Look, Boss, I’m All Grown Up!
One thing I enjoy about leading teams is finding young people with potential and helping them grow into great leaders. Unfortunately, I’ve witnessed a lot of capable young leaders...
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Who You Gonna Pick?
People get promoted. They leave for another job at another company. They make a lateral move for another job at the same company. They retire. And yet, when it’s inevitably...
How Underdogs Become Leaders
Like most everyone else who follows the Triple Crown races, I was rooting for California Chrome to win the Belmont Stakes this past weekend. I like that he started...
4 Things Your Team Wants from You
This week I had the joy of meeting a young leader who has done a great job developing her career. If you’ve followed this blog long then you know...
How to Identify and Develop Your Hi-Po Employees
Quit worrying about finding the smartest people. Stop searching for the perfect employees – the ones who have it all figured out, can work unsupervised, and demand little time...
Leading from the Front
I’d like to introduce today’s guest blogger, my son-in-law Danny McCarthy. He recently graduated from Officer Candidate School and experienced some great leadership opportunities. Of course, I did what...
Toddler Rules for Negotiating with Your Leader
Sometimes our efforts to negotiate with our leader lead us feeling about as fruitless and frustrated as the adorable toddler in this viral video.
Polished vs. Authentic
I had coffee with a young emerging leader this week. She is learning leadership by the bootstraps (the best way in my opinion). During our conversation she said, “sometimes...
Leaders Are in the Weed Wacking Business!
Getting “out of the weeds” is probably one of the most coached subjects I have with executives. It is when a leader gets too involved with the details of...
Top 5 Things New Leaders Should Know
Should the principles of leadership change over time? Should each new generation of leaders redefine what leading is? It is my belief that the principles should not, and need not,...