When you enter into a conversation with strongly opposing views, how do you stay neutral? For me, it means I need to suspend what I know and believe during that conversation. The process of suspension means I hold my assumptions, beliefs and opinions out for examination with a willingness to be influenced. The critical words… View Article
Questions are a leader’s most powerful tool. When you lead well, you learn to ask more than tell. There’s a distinction between teaching and leading. For the team, they can become blurred when the leader blurs those lines. Teaching means showing, telling, correcting, learning, and generating. Leading is involved, but the outcome is clear: transition… View Article
Benjamin Franklin said, “tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” How many times do we as leaders tell or teach people and land in frustration when those we’ve told or taught don’t execute in the way we’d expected? If I was a betting person, I’d say it’s… View Article
How do you find the ideas that matter most? You need to have thinking time. Intentionally setting time to combine the ideas that matter most and connecting them in ways that are both actionable and new offers new opportunities everywhere. Too often, we settle for top of mind thinking. I see this weekly with teams… View Article
Often, when working with clients I tell them “less is more” or “do less better.” These two phrases are the bane of most entrepreneurs’ existence as we have an internal drive to do more sooner and often at the expense of doing more focused work on the “right” priorities. One team (representative of many teams)… View Article
Every situation in life is transitory. We fall into a sort of comfort with life at times thinking it should be occurring according to our plans. When we can embrace and accept the changes with grace, we become nimble, creative, and resourceful. When we bristle, thinking life should occur on our terms, we are disappointed… View Article
Let me become a student of what’s possible. And let me become a student of what’s in the way. As the book says, the obstacle is the way. The question to ask is, “how do I become the kind of person to expect those results? What will it require of me: in my thinking, in… View Article
How do you define success? We all measure it differently. Some say, it’s completing something, and you’d sign up to do it again. Others measure in money, material wealth, possessions, and stuff. Others measure by the accolades and awards they collect, and some measure relationships. How many and the quality are up to the person. … View Article
Have you ever started a day and it went to hell before you were an hour into it? Me too. I bet you’ve also had days where you awakened and felt like you could do nothing wrong, and within an hour you’d determined it could be one of the best days of your life. Me… View Article
I’m asking myself a question these days which moves me in much more certain directions. It’s become the mantra I need at this time in my life and in business. The question is clarifying. It helps me say “no” much more confidently. Saying no has created space and confidence as more and more situations are… View Article