Gaining Leadership Control: One Simple Thing

Most every busy leader longs for some magic wand that will help them simplify the monstrosity that is their life and role.   Wouldn’t it be great if there was one simple thing any leader could do to stimulate a positive team culture, deepen the bonds between teammates, and create a “virtuous circle” of effective group [...]

3 Leadership Lessons that Steve Jobs Never Learned

Imagine the potential Steve Jobs had if he had been a Leader… A quick Google search will return descriptive words for Steve Jobs, who passed away the evening of October 5th, 2011. Genius Visionary Perfectionist Hard-driving executive Brilliant Creative Master Showman Cult Hero Co-founder Without a doubt, there is something quite amazing about watching someone [...]

RockStar Leader: Playing From the Same Sheet of Music

Having played in many rock bands, I can tell you that when you start a band, everyone has similar goals. “We want to be rock stars!” “We want our music to change the world!” “We want to be on the cover of Rolling Stone!” “We want to be rich and famous!”   Making Beautiful Music What’s [...]

Importance of Consistent Leadership

Whether it’s personally or professionally, most people are leaders in some capacity, yet few people see themselves as a leader. Now, think for a moment that your leadership qualities and capabilities were on display for the world to see each and every day? How consistent would you be as a leader?  How much more difficult [...]

How to Lead an Adversarial Peer

Have you ever experience an office situation where regular interpersonal discord, or even daily combative behaviour was the order of the day? If so, how did you deal with it? Did you do something to resolve the nagging situation? Did you work at ending the agitation? Or did you leave it alone and hope that it [...]

Blankity-Blank-Blank Nerves!!

Nerves! Those blankity-blank-blank nerves! Yes, you heard me.  Nerves.  Those darn nerves!  Always around, never a dull moment: “nerves” have gotten the best of us and promoted the worst of us.  Leadership isn’t leadership without nerves, is it. I have a close relationship with nerves.  My nerves, other people’s nerves, high nerves, low nerves… the [...]

The Exceptional Strength of Followership

This month marks a remarkable time in all of our lives. It doesn’t matter where you live, how you were raised, or which side of any current news-story you are on, these are remarkable times! It seems that we have opened this decade with a torrent of “worst-that-could-happen” news.  In fact, the USA political, social, and economic [...]

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