Want to be a better leader? Reach inside yourself and connect more dots
“The hallmark of expertise is no longer how much you know. It's how well you synthesize. "Information scarcity rewarded knowledge acquisition. Information abundance requires pattern recognition. "It's not enough to collect facts. The future belongs to those who...
3 actions to help you stay relevant and deal with uncertainty
How do I stay relevant? When my clients, including coachees, asked me that question 10, 15, and even 20 years ago, we’d talk about how they could gain new skills, knowledge, and experiences to apply to their work. Now when individuals ask me about staying relevant, my...
Can ‘mirrors, windows and sliding glass doors’ help leaders be more authentic?
What leaders can learn about authenticity from children's books? Ever since being exposed to the scholar Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop's 1990 groundbreaking essay "Mirrors, Windows and Sliding Glass Doors," I've been blown away by the power of this metaphor. Dr. Bishop...
Be inefficient! Use a “clean sheet” to improve 3 leadership practices
Effective. Efficient. For years these two words have been closely linked, even with their different meanings and applications. In his classic book, The Effective Executive, Peter Drucker explained that “efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the...
Want to reduce work culture clashes? Try getting opposing mindsets to meet
How do you get job candidates as well as leaders transferring to a different company location to fully grasp the culture they’ll experience in their new job? A company culture is intangible, not something you can see or touch. It’s something you feel based on how you...
10 ways to work with senior leaders with a fixed mindset
Are you experiencing this too? Are you finding yourself having to work with senior leaders who are stuck, bogged down in details, sometimes more concerned about proving themselves "right" than improving the situation, and similar types of difficult behaviors? Well,...
Want a new superpower to work smarter? Learn how to tap into others’ wisdom
Asking and answering questions comes naturally to @MarceltheTherapyDog as well to us humans. Marcel doesn’t talk though; instead, he gestures with his head and front paws and occasionally barks to make requests. As for answering questions, he responds by positioning...
Dealing with extreme overload? Try these coping tips to make your life easier and better
“Summertime, and the livin’ is easy” – the quintessential song that generally captures this season’s mood. Yet I’m not feeling it, even as “fish are jumping and the cotton is high” in the Charleston, SC region where I now live. Instead, I’m preoccupied with my heavy...
Be kind to your brain: Choose “multi-purposing” over multitasking
This is my plea to try multi-purposing instead of multitasking. Yes, it's tempting to multitask, but it's bad for your brain and the quality of the work you're trying to do. When you rapidly switch between two complex tasks, such as participating in a meeting and...
