An Unfair Advantage, Part 1
Over my twenty-five years of studying great leaders, I’ve come to believe that some leaders, maybe only ten to twenty percent, have an unfair advantage when they compete against other leaders. This unfair advantage isn’t really unfair because any leader can do the...
LEAD 365 Alumni Mirror
Fellow Leaders, Reunions are great. We get to enjoy them with you at alumni events as well as one-on-one as many of you have stopped in to say hello (keep doing that!). What I really enjoy is seeing the growth and transformation that has taken place. I’ve seen this so...
The Path to High Impact
In Jeff's last post, he reminded you of our Leaning Into Healthy Conflict model and the importance of not avoiding conflict. In my last post, I reminded you of the path to low impact that we teach in LEAD 365 and how that path is initiated by attempting to avoid...
The Path to Low Impact
Jeff did a nice job of reviewing our Leaning Into Healthy Conflict model in last week’s posting while also adding some new insights from author Reggie McNeal about the importance of not avoiding conflict. To build on Jeff’s posting, I want to remind you of some of the...
The Truth about Conflict
Let’s start today with a quick look at the “Leaning In To Healthy Conflict” model. Since this is such a key part of leadership, regularly reviewing this model is definitely in order. Before you keep reading, see if you can visually picture the process in your head....
Getting Away
Many of the topics I teach and blog about are things that I have pondered and researched for many years. Often, after so much time processing my thoughts, I develop some clear beliefs about what is best with regards to the topic under consideration. This topic isn’t...
Trust: The Foundation of Any Healthy Team
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD365, although all are welcome to read it. It was originally published on November 30, 2015.) A few weeks back we had a man come to do some work on our living room carpet, and he and I started to slide our very heavy couch out of...
Personal Balcony Time
Great leaders make sure that they schedule what we call “balcony time.” So many things call for our attention at work every day that we can get completely caught up in the day-to-day business of business—what's happening on the “dance floor." Getting up in the balcony...
Upside Down and Inside Out
Back in December I shared a music video from the band Ok Go. I so highly value creativity, art, and music that I could post on something like that every week, but I hold back. Recently, though, our Leading by DESIGN team has been talking about innovation, which we...
Building a Learning Community
About fifteen years ago I heard an expert suggest that most people end up being the average of the people they hang out with. Often a random insight works on me for years, and the idea that people are the average of the people they hang out with has been working away...