It's Time to Lead

Why does your business exist?  No matter what kind of organization you are leading, whether you are an executive in a huge corporation or a solo entrepreneur, you have a concept of what your business is about.  How you think about that question will greatly determine what your business looks like a year from now. [...]

I’ve worked with a lot of folks lately who have had a change in careers or are looking for a new one and one thing keeps becoming clearer to me as I have conversations with these folks.  It’s not about the ground gained, it’s about the potential created. So many people who were focused on [...]

One of the most common questions I get when I am working with leaders who are trying to make a shift in how they lead themselves and others, goes something like this:  ”How am I supposed to do all of this other leadership and people stuff when it takes all of my time just to [...]

I met a business leader recently who was telling me about the challenges he was having with getting people in his organization to step up and take responsibility.  He felt like he was ready to turn more of his operation over to others in the company so he could stop working 70 or 80 hours [...]

I’ve had the good fortune throughout my career to work with some incredible leaders. But for every great leader I’ve been around there were dozens of individuals who could have been great leaders and never were. I’ve known many people who have had the skills, the knowledge and the experience to lead people effectively and [...]

I had an opportunity to speak to business owners from across the country recently at their annual convention.  Prior to my keynote address they gave out several awards to members of their group.  There was one individual who, it seemed, hardly had time to sit down before she was called back to the stage to [...]

One of the attributes I have noticed in nearly every great leader that I’ve worked with is that they know how to get back up after they fall.  I don’t think they fall any less than the rest of us, or any less hard.  But they don’t lay there very long. I actually believe that [...]

Although I haven’t been able to watch as much as I would like, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed seeing some of the Winter Olympic Games this time around.  I enjoy watching the competition but I also like learning about how some of these incredible athletes got to the top of their sport and the level of commitment [...]

In my last post I talked about the research done recently indicating that employee satisfaction across the country has tumbled to an all time low of 45%.  I listed one key to creating organizational satisfaction and in this post I’d like to touch on two more.  Take a look at my first post here to [...]

It’s that time of year when so many of us are in the midst of trying to keep the New Year’s resolutions we made.  Most of the nearly half of Americans who make them have already broken those promises to themselves.  And if you believe the research, those of us who have managed to keep [...]