5 Powers of Vulnerability

Vulnerability restores the vitality that faking drains.

Everyone wears a mask when leaders aren’t vulnerable.

Make learning more important than looking good. Replace perfectionism with progress.

Move from who to blame to what are we learning?

Shift from proving to improving. Here’s how!

12 Steps to Unstoppable Potential

If you want to teach people, give them a reason to need a lesson.

Learning is the engine of progress. Stagnation kills potential. When learning stops, growth stops. Talent without development leads to frustration, disengagement, and missed opportunity.

Build future-ready people by making development necessary.

Hybrid Work isn’t Working

The Proximity Principle: People tend to serve people they see, touch, and spend time with.

What you don’t see seems easy. You assume others have it easy. People who aren’t seen often feel undervalued.

Hybrid work makes detachment easy.

Potential expands when you connect to real people doing real work.

How to make hybrid work, work?

How Incompetent Leaders Lead Change

Incompetent leaders approach change the same way a toddler approaches finger painting. Enthusiastically! Recklessly! And with no thought of the mess.

Poorly managed transformation is a spaghetti mess. Incompetent leaders are confusing, inconsistent, disconnected, and chaos on wheels.

Start by doing the opposite of incompetent leaders.

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Unlock the Heart of Leadership

Fear rules in heartless organizations.

Hiding your heart creates distance.

Leadership is influence. Influence requires connection. Heart is the fiber of connection.

Success without heart is failure in disguise.

How to unlock the heart of leadership…

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Accountability Without Authority

How would you hold people accountable if you didn’t have authority? Don’t demand what must be given.

Coercion doesn’t produce ownership.

Accountability isn’t the cure for low commitment; it’s an expression of high commitment.

This post shows you how to develop healthy accountability practices.