. Here are the connections between comedy and leadership.
I love a good laugh. To me, it can be refreshing and satisfying, knocking you out of what might be the monotony of a bland environment or the energy drain…
Leadership Lesson: Acknowledging the separation between who you’ve been and what you’ve done in the past, and how you plan to build upon that going forward, allows you to track, assess, and strengthen your development and growth.
The dog days of summer are a distant memory. The Halloween season is upon us, with the holiday season around the corner, and the new year not too…
Leadership Lesson: Aside from protecting followers from outside forces, intrusions, and obstacles, leaders should also protect followers from the many ways they may limit, do in, and derail themselves.
I recently came across a graphic on Instagram that simply stated Leadership = Protection. In the caption below the illustration, the account asked Are you protecting your followers? Are you protecting your leaders? and then subsequently concluded A true leader…
Leadership Lesson: There can be no growth or development forward if you’re tolerating too much, unwisely using your precious resources, including energy and reputation, to hold things together or keep appearances.
There’s just too much that can go sideways then drag you down if you put up with too much BS in your life and work.
In so many words that’s how I’ve responded to high school students when they’ve asked…
Leadership Lesson: We should all become aware of how and to what extent we are the obstacle in the path of progress of our mission, group, or organization.
“Lead, or get out of the way,” was a recent rallying cry used at a gathering of political figures at the national level. I won’t go into who…
Leadership Lesson: You can’t be the best version of yourself while doing the same things you’ve always done and expecting a different result. Don’t be insane.
In talking to clients in coaching sessions, when it comes to development and improvement of any kind, there are so many reasons we (yes, “we”) don’t do what we should do — even more, why we don’t…
Leadership Lesson: Getting in the habit of telling others what you think about them (before it’s too late) can provide a sense of fulfillment in yourself, along with both confirmation and encouragement in them about the value of what they’re doing, who they are, and how they impact you.
No, this isn’t some veiled attempt at convincing you to take out the competition in order to…
Leadership Lesson: Everyone should have partners and colleagues with whom they can share ideas, in order to form a development ecosystem that allows them to harness, reshape, and finalize their steps forward.
What I always try to get people I coach – or anyone else for that matter who seeks to get better at what they do – to do is consider what resources they…
Leadership Lesson: We may not be able to control all the factors in the environments of work, business, and life, but understanding what we can control and what we can’t will help us provide the best experience for those around us.
The best companies know success is about the experience the customer has, takes away, and tells others about.
Google introduced the world to, and continues to operate, a…
Leadership Lesson: How you sit back, look for and see the process of leadership and how it unrolls from within you, is important to understanding your path of leadership – tracing it from the internal to the external — and the way you live it, demonstrate it, and carry it out.
I recently ran a workshop at Stanley Black &…
Leadership Lesson: Because we do our best work when we have balance, we always need to be aware of all sides of a approach, both the emotional side that gives us rise and pushes us forward, and the pragmatic side that keeps us level or brings us back down to earth when necessary.
A few months ago,…
Leadership Lesson: In the right fashion, and when appropriate for the environment, a leader should always make sure people are self-aware, and improving and refining their tactics, even in the moments following a great win or success.
As much as I love and watch soccer and, much more, live for the high-stakes championship games,
A few days ago, I had written about how an entrepreneur had shared with me the bout of loneliness they felt in their solo business journey. #Loneliness seems to be the growing norm. #Society needs to slow down. #mentalhealth #community #relationships ow.ly/YdRI30qbJb1
reply
retweet
favorite
