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...
Even the Greatest Leaders Struggle with Margins
This is a true story about a leader, his team, and the difficulties with establishing boundaries and margins. As is often the case, one of the things that made this leader great was that he could get things done that no one else could. Even though he had trained his...
What’s Love Got To Do With It?
With Valentine's Day just a day away, thoughts of love are in the air. Josh and I spent the first twelve years of our marriage not celebrating V-Day at all, and then our daughter started school. Apparently Valentine's Day is a Very Big Deal to elementary-school girls....
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