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Trust Ownership Model

Let’s start with the idea that the primary role of a leader is to create a culture. And, not just any culture but a culture where people...

Making the Team

Many years ago I had a young athlete and her parents come to my office. The question on their mind was, “What does a player need to do...

The Art of Leveraging Mentoring to Grow Your Leadership

The Art of Leveraging a Mentor to Grow Your Leadership Growing Your Career Growing a career is not a chance event. If you are leaving your future...

12 Keys to Building a Leadership University

Build Leadership From Within 12 Key Points to Building an Internal Leadership University Companies hoping to retain millennial talent and build...

Career Advice From a Successful CEO

I have a pretty cool job. I get to interview people with amazing careers, including CEOs and other top leaders from great companies. I’m pretty picky who I interview, so all of the experiences are amazing. In this post I share a nice simple tool one successful CEO used to chart his course to the top.

Ethics Skeptics

ARE LEADERS ETHICAL? I teach an ethics and social responsibility course at a University. I poll my students on various topics. The other day I ran...

Be Pleasant – A Good Leadership Idea

“In this world, you must be oh so smart, or oh so pleasant. Well, for years I was smart. I recommend pleasant.” How to use a classic movie to build your leadership team.

Collaborative Iteration Outperforms Performance Management

Modern performance review processes are insulting. They come from a manager’s authoritative perspective and attempt to document how a lower ranking employee is perceived.

Emerging Leader Essentials

Master the fundamentals and leverage the lessons from top leaders who have spent years perfecting the art of leading. The result: effectiveness.

Leadership and Strategy

A great Strategic Plan targets an intersecting point in the future with a clear map of initiatives that execute strategic objectives to get you there.

Leading in the Tetons

Want high performing teams? Lesson 1: Personal preparation is critical to team success. Strategic objectives should guide our preparation and planning.

Agile for Leaders

Agile is a framework for nimble speed – not a license for chaos, loss of control, or random projects. Learn how effective leaders are both agile and strategic.

5 Big Leader Mistakes

There are five fundamentals every person in a leadership role needs to develop. Failure in these fundamentals leads to fast burnout by both leader and followers.

Present for Action

Conveying important ideas in a short amount of time to move people to action is one of the most important communicating competencies a leader can master.

Return on Character in Practice

What happens when you bring a veteran leader into the classroom to teach students who are thirsty for knowledge of what it’s like in the “real-world?”

The answer – you get moments of extreme clarity of the importance of leading people.