True Leadership Begins with Service: Why Humility Drives High-Performing Teams
Leadership in today’s world carries more responsibility than simply managing numbers or resources. At its core, effective leadership is about serving others—with humility, integrity, and a willingness to lift others up. Doug Thorpe’s powerful assertion, “If serving is beneath you, leadership is beyond you,” encapsulates the foundational reality: the best leaders are those who see […]
The Power of Leverage: Creating Maximum Impact with Strategic Principles
“If you give me a lever and a place to stand, I can move the world.” – Archimedes Most of us share a common drive: we want to make a real difference. We want our work to matter, our efforts to count, and our impact to ripple outward in meaningful ways. But here’s the frustrating […]
Leading Change: An Old Model Reveals New Ideas
Business leaders know the challenge it can be to lead change. When there is a new announcement about something changing, you can often hear the groans that arise.
Boundarylessness – What Is It?
Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of GE, had a term he liked to share with his executive team. The word was “Boundarylessness”. What he meant was each leader should explore the boundaries they have set for themselves; the artificial limits placed in the heart of man. These limiting thoughts need to be eliminated. He wanted […]
Lessons in Leadership: Soaring with the Winds of Life
When facing challenges at work, consider the ‘winds’ of life.
When You Lose, Are You Bitter or Better?
Here’s the scenario: life throws you a curve ball. Things don’t go your way. You suffer an embarrassing moment in front of colleagues, your spouse or your kids. You lose the deal, the game, the promotion, or the moment. The other guy wins. You failed. What are your responses? Yes, I believe there is more […]
Leadership: Finding a Good Fit
Companies spend a lot of time and money trying to identify “good fit” during their hiring process. Candidate selection is driven by the magical, mystical notion of making a good fit decision. First Steps Clearly, the first step usually involves matching job description requirements with the candidate’s stated background experience. Right away, the matching process […]
Seen Any Red Flags Lately?
The new year is always full of new possibilities. Yet sometimes we drag old situations into the new year. One big area where I see people struggle has to do with identifying and managing “red flags.” What is it about red flags? You know, those subtle warning signs that a new situation is going to […]
Beating Procrastination at Its Own Game – and Ways to Thrive
People often ask me about ways to beat procrastination. I usually say “I’ll get back to you.” Just kidding. Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but 20 percent of people chronically avoid difficult tasks and deliberately look for distractions—which, unfortunately, are increasingly available. Procrastination in large part reflects our perennial struggle with self-control as well as our inability […]
A Mentor’s Greatest Lament
It’s easy to find a lot of talk about mentoring; being a mentor, using a mentor, and growing from mentorship. One of my most popular posts was about being a stepping stone. But what will you do about that? Mentors come in many varieties. Anyone who’s been through some form of higher learning has probably […]