Tag Archive: Leadership Development

Focus: 7 Ways to Eliminate Distraction

Distraction is the enemy of life.

Unfocused Leaders are stress filled bags of irritation. A person who rushes to finish one thing so they can do the next thing is dying while they live.

Here are 7 ways to eliminate distraction.

Don’t be a Leader with So Many Ideas

Are you a leader brimming with ideas?

Ideas are like rabbits. Multiplication leads to disease.

The only thing worse than a leader with no ideas is one with too many.

“Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.” Paul Valéry

What if you have too many ideas?

How to Run Strategy Meetings Like a Pro

I’ve attended and led many strategy meetings over the years. Some were a colossal waste of time.

Here are 7 ways leaders screw up strategy meetings AND 10 ways to run strategy meetings like a pro.

Porter said, “The essence of strategy is choosing what not to do.”

Overcoming the 4 Lies of Status

Status is more than the way others see you. It governs the way you see the world. It’s a lens you use to see yourself. Loss of standing assaults your confidence. You wonder who you are.

Find answers to the deceptions of status on this post.

4 Myths about Coaching You Must Reject

This post confronts common myths about the leader as coach.

Coaching provides people centered approaches to development and results.

“Coaching is the universal language of change and learning.”

Included in this post are coaching tips leaders can use today.

Learn to bring out the best in people, not the worst.

The Goldilocks Paradox

The Goldilocks Paradox says the path rises between too little and too much.

This post explains how to challenge enough and how to coach just the right amount.

People lean toward extremes. We help too much, or we help too little, for example.

4 questions to dance with extremes.