An acquaintance of mine asked if we are using my book Salvaged to help the new Leadership Institute at PathLight. As it turns out they are using it, and we had a fun conversation about…
Rarely does an email from a company capture my attention. Most are self-serving, safe, and dull. But Shawn Parr of the marketing firm Bulldog Drummond does it differently. He makes sure the emails from his…
Make a small bet. It’s an organizational maxim meaning to test an idea or run an experiment on a small scale before investing significant time or money. It’s a great practice that has saved me…
Please don’t call me a thought leader. Last week I had coffee with an acquaintance who used the phrase to describe me. He meant it as a compliment — and I took it as such….
If you haven’t picked up a copy of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s new book Leadership: In Turbulent Times then I highly recommend it. I’m currently reading it and can’t put it down (okay, so I’m actually listening…
In my upcoming book Salvaged there’s a chapter focused on the power of asking good questions. A recent question I asked of a young man who wanted to be mentored is a case in point….
A simple way to broaden your leadership impact is to give your team the opportunity to be wrong. The old mantra “you learn from your mistakes” can be taken to an extreme of course —…
Hopefully we can all agree that ownership matters to the success or failure of an endeavor. But I think we still undervalue the importance of ownership. You may have heard the old maxim, “Leadership casts…