The Cost of Disengaged Managers
According to Gallup’s most recent poll, approximately 36% of all employees are what you would call very engaged. Very engaged employees are stoked about their work. They are passionate and […]
Relinquish Control?? Scary!!
Most of my clients are founders or leaders of high-growth start-up companies, so I get to see their evolution along that path. Eventually most of them experience a tension. On […]
Burnt Out
The beginning of autumn is NOT when we would normally be thinking about burnout. Start of the fourth quarter usually marks renewal. People return to work from summer vacations, children […]
What Should We Do About Jesse?
Most of us have heard the well-worn trope that you should hire slowly and fire quickly. Like most categorical rules, this is over-simplistic. Firstly, the last half of the rule […]
First, Ask Why
When I was serious about triathlons, I learned a term from my running coach: Junk Miles. Junk miles are runs that have no purpose. They wear on your body and […]
Learn to Love Being Wrong
We spend so much energy trying never to be wrong, but it costs us in learning, growth and relationships. You can get better at dealing with it when you find out you're wrong. That will give you greater flexibility, more accuracy and more compelling leadership.
Great Managers Are Made Not Born (redux)
In our business culture, we do a peculiar thing. We take people who are extraordinary at their jobs and then give them new jobs for which they have never been […]
Trust and Safety
Over the last two weeks the world has spoken, emphatically protesting the lack of safety that black people experience with police. While the events that prompted world-wide protests have taken […]
Developing Your Team from Afar
When we work virtually, we lose some obvious touch-points of organizational life. Many of those practical challenges have been well-explored. For example, almost every organization has learned to replicate meetings, […]
The Leader’s Empathy Challenge
We often expect others to be just like us. It’s a weirdly human phenomenon that we all think others feel the way we do. So, for example, you may feel […]