3 Ways Leaders Undermine Team Accountability
Today’s post is by Roger Schwartz, author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Here’s Roger… Do you see accountability problems in your team? Do your team members need to be more accountable? If so, you may be contributing to the [...]
The Art and Process of Leading Transformational Change
Today’s post is by Maureen Metcalf – a thoughtLEADERS instructor and author of The Innovative Leadership Fieldbook. and the newly-released Innovative Leaders Guide to Transforming Organizations (CLICK HERE to get your copy). Here’s Maureen: Sarah was the Vice President of Marketing for a Fortune 100 company when we met several years ago. She was known throughout [...]
Why it’s Important to Deliver Tough Feedback
Today’s post focuses on the importance of providing clear and direct feedback to members of your team. It’s an excerpt from One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership (you can get your copy here). Taking risks on people is important but leadership requires more than that. The other side of the [...]
Lead Like Your Mom
No, this isn’t a “your mom” joke post. Today I’ll share some thoughts on how to lead like your mom. I’m picking this topic today because it’s a gift for Mom’s birthday (and it’s cheaper than flowers… have you seen FTD’s prices lately?!?). That’s one of my favorite photos of her over there on the [...]
What a Marching Band Can Teach You about Leadership
I was lucky enough a few months ago to attend the Ohio State vs. Nebraska football game at Ohio State. It was a raucous affair in which OSU pounded Nebraska into submission. But that wasn’t the best part. The best part was the halftime show by The Best Damn Band In The Land. They showed [...]
How Letting Go Can Strengthen Your Leadership
Today Reynier Lezcano, author of Executive Wisdom: Reflections for Today’s Leaders, discusses how letting go can make you a better leader. I have come to the conclusion that the overwhelming majority of business executives think of leadership as a bureaucratic function of business, requiring lots of academic formation and business exposure, along with an empirical [...]
How to Pursue a Balanced Growth Strategy
Growth is the lifeblood of your business. A leader’s job is to take that business to bigger and better places. The dilemma lies in how to get there. You’re often faced with a simple choice: keep growing your core or expand into new arenas. It’s a challenge of balance. By growing your core, you’re building [...]
How Being Relevant Creates Competitive Advantage
Today, Robert Murray, author of It’s Already Inside (CLICK HERE to get your copy) shares thoughts on how your organization can build a competitive advantage. Lots gets said and written about leadership and strategy. Complex theories and models abound. Leaders (usually the ones with some sort of inferiority complex) use really big words and acronyms [...]
Finding Inspiration in the Words of Great Leaders
So many brilliant people have turned such wonderful and inspirational quotes over the years and we would do well as leaders to learn from them. I’ve compiled a few of my all-time favorite quotes in this post and encourage you to share your favorite ones with the members of your team. Heck, go crazy and [...]
Decision Making: You’re Doing it Wrong
Organizations are terrible at decision making. Yep. I said it. And you know it’s true. There are some pretty understandable reasons why we’re so bad at making decisions. We are afraid of being wrong. There are costs with being wrong (e.g., getting fired, not getting a promotion, etc.). We don’t want to upset people and [...]
