The Delivery Truck Principle In Leadership
I am always fighting the battle between time spent in development vs. time spent in actual delivery. So much of the time spent in development feels like progress but it is not immediately producing results. On the other hand, if you don’t have anything of value to give then all the connecting in the world […]
How To Create Moral Margin In Your Life
One of the greatest books I have ever read is Margin by Richard Swenson. I knew my life was over scheduled and needed dramatic help but I could not understand the underlying causes. I now know that if you lack margin in any important area of your life you will eventually crash, its just a […]
You’ve Offended Someone, Now What?
There is at least one absolute reality in life and that is I am going to say something that clearly offends someone. It’s clearly most painful when it happens at home but its difficult in every other relationship as well. The hard part is sometimes I don’t even know I crossed the line and other […]
Individual Contributors Vs. Teamwork
I can clearly remember when teams where the newest fad in leadership development. Initially, they were purely token with positional leadership still firmly in control. All of that is changing now and many good people don’t fit the team culture. Mark Miller takes on this critical subject in this new post: “Each week, I respond […]
7 Principles For Setting Goals That Work
There is not a week in my life that goes by when the subject or the reality of goal setting does not come up. It seems so simply yet so many people are incredibly ineffective when it comes to getting the right things done. Michael Hyatt comes through again with an excellent post: “How do […]