Psychological safety. Most modern business leaders now consider it a necessary element in the workplace, not just a "nice to have." Yet as the Forbes Coaches Council noted, "Some C-suite leaders hold misconceptions about how to foster an environment where team members...

How are you coping with your own fears, as well as helping your team members and colleagues manage their fears, worries, and anxieties? This isn't just about AI, although AI can quickly trigger feelings of fear as I recently observed while listening to one of the...

Growing up in Tulsa, Okla. my parents, my two younger siblings and I were the neighborhood oddballs. Both of my parents had college degrees. My mother was Jewish. My dad didn’t drive to work; instead, he took the bus and then later rode his bike. We grew our own...

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...