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 [...]

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 [...]

I recently wrote an article about how leaders focus on things a little differently than others and that it’s not that they engage in different activities, as much as it is how they engage.  Leaders tend to think differently about their daily activities and focus on a different outcome, so they get exactly that.  One [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I was reading some research done recently by the conference board that said employee satisfaction across the country had dropped to an all time low of 45%.  If it’s anywhere near accurate, it means that for the first time since we started measuring it, over half of us are unhappy in our jobs.  The other [...]