How do your celebrations display your organizational values?
You can’t build a great team if you don’t know who keeps coming up with all those great ideas.
The entire team suffers when the leader’s emotional and physical energy hits the “red bar.”
When you cross the line into exaggeration or hyperbole, your leadership is facing significant risks.
What you believe as a leader will ultimately determine who you become as a leader.
The idea of the “fearless leader” owes more to myth than it does to leadership reality.
Some of the worst leadership decisions take place simply because the wrong person made the decision.
Leaders solve problems. But to become more effective, you likely need to overcome the biggest problem-solving problem in leadership.
To introduce significant change, leaders must know when and how to cash in their “change chips.”
Leaders must be able to end their day, look back, and know with certainty whether or not this was a good leadership day.
If you want to see your strategic plan drive new growth, you need to weed out the ideas that just don’t belong.
Today, I want to ask you a very different leadership question: Is your soul in a better place today than it was a year ago?
Aspiring for “excellence” can lead to an inspiring environment of achievement. But it can also lead to a neurotic atmosphere of fear.
In order to maximize leadership effectiveness, there are a number of disciplines that must be mastered.
Leadership impact happens when you maximize your time, energy and focus on areas that matter the most, and minimize your time on lesser concerns.
Your best leadership will always flow when you avoid the emotional extremes.
As a leader, playing the "If just one person" card is one of the weakest ways to justify a decision. It shows that you are holding a weak hand.
In leadership, there's nothing quite like proven, reliable experience. But if you're not careful, all that experience can slide into nothing more than tired staleness.
The idea that there is such thing as a "team decision" is one of the biggest myths in leadership.
