Brace yourself. The upcoming year is an election year, and we will all be bombarded with the question, “are you better off today than when the incumbent took office?” Frankly, it is good to do an accountability assessment on occasions. Given we are approaching the end of another year, how would you rate your own [Read More]
The Commitment Issue
November 2, 2023 by Leave a Comment
The generations are at it again in the workplace. I constantly hear managers complain that their younger workers just don’t seem nearly as committed to work as the previous generations were. They cite how so many of those workers seem to think that work is just going through the motions. If a major deadline is [Read More]
How Can I Help
September 5, 2023 by Leave a Comment
How Can I Help?” is an important opportunity for true leaders. I hope that you will think about and consider this question. Real leaders understand what “How can I help” means and they do it! This month’s thoughts are from Tom Heuer, former professor at Miami University and longtime leadership thinker. Tom and I have [Read More]
Change and Credibility
August 4, 2023 by Leave a Comment
You need to be aware of how constant change can impact your credibility as a leader. Think about how change typically occurs in the workplace. Day one, leadership announces some rather significant change the organization will be undergoing. They explain it as best they can, including the reasons it is necessary. There is the usual [Read More]
Are You at Your Best
July 3, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Greetings Leaders, Time for a little mid-year reflection. Looking back over the past few weeks, is there a time that stands out for you when you felt as if you were truly leading at your best? That would be a time when you were very aware of and deliberate in your leadership and things seemed [Read More]
Are You Believable
May 29, 2023 by Leave a Comment
Greetings Leaders I always thought the purpose of news organizations was to report the news rather than make the news. It is usually not a good thing when one of them becomes the lead story. Fox News was recently the headline grabber when it settled its defamation case with Dominion Voting Systems for a reported [Read More]
A Caution About Work
March 31, 2023 by Leave a Comment
It seems there are very few things we know for sure, but I am going to offer up something which you will likely agree is one of those sure things. It is the “fact” that it is virtually impossible to get all of your work done in any given day. There is always something else [Read More]
Changing Expectations of Leaders
February 6, 2023 by Leave a Comment
During my 30 plus year career working in leadership development, there have been a couple of admired characteristics which high percentages of people continually said they looked for in their leaders. They are Forward-Looking and Inspiring. It makes sense, doesn’t it? After all, leaders are people who step up to take us to places we [Read More]
A Most Common Daily Mistake
December 1, 2022 by Leave a Comment
People will often share with me that they wish they had more time to think about the future and be a more intentional leader. I remember talking with one fellow about it and asked him what prevented him from finding the time. I really appreciated his answer. He did not say that his time was [Read More]
Dig Below The Surface
November 7, 2022 by Leave a Comment
Greetings Leaders, A couple of weeks ago, I had an arborist come out to look at one of my trees. By mid-summer, its leaves were starting to turn brown and fall off, much earlier than normal. The arborist dug down below the surface and found what is called a girdling root. That is a root [Read More]
