It's Time to Lead

Last night, as I was telling the kids goodnight, I noticed that the movie Tin Cup was on television.  I’m not a huge movie buff but that’s one of the classics in my opinion.  I happen to walk through the room just at the beginning of the scene where Roy McAvoy, with a chance to [...]

I was working with a leader recently who wanted the people on her team to treat their relationship differently.  Because she was approachable, compassionate and empathetic to her team, they began to share every trouble, woe and bit of drama in their lives with her, often when there were pressing business issues that needed to [...]

Often, when organizations are trying to make change happen, it comes down to a couple of levers that they need to pull to start the motion.  It might be organizational structure, or process, or communication.  Almost always, it’s a combination of things that need to be addressed in order to cause change to happen.  But [...]

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 was working with a company recently that was looking for a way to improve the success of the leaders they bring into the organization.  They had hired several senior executives only to watch them struggle and ultimately leave or be forced out within the first 18 months. What’s interesting is that the amount of [...]

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 [...]

One of the most basic questions leaders often ask is how do I get the people in the organization to do what the organization needs them to.  I was working with the president of a multi-billion dollar business when he said, “my biggest problem is that I know exactly what the people in this business [...]

Typically when I start coaching a new client, I spend our first meeting doing a lot of listening.  It doesn’t take long to figure outwhere the opportunities are to help someone if you just let them talk for a while.  A while back I was coaching an executive and he spent a great deal of [...]

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 [...]