Originally published February 4, 2021 on Forbes At your best, you choose love. You feel fear, or anxiety, or selfishness, or anger, or hate. But you choose love. You choose love because you’ve chosen fear and anxiety before. And it paralyzed you. You choose love because you’ve chosen selfishness before. And it isolated you. You…
Originally published January 27, 2021 on Forbes Good leaders know that alignment is critical in building successful teams. Unfortunately, many of them don’t do it often enough. Frequently leaders adopt a one-and-done, event-based mentality, for example, aligning at yearly or quarterly strategy meetings. While alignment should certainly happen at regular strategy meetings, it should also…
Originally published November 17, 2020 on Forbes [Spoiler alert: Yes!! If you don’t you’re dead in this economy.] I debated this question with the COO of medium-sized technology firm recently. His take was that while leadership at every level sounded nice, in reality it was impractical and unwise. His argument surrounded five reasons: Some people…
Originally published November 13, 2020 on Forbes A global pandemic is raging. Racial tensions are smoldering. Economic inequality is increasing. An environmental crisis is looming. And a partisan chasm in the US is widening. The challenges we’re facing didn’t just show up this year or even the over the last four years. They’ve been simmering…
One mindset separates great leaders from good ones. You won’t find it in leadership assessments. It’s never articulated in job descriptions. And it isn’t measured in performance management systems. Seldom demanded or expected, no one finds fault in a leader for not embodying it. However, when they do, they can move mountains.
This moment. Oh, how often missed While lost in the past or future Wrestling with if-only’s, when’s, and then’s. A trick of the mind In a modern world. To resist What’s at our feet As if not good enough. The clay of here-and-now. Infinitely moldable
Often The answer you’re searching for Is an answer you’ve known all along. Often You don’t need to find it You just need to trust it. A telltale sign You’ve known An answer all along Is that you bump into it Constantly. Each time it seems Familiar And comfortable And right. Yet it also seems too much of something.
Life blossoms When you give a damn About the people You meet About the relationships You build About the work You do About the legacy You leave The waiter who gives a damn Brightens customers. The teacher who gives a damn Opens minds. The doctor who gives a damn
Life is uncertain. Whether in the business world or at home, we feel an increasing loss of control over our future, and find ourselves paralyzed by indecision. Fear prevents people from taking chances and making game-changing moves. Anything other than the status quo appears inherently risky and reckless.
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