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Leadership: To Serve or To Be Served?
Great ambition without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you? – From the movie “The Emperor’s Clothes” Much [...]
Leadership Values in Times of Transition
As leaders move through the leadership pipeline they typically gain additional responsibilities, a larger footprint in the organization, and more complex stakeholder groups. They likely have [...]
The Power of Trade-offs
Around August every year, I'm reminded of the power of making trade-offs. You see, I take a month off every summer (actually five weeks). And, [...]
Mentoring as a Leadership Role
One of the responsibilities of leadership that leaders sometimes minimize is the role of the leader as a coach, mentor and developer of people. For [...]
Why Executives Should Talk About Racial Bias at Work
For the past several months, it seemed that everywhere I turned people were talking about events in Ferguson, Staten Island, and North Charleston — in [...]
Is Your Employee Coachable?
As a manager, you provide some level of coaching to all your direct reports, helping some attain higher levels of professional achievement, and helping others [...]
Signs That You Lack Emotional Intelligence
In my ten years as an executive coach, I have never had someone raise his hand and declare that he needs to work on his [...]
What Micromanagers Really Mean When They Try to Explain Their Behavior Leading
What Micromanagers Really Mean When They Try to Explain Their Behavior Leading: A helpful chart to help you gain perspective. READ ARTICLE
The Perils of the All-Employee Meeting
Town halls, all hands, skip level meetings, the list goes on. Anyone who works in a corporate environment has experienced them. And the more senior [...]
When Your Good Mentor Goes Bad
According to a study at Sun Microsystems, mentees were promoted five times more often than those without a mentor. Eighty-eight percent of respondents to a [...]