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.
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!
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.
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.