Four Things Leaders Must Do When Times Are Tough

In normal business cycles change is always there and we are able to realign our company cultures to continue to be effective.  Today disruption is the norm with multiple parts of our value chain changing and never coming back.  Leaders must be dealers in hope that the future will be better than the present.  This […]

Five Consequences Of A Life Out Of Balance

This may be the single most talked about topic that I encounter in all of my executive coaching.  The demands of our careers leave little margin for the other things that really matter the most in life.  It takes an incredible amount of character to be willing to define your own core values and then […]

How To Stay Calm Under Pressure At Work

We all are dealing with incredible amounts of stress at work with no end in sight.  Therefore, we must learn how to turn all of that energy into effective habits that increase our productivity not minimize it.  Many times the critical factor is simply our perspective about the stress and not the stress event itself. […]

3 Practical Steps To Getting The Right Results

We all know the practical definition of insanity: continue to do the same things but expect different results.  For most of us that means that we have to stop doing some existing things to make room for the new and better things.  At a minimum, we must change the way we are doing some old […]

Why You Should Always Lead With Your Values

Leveraging the best productivity practices and empowering teams are great strategies to drive results.  However, what we must always avoid is giving higher value to efficiency over effectiveness.  This means that the Why of what we are doing will always be more important than the How.  This Forbes post drives this truth home: “A few […]