HERE IS THE LEADERS HOLIDAY GIFT

Several weeks ago I posted an article that got a ton of attention. The title was The 7 Signs of Poor Leadership. Since posting it has over 90,000 views. It must have struck a cord as I also had 2,700 Likes, over 1,050 re-shares and over 250 comments in which many people said they both saw these [...]

HOW TO KNOW YOU ARE NOT SELF AWARE

Man looking at reflection in window Several weeks ago I posted an article that got a ton of attention. The title was The 7 Signs of Poor Leadership. Since posting it has nearly 90,000 views. It must have struck a cord as I also had over 1,000 shares and over 200 comments in which many [...]

HOW TO CORRECT POOR LEADERSHIP TRAITS

The workplace has changed. Or has it? Most of our leaders are in the baby boomer era or learned from baby boomers and were brought up with very disciplined and neo-Victorian standards of leadership.  These were based on fear and getting respect just because you were a leader (as opposed to earning it), handing out [...]

WHY ACCOUNTABILITY CAN’T BE FORCED

How many of us have worked for a company that had no accountability….they really didn’t know what it meant but tried to impose it? They believed everyone had responsibility…which they didn’t, and that was enough. The two are often confused. So let’s first define the difference. The main difference is that responsibility can be shared [...]

WHAT SIGNS SHOW YOU ARE IN A TOXIC CULTURE?

  Toxic a pretty bold word. It has tremendous implications and is bandied about frequently, so let’s make sure we are on the same page as to what it really means.   If we go to the dictionary for a definition, the following words appear; poisonous, virulent, noxious, deadly, dangerous, harmful. That’s what a toxic office environment feels like.    [...]

WHY TENACITY CAN BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN TALENT

When I played soccer as a kid I played a lot. I practiced and practiced as everyone else was better! We’d be out in the evenings until after dark, when you could hardly see the ball, and in all weathers. I learned some powerful life lessons and one of them was that Tenacity can be more [...]

TO GROW WE NEED TO CHANGE

Doing the same thing and expecting different results The famous Albert Einstein quote came to mind recently as I was reflecting on a round of golf. I was 6 over par and heading for my best round ever, when on the 16th hole I hit my drive into a fairway bunker. My ball was on [...]