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Finding Your Writing Process

If you are a leader, you are in the communication business. That means, you need a process for putting thoughts into writing. Here's mine.

Finding Your Writing Process

If you are a leader, you are in the communication business. That means, you need a process for putting thoughts into writing. Here's mine.

Change Is Hard

Twelve months ago, I found myself in the throes of the largest, most disruptive, and personally difficult season of organizational change...

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...