What Do You Need From the Team You Lead
When you feel compelled to remind everyone else that you’re the leader, it sounds more like you’re trying to convince yourself.
Why Having the Last Word Can Kill Your Leadership Influence
As a leader, how uncomfortable are you when you don’t have the last word in a conversation? Hmm …
Stop Trying to Be the Smartest Person in the Room
Trying to display your alpha intelligence in a group of people might not be the smartest play. Just sayin’…
10 Reasons We Don’t Get Better as Leaders
The Navy SEALs say that in a crisis, you don’t rise to the occasion. You sink to the level of your training. What’s true for special operations is true for leadership as well.
3 Reasons Why Your Past Identity Doesn’t Determine Your Future Identity
When it comes to defining leadership identity, our default is to look back to who we’ve been in the past as a starting point. This is natural, but actually handcuffs our ability to make any forward progress on stepping into the leader we can be.
Building Your Leadership Identity From the Inside-Out
My son’s experience with a caramel apple opened my mind to a life-long pattern of defining myself by who I was on the outside—DO, in order to BE. It created the opportunity for me to come to the end of myself.
Discover the Power Behind Your Unique Leadership Identity
The topic of leadership identity is a growing conversation, thankfully so. But keep in mind that we can’t define our leadership identity until we first define our human identity.
Why “Who Am I?” Is the Most Important Leadership Question Ever
What if there’s a question whose answer unlocks the motivation for everything you do in our life and leadership? Well, it turns out there is!
How to Be a Leadership MVP
One key basketball statistic reveals the players that most help their teams win. See how this is also a primary leadership principle.
Are You Who You Want to Be: You Can Know Your True Identity
Over-relying on your default approach makes you one-dimensional. You can’t be effective, no matter how capable, intelligent, extroverted, correct or successful you are.
Lead AND Manage: Stop Being a 1-Trick Leadership Pony
Over-relying on your default approach makes you a 1-trick leadership pony. You can’t be effective, no matter how capable, intelligent, extroverted, correct or successful you are.
Being Productive May Be Making You Ineffective
I agree that stuff needs to get done. But in a marketplace that virtually idolizes productivity, it's easy to become a hamster in a wheel. There's a better way.
Leverage Your Assets, Love Your People
Your employees are NOT your greatest asset, because they aren't assets. They're people.
We Are Not What We Do
A popular quote says, “The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do.” I beg to differ.
It’s All About the Heart
Using speed to measure performance is helpful, but measuring speed alone can be misleading. One recent bike ride (re)taught me an important lesson.
Lucky on Leadership
What leadership principles will you rely on when everything is blowing up and the bullets are flying? It helps to talk to someone who has been there before. Allow me to introduce you to John “Lucky” Luckadoo.
Living in a House Divided
The January 6, 2021 riot at the Capital Building is unmistakable proof of a problem—one that few of us may be willing to acknowledge.
What Commuting Taught Me About Leadership – Stay Humble
The only way we can GET better is to believe that we CAN get better—which requires humility.
What Commuting Taught Me About Leadership – Losing Your Cool Can Be Deadly
The day before my final commute I got a sobering reminder that letting emotions drive you almost never works in your favor.
What Commuting Taught Me About Leadership – You See What You Look For
If you’re leading others, it’s vital that you see the obvious things other people can’t—or won’t.