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What’s Your Game Plan For The Crisis?
We all know we’re in a crisis. Especially if you’re in a leadership role, you know that you’re in for a very challenging ride, perhaps the most challenging of your lifetime. Days seem like weeks, weeks like months as circumstances shift at a dizzying pace. But you’re...
How A Crisis Crystallizes Values
I was with a client’s executive team when the severity of the COVID-19 outbreak became clear. Like a lot of leadership teams, they were grappling with a lot of questions: How serious is this pandemic, really? How do we sort facts from hype or complacency? How should...
How to Make Success Seem Inevitable
Here’s a quick gut check: On a scale of 1 to 10, how confident are you in your organization’s ability to turn your brilliant, world-changing strategy into results? I asked this question of a client’s leadership team not long ago. The first few team members offered up...
How To Become The Best Version Of Yourself
It's the beginning of a new year, a time many of us pause to take stock. Maybe you've made some goals or even some resolutions. What if, in addition to targeting results this year, you aimed to take the next step in becoming an exceptional person? That's what...
How To Get Your Team Back On Track
It can happen to the best leaders. Some catalyst like a new team player, a miscommunication, jealousy, or fear creates a dynamic that derails your team's performance. Here's how to identify it and get your team back on track. The best leaders know how to turn a tough...
Why We Behave Badly In Meetings
At some point, you’re going to wonder if the people on your team have your back. For John, it happened when he asked his colleagues on the executive team for ideas on how to overcome a big challenge. As the CMO, the issue technically sat in his functional area but it...
Is Your Team On Track?
Have you ever woken up one day wondering “Is our team on track or off in a ditch?” It’s a fair question because while the map to peak team performance is charted, it’s not always easy to know whether you’re on the path or bushwhacking at any given time. You’ll...
Should You Trust Your Teammates?
The credit belongs to the man... who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat....
How Slowing Down Helps You Become Your Best Self
Hurry isn't of the devil. Hurry is the devil. - Dallas Willard Once you decide you’re going to go for it, to become who you were created to be instead of just churning away at the next accomplishment, you’re enrolling in a class of sorts. Getting durable change from...
How Durable Change Happens
Do you ever wonder what it takes to make changes that stick instead of slipping back into old patterns of behavior? I’ve been curious about that for a long time. To really understand how people make durable change, let’s flip the question and ask how people get stuck,...
Help! I Love To Learn But Don’t Have Time For Class
Of all the excuses we hear on a daily basis about doing things that will help us become more of who we were created to be, perhaps the most common is “I don’t have time.” A moment of self-reflection tells us this is a lie. Time is allocated so equally, that even...
The Biggest Barrier to Shining Brighter
Deep down, you want to make an impact. You want to be an and person.You want to perform at a very high level and serve a deeper purpose.You want to be smart and good.You want to excel and influence the world around you for the common good. You want to be about the...