Create Your Time Oasis
Many are discovering that today’s life and work-style takes them to a “time desert” where they feel they have no time, no choice, and their world is compressed. We can either endure the desert or look to create our own “time oases” in our lives. What is a Time Oasis?...
Take Your Leadership to the Next Level – Part 2
In the first post of "Take Your Leadership to the Next Level," we introduced the idea of Leadership Context, as a way to begin shifting how we see what leadership is, and how to become an effective leader. A part of creating context is identifying our cares and those...
Me, We, World – Meaning and Value in Organizations
ME. Step 1. What does it mean to become your best self? To tap into your aliveness, vitality, and power? The path to the possible is not written by your past but is illuminated by your care. To open this dimension of “ME,” we invite you to begin to ask yourself the...
The Biggest Lie of the MBA
Just like the emperor with no clothes, many MBA programs wear the clothes of leadership through their marketing, but that leadership is invisible without the corresponding development of new skills. There is an approach that addresses that gap.
Trust Matters and Matters of Trust
Trust is crucial to success and is the very medium of human interaction and coordination. We share the future with those we trust, and we withdraw from, avoid, put up with, blame, resent, or compensate with a cost for those we don’t. Trust is crucial for effective...
How to Elevate Your Leadership Impact by Getting Out of the Blind Spot
How to Cultivate a Culture of Excellence
What is your relationship with excellence? Are you never satisfied? Is mediocrity good enough? Is it a source of satisfaction or suffering for you and those around you? How does the culture you work in hold excellence? Does excellence disappear due to the demand for...
Tap Into Your Power of Not Knowing – Create New Possibilities
What is your relationship with “not knowing?” For most people, it’s a barrier. It means that we are stopped and can’t act where we don’t know. We wouldn’t have a person do surgery on us if they didn’t know surgery. So why would we pursue something if we don’t know...
How to Walk Your Path to Leadership Mastery
One of the paths of leadership leads to mastery. Is this your path? How do you know this is your path? Leadership is a journey, not just a state of authority, and authority is not the final destination. Rather, it is the beginning. Where do you go from there?...
The Human Roots of Successful Business
What makes a business successful? What are the roots of success? And how does this success correlate to the people in the business and to the relationship of the business with its customers? What are the human roots of a successful business? We often hear of CEO’s and...