You’re Never Going To Be Caught Up At Work

I will never forget the days when best practices productivity told us to plan every minute of our days for maximum effectiveness.  The primary discipline then was stick with the plan and make sure you got everything done.  Today, I block at least 20% of my day as open for Read more

Rethinking Work-Life Balance: Whose Time Is It?

Almost all executive coaches have some type of inbound form to identify areas that clients want to address during the coaching relationship.  Without fail in the last 11 plus years, everyone’s form I have read has some form of work-life balance identified.  Everyone is struggling with the problem and we Read more

Seven Secrets To Inspiring Your Team

In my leadership work I am shocked by how many teams for the most part participate in meetings that are basically a waste of time.  We value collaboration but we just do not possess the competency to stop dumbing down the content so that everyone can be involved.  A significant Read more

What Makes You A Different Kind Of Leader?

There is always some new tool to help us find our greatest strength or develop in an area of weakness.  The mistake we often make is to either lean into our strength or obsess over what we don’t do as well.  My conclusion is that both areas are important but Read more

It’s Time To Redefine Executive Presence

I am a passionate believer in Situational Leadership as the best way to lead anyone based on the context of the person and the challenge.  However, just as daily leadership challenges are constantly changing so is the market context in which we lead.  So today with disruption everywhere, the old Read more

5 Behaviors Of Smart Leaders

One of the most significant changes in executive leadership is moving from being the person who has all the answers to the person who knows how to ask the right questions.  In reality, this is not a diminished role for the leader but an expanded one that maximizes the potential Read more

Five Questions To Uncover Your Purpose

I wasted years trying to do the right things without clearly defining what those things actually are.  The volume of inputs is increasing daily and how can we possibly know what to do and what not to do?  The only way to consistently say No to the good things, to Read more