Maybe it’s happened to you: You have a vision of what you want to accomplish. You begin to tackle the job. Suddenly, hours have flown by and you’re astonished by what you’ve achieved. When work is connected to what we deeply desire, we can tap into energy and creativity we don’t even know we have. […]
Change Your Focus, Change Your Energy
Last week Margie and I spent a few days down in the Bahamas. During a conversation with the general manager of the hotel, we learned their buildings had sustained quite a lot of damage as a result of Hurricane Irma in 2017. His story of how the staff and management worked together to get things […]
Creating Leadership Ripples
For good or bad, our behavior as leaders ripples throughout an organization. Examples of bad leadership behavior negatively affecting organizations are all too easy to cite. In the early 2000s, the criminal behavior of Enron executives caused thousands of employees to lose their jobs and led to the dissolution of Arthur Andersen, one of the […]
Be an Agile Leader
In business today, there’s a growing trend toward agile leadership: a focus on fast decision making, short-term goals, and the empowerment of individuals. What began as a leadership approach confined to IT departments—business units that must respond quickly to rapidly changing technology—has become a way of life for leaders generally. Today, it’s not just IT […]
Are You Too Attached to Outcome?
I’ve often said that golf is an acronym for Game of Life First. I certainly proved that when I recently tried to qualify for the Golden Seniors team at my local country club. In golf, as in life, you get good breaks you deserve and you get good breaks you don’t deserve. You get bad breaks […]
When Is It Time for a Career Coaching Conversation?
My wife, Margie, says managers have three roles—doing their own job, working with people to help them develop and accomplish their current goals, and talking with people about their career aspirations. The third role Margie cites is one that is often either forgotten or squeezed in at the end of an annual performance review meeting. […]
Ask Empowering Questions
Most of us—even millennials—have a history of working under guidance and control at school and in our workplaces. Therefore, we tend to think of authority as external rather than internal. The following questions are all too familiar to us: At school: “What does the teacher want me to do to get good grades?” At work: […]
The Unforgettable Herb Kelleher
Last Thursday, we lost probably the finest corporate leader I have known in my leadership development career: Herb Kelleher, cofounder and longtime CEO and president of Southwest Airlines. Not only was Herb the visionary who created the model for a low-fare, customer-first airline, he believed every executive is only as good as his or her people. […]
New Year, New Goals: Don’t Go It Alone!
The New Year is fast approaching and here it comes again: New Year’s resolution time. Have you ever made New Year’s resolutions you didn’t keep? My experience is that all of us have had good intentions we didn’t follow through on over the years. We usually start out enthusiastic about the change but after a […]
What’s Your Leadership Point of View?
Margie and I recently spent a wonderful weekend teaching our “Determining Your Leadership Point of View” class at the University of San Diego. It’s part of the Master of Science in Executive Leadership (MSEL) degree program offered by USD in partnership with our company. I often start off training sessions with managers by asking: “How […]
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