Feeling threatened by AI? You’re not alone
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...
Want to rewire your brain for positive change? Try two new tools
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...
Are you easily distracted? Time to practice “attention span hygiene”
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...
3 actions to help you develop vertically and better manage complexity
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...
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...