Confidence Isn’t Competence

The person who sounds smart doesn’t always know the most.

Confidence is performance. Competence is capacity.

Confidence is obvious. Competence is demonstrated over time.

Confidence gets attention. Competence creates value.

Insights into the idea that confidence isn’t competence.

Avoid Failure by Imagining It

Certainty blinds you.

You need confidence to lead, but your best idea might be a mistake.

Avoid failure by imagining it.

Discover four practical ways to spot trouble, challenge assumptions, and prevent mistakes before they happen.

Your Service into Their Commitment

You want commitment. Your team wants to know whose side you’re on.

Self-serving leaders build self-protective teams. What helps people stop holding back?

Discover five ways to turn service into commitment.

Culture in Two Words

Culture in Two Words

Strip away the slogans, values statements, and culture initiatives and two things remain.

Get these two right and culture gets stronger.

Miss the connection between them and even good intentions work against you.

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How to Be Helped

“Over the years I learned how to be helped.” Donald Hall in Work Life.

I want to be the guy who helps, not the old man who needs help.

But, if you live long enough, you will learn to be helped.

Helping makes us feel important. Being helped makes others feel important.

How to Turn Curiosity into Insight

Curiosity is dangerous to stale thinking.

It unsettles assumptions, exposes blind spots, and makes easy answers uncomfortable.

Wise leaders don’t use questions to sound smart. They use curiosity to inspire insight.

Here are: 7 Ways to Inspire Insight with Curiosity