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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]