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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.

Defying the Gravity of a Crisis

I know, I know. “Defying Gravity,” sounds a little melodramatic. It’s like the booming voice of a circus barker, “Come one, come all....

The Inverted Relationship of Focus and Impact

(Photo by Steven Wright on Unsplash) Here’s a problem, my brain is always thinking about possibilities. What else could be done? What...

The Power of ONE THING

Every day every leader must find a way through the fog and the clamor of the urgent in order to focus their attentions on what matters...

Healthy Leaders Name Reality

As one of my favorite people says, "Leaders frame reality." They refuse to indulge in soft language about a fanciful future with no...

3Qs to Ignite Your Mentoring Relationships

Let’s start by blowing up crazy thinking that keeps lots of people from pouring their lives into others. The truth: you don’t have to be...

Law of the Pencil and Stone

How in the world can you make plans, set strategies, or establish vision when the world around you changes every time you look at it? How...

Dialogues of the Deaf

I am sick and tired of people who talk their way through an entire conversation without EVER asking a single question of anyone else...