The Past Has Been Great and the Future Looks Even Better!
It’s that time again—the start of a new year, right on the heels of a great passing year. This year, however, it’s the transition between two decades. On my holiday break I couldn’t help but think back over the past year and also over the past decade to reflect on how...
I’m Listening
Dr. Frasier Crane was the main character on the show Frasier. He played a psychiatrist who had his own radio show in the Pacific Northwest in Seattle, Washington. His radio show had a call-in format. People called in with their problems, and he dispensed advice. The...
The Station
How busy are you right now? According to the radio, it's the most wonderful time of the year. I'm not so sure that I agree. December, for me, is one to-do list after another, both personally and professionally. I can't wait for the fresh start of the new year so I can...
A Personal Growth Model: Invite Feedback. Adjust. Repeat.
We all like an ‘at-a-boy or ‘at-a-girl. I can distinctly remember a handful of times when our organization’s president called me out by name in front of my peers for an above-and-beyond type effort. That felt great. But I can also remember taking a tough phone call...
The Sweet Spot
Happy Thanksgiving fellow leaders! This week’s post is going to take a new angle on the sweet-spot exercise. During our year of LEAD, we looked at the diagram below several times asking the same extremely important question: How close are you right now to being in...
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