Lighting the path is hard when your light is dim. Saying X but doing Y as a leader crushes any team. The same is true for commitments that these leaders ask from their team but deliberately (and regularly) fail to make themselves. When a leader demands standards from their team
Lighting the path is hard when your light is dim. Saying X but doing Y as a leader crushes any team. The same is true for commitments that these leaders
Force tends to create counter-force.Push me and I’ll resist.Pull me and I’ll resist. But show me why it’s worthwhile to get there, and I’ll happily
Now Taylor knows. And can act accordingly. She took my self-assessment and uncovered her core strength: focus, being able to cut to the core. She
Here’s one of the biggest roadblocks for making a better impact with your communication: The ambition to find the most amazing words for saying what
A professor once told me: “When you’ve graduated from school you think you know it all. When you’ve graduated from college you know that you
There are two ways to play the devil’s advocate game: the serious way and the cute way. The cute way goes like this: Think of
Wow opens their mind. Aha changes their mind. Both are better together. Aha moments can’t happen when your audience doesn’t pay attention. Wow moments are
Still, the overwhelming majority of slides uses massive amounts of text in bullet point structure with the occasional clip art and overly detailed chart filled
Being right feels good, doesn’t it? Being wrong not so much. In fact, for many being wrong feels so bad that they will go to
Most questions that are worth investing the time to prepare a presentation for don’t have an easy yes-or-no answer. If they had, we could just
Job references are issued at the end of a work relationship, sometimes in between, in regular intervals. They are usually a judgement of how well
In his biography, Larry Ellison recalls a conversation he had with Bill Gates on the phone that left him stunned: “I didn’t agree with him
Leaders who light the path find the words to capture where a team is going and why it’s going there. What they usually don’t do
Someone once told me that “there’s no prospering team that’s not led by a strong leader with strong opinions.” And, indeed, reality seems to prove
Here’s a more useful question to ask: What would make them choose the track if they had the choice? Great leaders understand that brilliant people
“Empowerment” is a fancy way of saying that you trust your team with making decisions. Unfortunately, what some leaders mean when they use that word
