Tomorrow’s Best Leaders Will Lead With Questions
Most leaders who were trained in the last century in leadership theory were told to use their positional authority and to become the answer man. The best way to help your people was to be the smartest person in the room and to always be ready to give clear direction to your team. All of […]
When Empowering People Works And When It Doesn’t
Empowerment is a hot topic for most organizations and their workforce. It increases trust across the board and significantly improves the capacity of the teams to do more work effectively. However, if it becomes another branding trick to simply get more work done without investing in your people it can backfire. This HBR post is […]
Creating The Right Organizational Culture
I find myself in working with executives debating whether prioritizing results or activities is the best approach to building a healthy organizational culture. The activities approach is more directive and seeks to define what things should be done well that will give the greatest return. When you use results as the most important metic, you […]
7 Ways Clarity Powers Productivity
One of the major problems we all face today is the enormous volume of new daily inputs. Should we delete, delegate, delay or do them today? Without a clear sense of clarity around what is the next most important thing to do based on what I know now, we waste tremendous amounts of emotional energy […]
Church Scattered: Why Highly Engaged Employees Are At Risk For Burnout
We all like to tell ourselves the little self-talk lie that yes I’m overworked today but very soon its all going to get better. Then we get hit with another list of critical projects and we have to push through with the every growing doubt setting in that this stress is never going to get […]