#1. Distill challenges and opportunities into one word. Create focus. All high performance requires focus. Chasing urgencies dilutes success. Choose what matters. Ignore what doesn’t matter. (You can’t have it all. You can’t do it… Continue reading
Rudolph was a treasure waiting to be discovered. Irritants become advantages in the right situation. My impatience irritates a person on my team. (It probably irritates lots of people.) I’ll call him Mr.… Continue reading
Unrealistic kindness and untempered helpfulness result in unreliability. A reliable average leader is more valuable than unreliable top talent. Reliability validates your value. The good news is, reliability doesn’t take talent. Reliability… Continue reading
Failure to bring up disappointing performance is cruel, not compassionate. Apart from intervention, negative trajectory accelerates. When silence is painful, not golden: Silence when performance disappoints prolongs pain, increases stress, and affirms… Continue reading
A chicken without a head is active but not productive. Productivity is about being effective with your time, energy, resources, and talent. Calendar and schedule: Tenaciously manage your time if you ever hope… Continue reading
Frustration with teams and organizations is the result of avoiding questions that many leaders don’t dare to ask. Successful leaders ask forward-facing questions that define a future distinct from the past. 4 backward-facing questions: What’s… Continue reading
