That issue you’re struggling with this week, whether it’s with a peer, an employee, your child or other significant relationship…take a step back and ask this question: Was that an incident, or a pattern?
Great hearts make bad decisions, and bad hearts make great decisions. Neither is perfect, and both can change. Before you decide to [...]
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When leaders try to get their entire team on board an passionate about a vision, it’s easy to find the broken link. By broken, I mean the person who’s broken inside, who’s still territorial, dealing with pride. The person who feels threatened by growth. The person concerned with who gets the credit or how the [...]
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It’s so common, unfortunately, for leaders to be vague and unwilling to be direct, specific and intentional with their questions on the front end of an action step, and it usually leads to significantly more pain on the back end.
Here’s what I mean: When you ask someone to take action on something, consider your discomfort [...]
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Most conflict seems to occur when context is absent. I don’t think you understand my perspective…you don’t really understand why this is important to me…Don’t you see what I see? What was he thinking? What did he mean by that?Â
Most of the time, what our reactions are communicating, during a conflict, is that we don’t [...]
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Take 3 minutes to consider this idea, and I bet it’ll change your entire culture in 6 months. Regular  staff meetings still seem to be sacred cows in organizations. What I’ve observed over the years, but especially in today’s fast-paced, information overloaded, message over-saturated day we work in, is this: Very few things warrant a [...]
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Every week, at least once–sometimes on multiple occasions–leaders are faced with a decision, in front of an open window of opportunity, to jump or stay in the room they’re in.
Windows of opportunity open up all the time in life. Great leaders (in business, at home, in communities) have spent painstaking time and energy promoting the [...]
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Over the years, from non-profit organizations to large corporations to small 3-person businesses, I’ve witnessed an amazing phenomenon that seems to universally hold true across the board: Internally, you’ll find a direct correlation between the organization’s culture and the quantity & length of their meetings. In general, teams who meet for long period of time, [...]
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