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It’s No Good Without Execution

I am sitting on a plane headed back to Texas and all I can think about is how incredibly hard we sometimes make things for ourselves in terms of executing for results. After leaving a client’s office yesterday I shared the frustration of my client and how hard his company made it for him and [&h

The Clock Watching Conundrum

I read a Fortune article today titled: Fantasy football could cost businesses $13.4 billion a season– the article cited a study that 18 million fantasy football players spend two hours per workweek managing their make-believe teams. My question is, if employers could somehow figure out a way to

The Courage of a Leader (Mom)

Life is full of opportunities to learn lessons about leadership, one only has to stop long enough to reflect and seek them out. Periodically I actually practice what I preach and did just that. While prepping for a development session with a small team of professionals I intended to ask them to iden

Control Without Being Controlling!

I think many times executives confuse the definition of “control.” When we do 360 interviews we are often told that an executive is a “control freak” or “too controlling,” but when we provide the executive the feedback received they have trouble understanding where the feedback comes fro

Put on Your Mask First

So much of leadership development these days focuses on what the leader does for other people. One big thing missing, in my opinion, is what the leader needs to do for him or herself first. Put on their mask first! If you fly regularly you likely know the flight attendant’s speech as wel