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Navigating the 4 Phases of a Sabbatical

Four phases are common to a good sabbatical experience, but each one is fraught with temptations that can sabotage the best of intentions.

Avoiding the Graveyard of Good Intentions

If you are like most people, you began the New Year with some thought about goals, possibilities, and dreams of what you’d like to...

Cure for a Culture of Blame

Maybe it’s the nature of politics. Maybe it’s just part of human nature. Either way, it seems that the public rhetoric of our day is...

VISION — The Oil of Your Organizational Engine

The power of an engine means it creates friction. The problem with friction is that it kills engines. Every engine generates friction, no...

Why Doesn't Our Vision Statement Inspire People?

Let me cut straight to the bottom line. The reason that vision statements fail to inspire and rally the troops is very simple: Vision is...

Turn Supervision Into Empowerment

The org chart says you are the boss, the supervisor, the one responsible for managing your people. But, your heart says leading these...

How Can My Triggers Help Me?

We get triggered when our buttons are pushed and we become somebody we’re not or, at least, someone we don’t want to be. What if these trig

LIVING A LIFE OF INFLUENCE

Influence is a big deal. It is honorable. It matters. And, here at the beginning of a new year, I would guess that most of us are...

Starting Your New Year with Sustainable Perspective

While everyone is looking backward at the dumpster-fire-of-a-year we just finished, I want to offer a prescription for looking forward...

TO GO FAST, GO SLOW

I am always thinking about change. I want to lead it well. I want to seize the power of it when it’s happening. I get impatient when it...

PASSING THE BATON #2 // Fighting the Urge for Control

I like to tell myself that I am not a control freak. Right. It’s kind of like trying to tell myself that I am not an old, fat, balding,...