When Too Much Transparency Backfires
We must always be committed to tell the truth, but sometimes you can ask too many questions and share too much information. Everyone on your team does not need to know everything on the altar of total transparency. Transparency is a means to the greater end of execution, it is not the end. This HBR […]
7 Steps To Maximize Your Success As A Leader
I read probably 30 of these type posts a week trying to develop as a leader personally and find best practices for the people I coach. Usually, there are a few goods points and some that are not as helpful. This Forbes post by Christine Comaford is really good and well worth the read: “While […]
Why Do We Fight For What We Don’t Want
This post by Celinne Da Costa is challenging to read and even more dangerous to live. She is pushing back against living your life by the script that the American Dream culture has handed you. If indeed we are going to have to fight for something, then why can’t it be something that we care […]
The Value Of Character
Simply put everything you eventually accomplish in life will be based upon you personal leadership DNA. What you do is based upon who you are. Someone has well said: ability may get you to the top but it takes character to keep you there. If you do not believe that then just ask the former […]
Time To Shut Up And Listen
This phrase is not only the title for one of the chapters in Mark DeMoss’s book The Little Red Book Of Wisdom but it is also incredibly good advice. To make his point he uses the confirmation hearings of Justice Samuel Alito where most senators spent almost all of their allotted thirty minutes for asking […]