When people look back on your life, what will they see? When you’re dead and gone, what stories will your kids tell about you? What stories will your coworkers tell? How about your bosses? Will they see your disagreement as mischievous or skillful? Will they see your frustration as disruptive......
100% agreement means there’s less than 100% truth. If, as a senior leader, you know there are differing opinions left unsaid, what would you do? Would you chastise the untruthful who are afraid to speak their minds? Would you simply ignore what you know to be true and play Angry......
Anonymous: What do you think we should do next? Me: It depends. How did you get here? Anonymous: Well, we’ve had great success improving on what we did last time. Me: Well, then you’ll likely do that again. Anonymous: Do you think we’ll be successful this time? Me: It depends.......
You’re not missing anything. It’s time to start. Afraid to fail? Start anyway. Don’t have the experience? Well, you won’t be able to say that once you start. Just start. It’s time. Don’t have the money? Start small. And if that won’t work, start smaller. Start small, but start. Worried......
Disagreement is fine as long as it’s founded on mutual respect. There’s no place for violence Both sides don’t have to like each other to work together, but nonviolence must carry the day. Our differences may be significant, but never large enough to justify violence. We have more in common......
I don’t like resolutions, but I do like looking back to assess how spent my time differently over the previous year. Below is a short exercise that could help you get ready for 2021. Below are some questions intended to help you assess how you spent your time differently in......
Leadership development is a good idea in principle, but not in practice. Assessing a person against a list of seven standard competencies does not a leadership development plan make. Nor does a Meyers-Briggs assessment or a strengths assessment. The best way I know to describe the essence of leadership development......
Best practice – a tired recipe you recycle because you think the world is static. Emergent practice – a new way to work created from whole cloth because the context is new. Worst practice – a best practice applied to a world that has changed around you. Novel practice– work......
We have an immense distaste for uncertainty. And, as a result, we create for ourselves a radical and unskillful overestimation of our ability to control things. Our distaste of uncertainty is really a manifestation of our fear of death. When we experience and acknowledge uncertainty, it’s an oblique reminder that......
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