This I believe

Effective Leadership matters:  it is often the difference between an organization winning or losing.  

Effective Leadership is not the product of chance.  Would-be Leaders shoul...

Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!

You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout

Till you have drench’d our steeples, drown’d the cocks!

You sulphurous and thought-executing fires,

Vaunt-couri...

Right now, I bet you’re scrambling.  

As a Leader, you’re working like a fiend to close out your Team’s commitments for 2024.  Year-end financial close is around the corner.  You’re likely sprinti...

So, congratulations!

You’ve just gotten your first leadership role and you’re meeting your new team for the first time.

And there you are, looking into their expectant faces, it hits you: swee...

So, why the eBook . . .

I Coach and Consult with Junior Leaders, Senior Executives and all levels in between.  Pretty much every Leader new to a role worries about the same thing, irrespective of ...

Hard to believe, but the business world is already deep into the 4th Quarter.  If you’re like a lot of Leaders I know, you’re working hard to deliver on this year’s commitments. 

If you’re like a lot...

Humbug, Barnyard Epithets & Leadership Communication: RIP Harry Frankfurt

Something I’ve done for years around the holiday season is to give a book to teams I’ve led.

The gift would be a work I’d re...

Change in vision and strategy are part of organizational life: the market ensures statis leads to irrelevance.

When it comes to change, Effective Leaders can answer the questions: “is my team with me...