Making Lives Better By Building Better Leaders

I thought I would share the questions that the participants had on their mind about leadership and my responses.     Does the perfect leader...

It is a big week on my side of the Internet: my new book – ‘You Can’t Lead From Behind’ – is being shipped from the publishers. What is it a...

‘Time is the only finite resource.’ Simon Sinek (https://www.startwithwhy.com/)  ‘Many people are silently begging to be led.’ Jay Abraham (h...

General: “Where are you from son?”  Soldier states with great pride: “Madison City, Missouri. Sir!”  General: “Never heard of it.”  The...

Do you assign most of the work you need doing to teams? When you examine the output from these teams is examined, there are few measurable results.  ...

What is the one thing you need to turn a trusting team into a high performing team? Most people want to be part of something big! But how do you get t...

I have received hundreds of performance reviews over my career. There is one that sticks in my mind. It wasn’t remarkable because of the content...

Sabre-toothed Tigers in the Office   The ability to think intellectually and rationally is driven by the frontal lobe of our brain. When things are r...

Trust is a funny and fleeting thing. It is the cornerstone of all relationships. The shocking thing is that trust, more often than not, is based on th...

We have a Mission and a Vision. Now What? I recently had lunch with a client, and we were talking through what he described as a dysfunctional leaders...

Why bark if you have a good dog?  A Company Commander – when asked if he wanted to address the troops – said, “why bark if you have a good dog?...