Leadership is not always easy. In fact, it often involves taking risks. One way to think about leadership is that it’s like walking into and through a fire. You can usually tell when you are leading because you feel the heat or sense the risk. If leadership was easy, everyone […]
What About the Car Behind You?
August 15, 2018 1 Comment
I’m pretty confident that as a driver you pay close attention to the cars in front of you and on each side of you, and perhaps even to the cars behind you to make sure you know what they’re up to. However, are you the type of person who pays […]
Coach
July 5, 2018 1 Comment
As I write this blog, I’m sitting in my hotel in Riverton, WY, with my Dad. He and I are on our annual trip, and this is our 8thyear. We started off doing Civil War history trips, but this year we decided to do some bucket list trips for both […]
Leaders Are Honest About Their People
January 25, 2018 Leave a Comment
One of Jack Nicholson’s most famous movie lines (he has many) is “You can’t handle the truth!” from A Few Good Men, and it’s often true for all of us, especially as leaders. This past year, I’ve been sharing this uncomfortable truth, which has been disrupting leaders across the world […]
What’s Your Word?
October 12, 2017 Leave a Comment
That’s the question – what’s your word? I’ll come back to that in a moment. I love history. I haven’t always loved history, but I started falling in love with it about 20 years ago as I started reading and understanding it better. I don’t particularly love historical facts and […]
Level 5 Blind Spot
September 19, 2017 Leave a Comment
In 2001, Jim Collins published a book that went on to become a best seller (over four million copies) and is considered one of the most influential business books of our time. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t (Harper Collins 2001) included a handful of […]
Love Leadership
February 16, 2016 1 Comment
Yes, you read it correctly – I said love leadership – and that’s what I’m inviting each of you to bring to every leadership role you have. Whether at work, with your team, in your family, in your relationships or in any organization, I’m suggesting that you embrace love leadership […]
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