Blog - Leadership
Articles and blog posts on our many leadership topics.
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Read ArticleDo you want to start benefiting from feedback, but don’t know where to begin?
Making It Safe to Tell the Truth (Practice #13 in Todd Davis’s bestselling book on effective relationships, Get Better) is an important theme when setting the groundwork for receiving feedback.
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Read ArticleManagement vs. Leadership: The Great Debate
Scott Miller explores the difference between management and leadership and the necessity of one over the other when it comes to working with people.
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Read ArticlePeak, Trough, and Recovery
Three words that recently, and very practically, changed my leadership style. I’ve known Daniel Pink for nearly 10 years and found his books to be both inspiring and pragmatic.
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Read ArticleOvercoming Pride and Pretension
In each of our lives, there are powerful restraining forces at work to pull down any new resolution or initiative. Among those forces are pride and pretension.
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Read ArticleOvercoming Appetites and Passions
In each of our lives, there are powerful restraining forces at work to pull down any new resolution or initiative. Among those forces are appetites and passions.
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Read ArticleBreaking Deeply Embedded Habits
Well-intentioned resolutions will fall flat in the face of stiff restraining forces without character and social reinforcements.Every organization and individual struggles
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Read ArticleParadigms
Paradigm comes from the Greek root, paradigma. It basically means a pattern, a model, a representation, something that stands for something else.
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Read ArticleExamples of Servant Leaders
In many organizations I've worked in or with, I've seen examples of servant leaders who have really made a difference.
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Read ArticleFlying High
I once had an experience that for me was a simulation of servant leadership. I was working with the Oregon Air National Guard and was scheduled to go up in an F-15.
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Read ArticleNew Wine - Old Bottles
The adage that "you can't put new wine in old bottles" still holds true, as evidenced by attempts to profit senior executives with new leadership styles.
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Read ArticleKeys to Total Quality
The key to a total quality company is a total quality person who knows how to program and use a compass. I've always liked the expression, "If it's going to be, it's up to me."
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Read ArticleSubordinate the Clock to Compass
For many executives, the dominant metaphor of life is still the clock. We value the clock for its speed and efficiency. The clock has its place, efficiency has its place - after effectiveness.
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Read ArticleFirst Things First
I've learned that the good is the enemy of the best when the first things in our lives are subordinated to other things.
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Read ArticleCurrents in the Stream
When I talk of the "stream," I mean the external forces and the powerful, deep currents that influence all we do in business. Changes in technology have totally revolutionized our world.
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Read ArticleMoral Compassing
When managing in the wilderness of the changing times, a map is of limited worth. What's needed is a moral compass.
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Read ArticleEmbarrassing Duplicity
Once I was a faculty member at a university in Hawaii. I was very upset about our housing situation, and so I went directly to the president, since he worked with me on my visiting professorship.
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Read ArticleBe Loyal to Those Absent
Being loyal to those who are absent and assuming good faith of others are keys to building trust in a culture. The ultimate test of principle-centered leadership is to be loyal to the absent.
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Read ArticleYour Job as a Leader: Engage Your People and Build Your Culture
I work with government and corporate organizations around the globe, helping them improve their leadership and overall performance.
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Read ArticleAs Performance Review Time Rolls Around, Consider A Different Approach
I recently came across a news article exploring an emerging realm of performance reviews. I was thrilled with the forward thinking that many organizations are doing.
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Read ArticleLead With Purpose: Get Aligned With Your Mission
In my first post on leading with purpose, I outlined two reasons for cynicism around mission statements. The first reason is that too many mission statements are meaningless platitudes.
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