Are you the kind of person who…

- Rides roller coasters, yelling “WooHoo!” the whole time?

- Looks change in the face and says, “Bring it!”

- Is allergic to the status quo?

If you are, you’ve got a terrific competency as a leader…

Leaders need to know enough to be dangerous.

And Bob had to figure that out quickly.

I started working with Bob, an Executive Vice President of Operations at a distribution company, when he’d been chosen to sponsor a multimillion-dollar tech project…

If you, like me, are a deeply passionate, feeling person with no problem speaking your mind, you likely received professional coaching early in your career to "stop being emotional" or "you're too emotional" or "you're taking this personally", sometimes because your emotions made your leader (or others) uncomfortable because THEY were taught that emotions did not belong in the workplace. Read More…

One of the most common unconscious mindsets is that “change is temporary,” but when you see something as temporary, you tend to cope with it instead of accepting and embracing it. Read More…

I was recently on a call with an executive who mentioned that one of the things that he and his colleagues were concerned about was how to develop their successors when their successors don’t want to come back to the office. Read More…

If there was ever an organization for which I felt deep concern, it was this one. Read More…