It was my own fault. Whenever I looked in the mirror, the person staring back at me was the one responsible for all my work distractions, occurring multiple times an hour. I never counted the number, but it was a lot, especially with my cell phone nestled next to my...

Whenever you're planning to invest time, energy, and money into leadership development, make sure you choose wisely. Namely, go with vertical development over horizontal development, which helps leaders as well as those they lead. Vertical development helps...

“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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...