So you've decided to get up out of your box, the one in which your compadres reside, and you've opened your eyes to the realities and viewpoints and fresh angles and new perspectives gained from outside your old position. Now what? Reduce it down to it's essential...
For me, Spring is the best time to set new resolutions, not the new year. This is when everything starts to come alive. The daylight is longer, and brighter. Spring is infectious. January is, well, depressing. This is the time to look at your organization and tune it...
I've been working on my family budget. Tax time is a great opportunity to revisit your strategies and make sure you're on track. On track with what? With your plan. Your strategy. You know, the one you wrote down clearly and carefully. The one that has all the good...
Let me try bring some clarification to the term 'Accountability.' There are several ways to use this word. One way refers to being held responsible for certain actions or outcomes. Like your tax bill. You are being held accountable by the IRS. If you don't hold up...
Many of us escaped the 'Boss' and the 'J.O.B.' because of the pressure coming from up the chain. Or because of the ridiculous management style, or company culture, or downright stupidity emanating from 'The Man.' We hoped to escape some form of toxic accountability,...
Residing inside an organization, like a family or a business, can be much like inhabiting the inside of a pipe. Hard to know what is going on outside of it. Pipes have two parts, the inside and the outside. You can’t be in both places at the same time. How often have...
Intentionality. This is a big idea. We make decisions, and take action. We decide things. We do things. We pursue, and risk, and reach out from our current place on which we stand. We try to do things that are undone, and try to undo things that are done incorrectly....
They intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see who they really are- Aldous HuxleyDown in the trenches. On the front lines. Nose to the grindstone. We've heard this before, and done this before. And while working hard is by no means a bad idea, let's not...
Carl Jung once said, "We always require an outside point to stand on, in order to apply the lever of criticism."As I've said before, objectivity. An outside view, an observer who is not inside the organization, or the family, or the mind of an individual.So here are...
The fundamental definition of a leader is a person who leads others to a destination. Key words LEAD and DESTINATION. Where exactly are you going? Too often we lead for the sake of leading. This amounts to a cruise ship going around in circles. Not too hateful...
To be trusted is among the greatest privileges we can walk under. And conversely, to lose that trust becomes the most expensive relational loss, and regaining it is near impossible. As business leaders, we can be given, with little question, much trust. By our...
An often overlooked quality necessary to being a good leader is humility. And one place in which that humility becomes essential is in the area of mentoring. Dads and moms mentor. Coaches mentor. Bosses mentor. Pastors and community leaders and CEO's and PTA's and...
Because they are all entrepreneurs, they understand the pain of running a business. They are trained to lead sessions so you can learn how to get back on track, and rediscover why you want to succeed.