LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT
How Invisible Forces Influence Decision-making
Good leadership is about good decision-making. Processes upon processes have been developed to help leaders make decisions, yet we often fail to consider the hidden forces that influence decision-making. This post identifies three hidden forces, offering a...
Leadership and the Responsible Use of Power
“The most effective leaders appear to exhibit a degree of versatility and flexibility that enables them to adapt their behavior to the changing and contradictory demands made on them.” Ralph Stogdill (The Leadership Handbook). It’s one thing for a leader to recognize...
Solving Trust Issues; We Have a Trust Problem. Now What?
Working remotely requires a high level of trust among team members and also between teams. As a result, leaders and managers are now being bombarded with both new trust challenges and others they may have failed to address pre pandemic. Let’s begin by identifying some...
Here’s How Jeff Bezos’ Brilliant Memo System Can Dramatically Improve Your Virtual Meetings
This article is part of my #Elevate series on LinkedIn with over 280,000 subscribers. Subscribe above to receive future editions directly in your feed. As a leader, I have never been a fan of update meetings and they are even more problematic in a virtual environment...
You Can’t Fix What You Can’t See
Most of the CEOs I know are confronting the toughest leadership test they have ever faced — getting their business back to normal in an environment that is anything but normal. I empathize with leaders who want to restore what was, but the reality is that getting back...
“WOOP” Your Team’s Goals and Find Success
Building great leaders and high-performing teams is more than an exercise of recruiting people with the right credentials and experience for success.And, it takes more than just assembling a laundry list of attributes that you expect your team to demonstrate --...
How to Overcome the Distraction of Compassion
Distracted leaders are octopods spinning like tornados with sucker-filled tentacles clinging to ‘important’ trivialities.You can’t go eight directions at the same time and make meaningful progress. The centrifugal force of distraction drives leaders toward triviality,...
Searching for the “Just Right” Leadership Approach in this Era
For hundreds of years, individuals known as alchemists searched in vain for the mythical Philosopher's Stone, a substance that was imagined to have the properties essential for turning basic medals into gold or generating the elixir of immortal life. Today's...
You’ve Lost Your Sense of Control. Now What?
Your sense of control as a leader is in jeopardy these days. How can you feel in control faced with the uncertainties of a global pandemic, racial upheaval, epic environmental events, impending (or current) economic disaster, limited resources and a workforce living...