Baggage barricades your future. Leadership baggage includes past: Disappointment with others. Unresolved conflict. Broken relationships. Personal failure. Failed plans. Financial frustrations and business setbacks. Releasing baggage is like cutting sandbags from balloons. In,… Continue reading
Struggle begins with your first gasp for breath and ends with your last. Leaders struggle. Wise leaders expose struggle wisely. Leaders struggle with: Loneliness. Humility. Certainty. Image. Patience. Serving and self-interest. Authenticity and honesty.… Continue reading
Image source by George Hodan Pretending you have it together indicates you don’t. Pretending perpetuates problems, propagates failures, and strengthens stress. Worse yet, … Leaders who pretend lose themselves, bit by bit. Bill… Continue reading
Unable to choose is unable to move. Choices enable movement. Unable to choose is another way of saying stuck. Successful leaders make decisions. Everyone who’s stuck lives with choices waiting to be made.… Continue reading
When Vicki Stanford, Director of the Speakers Bureau for The Ken Blanchard Companies, invited me to send a video for one of their webcasts, I sent this video on Un-Leaderlike Moments. It’s how I’m solving… Continue reading
Image source by Petr Kratochvil I called a person to confront an awkward leadership blunder. Mistakes aren’t the issue; what you do with them is. 8 wrong approaches to mistakes that matter: Mad Monkey approach: Jumping… Continue reading
